Q. Pheevr
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“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.”
“Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.”
Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they
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“Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.”
Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they
http://q.pheevr.ca
If you think the first word after a colon in a title should be capitalized, then by all means, use a .bst file that does that when it’s up to you. But don’t put braces in your .bib file to override OUR .bst file, because I’m just going to have to take them out.
#AmEditing
#LaTeX #BibTeX
#AmEditing
#LaTeX #BibTeX
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you think the first word after a colon in a title should be capitalized, then by all means, use a .bst file that does that when it’s up to you. But don’t put braces in your .bib file to override OUR .bst file, because I’m just going to have to take them out.
#AmEditing
#LaTeX #BibTeX
#AmEditing
#LaTeX #BibTeX
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Bud: Guess who’s back?
Lou: Yes.
Bud: No, not Yes.
Lou: Yes, they are.
Bud: No, the Guess Who’s back.
Lou: That’s what I said.
Bud: No, you said Yes was back.
Lou: Who?
Bud: No, Yes.
Lou: Make up your mind!
Lou: Yes.
Bud: No, not Yes.
Lou: Yes, they are.
Bud: No, the Guess Who’s back.
Lou: That’s what I said.
Bud: No, you said Yes was back.
Lou: Who?
Bud: No, Yes.
Lou: Make up your mind!
Interrupting my pause with some #CanCon news: www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Bud: Guess who’s back?
Lou: Yes.
Bud: No, not Yes.
Lou: Yes, they are.
Bud: No, the Guess Who’s back.
Lou: That’s what I said.
Bud: No, you said Yes was back.
Lou: Who?
Bud: No, Yes.
Lou: Make up your mind!
Lou: Yes.
Bud: No, not Yes.
Lou: Yes, they are.
Bud: No, the Guess Who’s back.
Lou: That’s what I said.
Bud: No, you said Yes was back.
Lou: Who?
Bud: No, Yes.
Lou: Make up your mind!
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The clock just ticked over to Edmund Fitzgerald day. Here are the Rheostatics.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Rheostatics - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The clock just ticked over to Edmund Fitzgerald day. Here are the Rheostatics.
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N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce «dizante-seize» sauf chez les Belges où c'est «onzante-six».
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce «dizante-seize» sauf chez les Belges où c'est «onzante-six».
Thruppence a pint? Eat your heart out, Doug Ford!
At thruppence a pint, it's going to be a very merry Christmas. Beer, stout or brown ale? I might get all three!!
Nov 1973: Beer Equipment Kits ad from Boots
(+Beer Kit; Home Brewed Beers and Stouts book; and Hand Crown Corker)
«Big Christmas savings on Boots Beermaking Kits NOW!»
(+Beer Kit; Home Brewed Beers and Stouts book; and Hand Crown Corker)
«Big Christmas savings on Boots Beermaking Kits NOW!»
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thruppence a pint? Eat your heart out, Doug Ford!
Omg! @ryannorth.ca is on Because News!
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Omg! @ryannorth.ca is on Because News!
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Pestilence
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Famine
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Pestilence
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Famine
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Pestilence
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Famine
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Pestilence
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Famine
The season for fresh local berries isn’t over; it’s just moved on to cran.
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The season for fresh local berries isn’t over; it’s just moved on to cran.
So, signing the Dal waiver for I 💡 HFX seems to involve booking a (free) ticket through some company called Bounce. They want a name, e-mail address, and phone number—okay, fine. But they don’t like my phone number. 🙄
www.bouncelife.com/events/68f65...
www.bouncelife.com/events/68f65...
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
So, signing the Dal waiver for I 💡 HFX seems to involve booking a (free) ticket through some company called Bounce. They want a name, e-mail address, and phone number—okay, fine. But they don’t like my phone number. 🙄
www.bouncelife.com/events/68f65...
www.bouncelife.com/events/68f65...
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@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science).
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science).
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
Elvis Costello – Check Out My Camera
Alanis Morissette – Oops, Forgot to Advance the Film
The Cranberries – This Loveseat Ain’t Big Enough for the Four of Us
The Cranberries – Neither Is This One
Alanis Morissette – Oops, Forgot to Advance the Film
The Cranberries – This Loveseat Ain’t Big Enough for the Four of Us
The Cranberries – Neither Is This One
If famous rock albums were named literally after their cover art:
They Might Be Giants - Whale v. Squid
Talking Heads - Red Faces
Pink Floyd - Pig Between the Chimneys
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
Queen - Death by Giant Robot
Nirvana - Baby Swims For Money
The Velvet Underground - Banana
They Might Be Giants - Whale v. Squid
Talking Heads - Red Faces
Pink Floyd - Pig Between the Chimneys
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
Queen - Death by Giant Robot
Nirvana - Baby Swims For Money
The Velvet Underground - Banana
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Elvis Costello – Check Out My Camera
Alanis Morissette – Oops, Forgot to Advance the Film
The Cranberries – This Loveseat Ain’t Big Enough for the Four of Us
The Cranberries – Neither Is This One
Alanis Morissette – Oops, Forgot to Advance the Film
The Cranberries – This Loveseat Ain’t Big Enough for the Four of Us
The Cranberries – Neither Is This One
Y’know, it’s okay to just repeat the noun phrases you used before instead of using “the former” and “the latter” to point back to them—especially if the original noun phrases are actually *shorter* than three syllables each.
#AmEditing
#AmEditing
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Y’know, it’s okay to just repeat the noun phrases you used before instead of using “the former” and “the latter” to point back to them—especially if the original noun phrases are actually *shorter* than three syllables each.
#AmEditing
#AmEditing
I don’t actually believe in an afterlife, but it’s fun to picture Dick Cheney in the pit of Hell, undergoing ‘enhanced interrogation’ by various gleeful demons and looking down in dismay at the Trump administration from the relative moral high ground.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I don’t actually believe in an afterlife, but it’s fun to picture Dick Cheney in the pit of Hell, undergoing ‘enhanced interrogation’ by various gleeful demons and looking down in dismay at the Trump administration from the relative moral high ground.
oh god what if this game goes to extra innings and they’re still playing when it’s time to fall back. feels like it’d open a portal to something
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is not at all how I pictured Jordan Baker when I read The Great Gatsby.
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is not at all how I pictured Jordan Baker when I read The Great Gatsby.
I understand that diplomacy sometimes requires making nice with people who are not nice. But I’d really rather our PM didn’t apologize to that whiny nazi piece of shit for something someone else did that wasn’t even wrong.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Did Carney apologize to Trump for Ontario's anti-tariff ad?
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he personally apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump after Ontario’s anti-tariff ad aired — and told Premier Doug Ford he was against it.
www.cbc.ca
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I understand that diplomacy sometimes requires making nice with people who are not nice. But I’d really rather our PM didn’t apologize to that whiny nazi piece of shit for something someone else did that wasn’t even wrong.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Came out of the grocery store to find a cluster of people around the bike racks looking nerdily at their smartphones. Apparently I parked in the middle of a PokéStop.
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Came out of the grocery store to find a cluster of people around the bike racks looking nerdily at their smartphones. Apparently I parked in the middle of a PokéStop.
This is the best thing about November:¹
¹Please don’t tell my sister I said that, because her birthday is later this month.
¹Please don’t tell my sister I said that, because her birthday is later this month.
It's November! Time for the 6th annual #LyricsPrompt!
If you don't want your feed clogged with excellent music, please mute this hashtag for the month.
Here's how it works 👇
If you don't want your feed clogged with excellent music, please mute this hashtag for the month.
Here's how it works 👇
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is the best thing about November:¹
¹Please don’t tell my sister I said that, because her birthday is later this month.
¹Please don’t tell my sister I said that, because her birthday is later this month.
Cube, shmube (Jakobson & Lotz 1949).
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Cube, shmube (Jakobson & Lotz 1949).
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Its existence has been confirmed by a reliable eye witness. The logo was supposedly added during the 1990s renovation after the Jays 1993 success. Actual creator still a rumour
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Its existence has been confirmed by a reliable eye witness. The logo was supposedly added during the 1990s renovation after the Jays 1993 success. Actual creator still a rumour
Note to FedEx: The United States is not a language. (It’s barely even a country anymore.)
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Note to FedEx: The United States is not a language. (It’s barely even a country anymore.)
Last day of the season at wildwoodwatersports.ca
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Last day of the season at wildwoodwatersports.ca