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Tom Alteen 🫐
@bearingedgestudio.bsky.social
Tom Alteen, #MBA, BVocEd, DIT, Husband, Father, #Drummer, #Tech #Videography #Photography #Geek, #MartialArtist, and #eBike Rider. I want a #holodeck! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🎥 📷 🥁 🎸 🥋 🚴🏻‍♂️ 🇨🇦

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Website: www.bearingedgestudio.com

#TeamCanada
#Hiking

Today I hiked to the City of St. John's water supply in Shea Heights, NL. It is approximately 5k round trip.

Wonderful sunny day at 7 degrees C.

Peaceful . . .
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#PanDo #Bread

In Japanese, "Pan" = "Bread"
and "Do" = "The Way."

I always wanted to learn how to make bread. So once a week, I have started making bread items.

Last week I made traditional pan-fried bread. Today I made Newfie "Toutons" with a drizzle of molasses and a side of bologna. Yum!
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#SpiritualSunday

In the 2006 BBC Robin Hood TV series Robin (Jonas Armstrong) says:

"For every man there is a purpose which he sets up in his life. Let yours be the doing of all good deeds."

Robin attributes the quote to The Qur’an. I've not been able to find the quote but very nice words.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yes!
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#ThoughtfulTuesday

“Were are all just walking each other Home . . . “
- Ram Dass
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#Hiking #KentsPond

Nice walk around Kent's Pond, St. John's.

People have been stashing painted rocks around the trail. Great scavenger hunt. So the idea is basically that you can keep or transport the rocks to other locations, e.g. other trails, parks, etc.

Also found a tree with a big heart.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#ElbowsUp #TeamCanada

So you are probably wondering why, as a Canadian, I am sharing pictures of "No Kings Day" in the US.

I normally "stay in my lane," so to speak, but I have family, friends, and colleagues in the US as do many Canadians.
I think it is important to bear witness. The world sees.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nice day to be out-and-about--21 degrees C.
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#ThoughtfulTuesday

“If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.”
- Neil Peart
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The "Frankenstein" kit I played at Ashley's Big Ben's Pub on Saturday night.
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just met this guy at a local restaurant. He just finished biking from BC to NL!

Nice fellow too.
September 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#TeamCanada #ElbowsUp

"Living next to you [US] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt . . . "
- Pierre Trudeau
September 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Nice walk around Quidi Vidi, St. John's, NL. (Very Zen.)

O yasuminasai,
August 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
#RenFest2025

A couple of cool pics from the St. John's Renaissance Festival.
August 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great day for a walk.

(Gull Pond, NL)
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I am pumped for the Crosstown Traffic 2025 Reunion in Corner Brook, NL. ‪@crosstowntraffic.bsky.social‬

See for details:
alteen-home-network.ca/crosstown/bu...
August 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So now I have all these AI bots wanting to befriend me, i.e. desktop software/browsers, mobile apps, Rabbit r1 . . . I've never been so popular. 🤣
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#Biking

Here are a few pictures from my recent bike trip to Seal Cove
July 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Next I took a step further to ask AI ArtSpace for an ultra-realistic picture of Jesus based on The Shroud. The result is the haunting picture attached. The picture depicts Christ as being somewhat emaciated, as he would have been after the torture.

Other interpretation:
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
July 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So this evening I watched a documentary regarding the "Shroud of Turin."

So I asked Microsoft Copilot to create a picture of Jesus based on the Shroud.

It is as attached--amazing technology!
July 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#Foxtrap #Biking

A few pics from my bike trip to Foxtrap, NL.
July 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#MotivationalMonday

"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."
- Confucius
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#ThoughtfulThursday

A comforting fortune I recently received.
July 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Drumming for Rebel Tide last night at The Black Sheep on George Street, St. John's, NL.

Photo by Christopher Deacon.

More photos are available at:

alteen-home-network.ca/rebeltide/bl...
July 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM