Christopher Solar 🇨🇦
@christophersolar.bsky.social
Furniture designer/maker, cyclist, inside the Ottawa bubble. He/Him.
"Actually, Dave..."
[prolonged fart noise]
[prolonged fart noise]
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Actually, Dave..."
[prolonged fart noise]
[prolonged fart noise]
Bad enough to try to solve the problem by throwing law enforcement at it, but paying $1M for some rent-a-cop mall security? It's beyond satire. Dear god I hope he's gone next election.
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Bad enough to try to solve the problem by throwing law enforcement at it, but paying $1M for some rent-a-cop mall security? It's beyond satire. Dear god I hope he's gone next election.
did you have a cricket bat?
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
did you have a cricket bat?
I can't help but imagine this through a Spinal Tap lens.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can't help but imagine this through a Spinal Tap lens.
Oh, so having a few unpainted window frames here and there is some kind of crime now is it?
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Oh, so having a few unpainted window frames here and there is some kind of crime now is it?
"juice" is being generous
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"juice" is being generous
If the skate fits...
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If the skate fits...
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
Nature is healing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nature is healing.
It just takes one snitch though. And there will be at least one. (Probably BIA-affiliated.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It just takes one snitch though. And there will be at least one. (Probably BIA-affiliated.)
[turns page eagerly]
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
[turns page eagerly]
OTOH if they install them this way, lying across the road, they might actually have an impact.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
OTOH if they install them this way, lying across the road, they might actually have an impact.
Some food sites are worse than others of course, but most have a way to get straight to the recipe. I used to get recipes from Fine Cooking mag (RIP) but I had to pay money for it AND flip past pages of ads to get to the recipes...
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some food sites are worse than others of course, but most have a way to get straight to the recipe. I used to get recipes from Fine Cooking mag (RIP) but I had to pay money for it AND flip past pages of ads to get to the recipes...
Have been mulling this over and while I've also been annoyed at long-winded food blogs, is it really a legit critique? Someone's made this recipe for me, explained how to do it, took photos, maybe made a video. It's a job. Should I complain that they want to scrape some revenue from the page?
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Have been mulling this over and while I've also been annoyed at long-winded food blogs, is it really a legit critique? Someone's made this recipe for me, explained how to do it, took photos, maybe made a video. It's a job. Should I complain that they want to scrape some revenue from the page?
You do at least acknowledge that this tool is only able to do these things for you because it has been trained on the work of countless human recipe developers who now get diddly squat in return?
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You do at least acknowledge that this tool is only able to do these things for you because it has been trained on the work of countless human recipe developers who now get diddly squat in return?
I really don't get the anger here. Someone has taken the time to develop, test, photograph a dish & how to make it. Ad revenue on the page is what funded that whole process! Now what happens?
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I really don't get the anger here. Someone has taken the time to develop, test, photograph a dish & how to make it. Ad revenue on the page is what funded that whole process! Now what happens?
If you are an experienced cook, yes, you'll probably spot a disastrous AI-generated error and know how to get around it. Not everyone would! A real recipe *developed, tested and published* by a trusted human cook is not likely to have disastrous errors in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you are an experienced cook, yes, you'll probably spot a disastrous AI-generated error and know how to get around it. Not everyone would! A real recipe *developed, tested and published* by a trusted human cook is not likely to have disastrous errors in the first place.
You'll take cooking possibly inedible food over having to click the "jump to recipe" button? Also, good luck when all the human recipe-creators are driven out of business.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You'll take cooking possibly inedible food over having to click the "jump to recipe" button? Also, good luck when all the human recipe-creators are driven out of business.
Oh, it's definitely been front-of-mind for me how my local main street is going to be clogged again with the lethal mix of dump trucks and concrete trucks, again, for years, for no good reason.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Oh, it's definitely been front-of-mind for me how my local main street is going to be clogged again with the lethal mix of dump trucks and concrete trucks, again, for years, for no good reason.
Guessing the (current) mayor can't show his face at a Charge game ever again?
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Guessing the (current) mayor can't show his face at a Charge game ever again?
This reads like a deleted scene from "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This reads like a deleted scene from "Bram Stoker's Dracula".