Mt A ‘83. Outdoor guy, Maths teacher. Love photography, driving anywhere & listening to music. Insta @patgrew. https://nitter.cf/t.co/wuq5Jvbcrj
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Pat Grew retweeted
Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."
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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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Today, the calendar makes a right triangle, for the last time this century.
This Saturday is October 24, 2026.
Write it as 10/24/26 or 24/10/26, and the same beautiful relationship appears:
10² + 24² = 26²
100 + 576 = 676
But here’s what makes today special.
There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples. Only a handful fit our calendar.
Using the rule
month² + day² = (last two digits of the year)²,
the month cannot exceed 12, and the day cannot exceed 31. Those small limits leave exactly 12 qualifying dates in this century.
Today is the last.
The next will be March 4, 2105:
3² + 4² = 5²
That is a wait of more than 78 years.
An infinite family of triangles. Just twelve appearances on a century’s calendar.
Happy Pythagorean Triple Day.
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This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere.
Heart, not policy papers.
Love, not hate.
Hope, not fear.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
To those who are up on branding …
X is still Twitter.
Oil sands is still tar sands.
SI will always be AI.
In a line @TimHortons here in town when a food delivery person (skip, Uber Eats, D-Dash, or the like) entered and “Skipped” to the front of the line showing their phone. The cashier stopped taking my order and spent 5 min preparing the delivery order. I expressed my thoughts.
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🚒 If you’re in the west end and are smelling a heavy acrid smell, that’s from a vehicle fire on Midland Ave.
Sen Susan Collins of Maine says she wants 🇨🇦 to get back to the #trade bargaining table with 🇺🇸. BUT, you can tell she doesn’t mean it, she didn’t even stop walking as she rambled her words into a reporters mic who was trying to keep the pace. #bettermanners
