Unsupervised Design

Category: Life 🎉

  • Hurdle 📷
    Today’s big hurdle was trying to resist eating ice cream after eating healthy all day. As they say though, “Resistance is futile”

  • Double 📷
    Some Monday’s you have to double up on the Coffee when you get to work.

  • Spectacle 📷
    Today’s spectacle is napping on the couch

  • Oppose 📷
    Normally I oppose birthday celebrations but today is Raquel’s birthday so I’ll happily celebrate her.

  • Balance 📷
    Today was the annual Acadia Robot Programming competition that I Referee. I arrived to find someone thoughtfully labelled my “standing chair” where I survey the competition.

  • Warmth 📷
    Today the temperature dropped by almost 20 degrees. That calls for evening coffee ☕️

  • Rise 📷
    It’s been 18 months since I worked downtown and I still miss the view of the sunrise from my desk. Home and work both face the west now

  • Today we said goodbye to Hercules.
    It was way sooner than I ever could have imagined but it became clear that no amount of love from us was going to be able to overcome his years of Trauma.
    The wonderful boy is finally at peace.

  • Attachment 📷
    It’s been a bittersweet week but here is Hercules, embodying physical and emotional attachment.

  • Sign 📷
    Friends applied this sign to me as a personal slogan. It’s also the origin of this blog’s name.

  • Lull 📷
    Post breakfast lull and Hugo is making new friends.

  • Above 📷
    That moment when you realize it is time to start the work of the day.

  • Plant 📷
    One of my favourite parts of having planters on the patio in the winter is the small visitors we get after fresh snowfalls.

  • Reflect 📷
    When you get stuck on a hard problem it is important to have a place like the “hammock district” at work to go and reflect on the issue.

  • Sight 📷
    This morning’s first sight is sun beams glistening on the fresh snow

  • Watched the series finale of the Good Place with Raquel last night. What an absolutely perfect ending to a great show.

  • Saturday mornings are for cuddles

  • Open 📷
    Living in a city makes it hard to find open nature spaces. I’m super thankful to live next to a provincial park.

  • Call me a cynic, but it is the time of year again where Bell exploits Mental Health awareness for its own PR gains.
    Thankfully the Beaverton really knocked it out of the park this year
    In all seriousness though, mental health is important and we should talk about it. Let’s just try not to limit it to times when corporations need a tax break.

  • Scaling Beyond Ourselves

    Too often we think only of ourselves and our own experiences, which is reasonable given those are the only ones we have to go on.
    With respect to Software I came across these two posts this weekend that do a great job of reminding you to take a moment and follow your assumptions to their logical conclusion beyond your gut feel.
    – One in a million is next Tuesday
    – Crash Math