Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦

Mickey's Beach!

Damn - although I used to go there pretty regularly, I've not thought about that spot in many years. The boulder problems there were great for teaching humility.

I love mine. Mechanically it's a gem as well.

That's as solid a rule as any known to humankind.

Taylor Glacier's climate is cold enough that it loses ice mainly by sublimation - evaporation of ice to vapour - rather than melt, which is probably why the surface textures are so pronounced there.

We found a pretty good correlation between average wind speed and surface roughness on the glacier.

...and where ice is exposed to consistent strong winds, such as almost everywhere along Taylor Glacier, Antarctica (where I spent two Austral summers back in '02-/'04).

This isn't the greatest picture of the features, but I had it at hand. This was a *very* rare calm-ish day on the glacier.

You find them also in subglacial cavities where water flow, such as here (below Llewellyn Glacier, British Columbia)...

Beautiful! Those features result from fluid flow across the surface; either water or wind will do.

Abraham Lake never misses.

I've been feeling exactly this for eleven years now.

I feel a personal connection to Doug's guitars, as my uncle cut his teeth in lutherie working with Doug back in the '70s at Alembic.

I have a stash of cocobolo set aside for a Tiger tribute, but I'm not ready to build it yet. (And besides, I have a Wolf tribute to build first.)

Well, damn. Here's hoping Tiger doesn't end up in a vault in some private collection, never to be played or seen again.

With that in mind, here’s Logan.

Ah yes, the tandem bicycle - a.k.a. the "divorcycle."

I'm sure it takes perfectly fine pictures, but the ludicrous price here is definitely due to the combination of "Leica" + unobtanium.

holy shit

Those must’ve been wild times.

I’ll always have a soft spot for the ol’ Tiger - we restored one way (way!) back in high school auto shop.

The car is so tiny that the spark plugs for the V8’s rear-most cylinders are accessed through ports in the driver’s and passenger’s footwells.

I get it; we get dark here late enough already for it not to matter much.

It just has no business being almost 2pm already.

Chonker.

We should stick to Standard Time.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

I think you're right (as @ltrytten.bsky.social pointed out earlier). I'd be happy for it to stream there, too!

(I believe the person interviewed on CBC commented that it had originally aired, at odd hours, on CBC - but certainly could have misinterpreted.)

At least nobody's hit the "Buy It Now" button.

(Yet, anyway.)

When I was roadracing and training in Northern California back in the ‘90s, pretty much everyone waived and got a waive back in response.

I’m in a different place now, it’s a different era, and most of my riding is for my daily commute. But I still waive, and nobody *ever* waives back. A sad loss.

Very cool!

Haha, I’d not heard of that incident - but love it!

Listening to Edmonton’s CBC Radio 1, and I’ve just learned that SCTV is going to be re-released.

Unfortunately, it’ll be streaming on Prime, rather than on its proper home: CBC.

Fucking Bezos.

To be fair, that black goo is worth at least $100k on its own.

/s