Andrew Jeanes
@wanderoo.bsky.social
Still trying every day to learn something from the past, survive the present, and figure out how to make a better future. Also, I like trains.
Although frankly I'd suggest being wary of dating this guy too.
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Although frankly I'd suggest being wary of dating this guy too.
I can't help but notice that this guy's account is still up. Double standard much?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I can't help but notice that this guy's account is still up. Double standard much?
Does it feel more like this?
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Does it feel more like this?
That guy needs a dog.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
That guy needs a dog.
Not if this guy has anything to say about it.
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Not if this guy has anything to say about it.
I was twenty-three during the 1998 ice storm. There's a bunch of lore around that time that is just burned into my long-term memory, and the locomotive that CN drove down the street in Boucherville is certainly a big part of that.
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I was twenty-three during the 1998 ice storm. There's a bunch of lore around that time that is just burned into my long-term memory, and the locomotive that CN drove down the street in Boucherville is certainly a big part of that.
This is what I'm watching right now.
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is what I'm watching right now.
There is another hobby that is (usually) much more chill.
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
There is another hobby that is (usually) much more chill.
Love Scherzer giving Springer some kind of shoulder rub at the end of the game tonight.
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Love Scherzer giving Springer some kind of shoulder rub at the end of the game tonight.
For me, personally, the effect was that my great-grandparents Johannes and Jenny Ruuse were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia, where they both died. Their 16 year-old daughter, my grandmother, became a refugee and eventually wound up in Canada, never truly healed from her experience.
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
For me, personally, the effect was that my great-grandparents Johannes and Jenny Ruuse were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia, where they both died. Their 16 year-old daughter, my grandmother, became a refugee and eventually wound up in Canada, never truly healed from her experience.
Another view, from the April 25, 1961 edition of the Spec.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Another view, from the April 25, 1961 edition of the Spec.
You weren't kidding that photos of that building are hard to find online. Here is an image from the May 5, 1961 edition of the Hamilton Spectator, shortly after the building opened.
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You weren't kidding that photos of that building are hard to find online. Here is an image from the May 5, 1961 edition of the Hamilton Spectator, shortly after the building opened.
In Montreal they propped up Christ Church Anglican Cathedral on stilts while they built an underground shopping mall and car park beneath it. This was in 1987.
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In Montreal they propped up Christ Church Anglican Cathedral on stilts while they built an underground shopping mall and car park beneath it. This was in 1987.
Without hesitation, I would re-create this Space Lego scene from the 1985 World Lego Show at Simpsons department store in Montreal. Seeing it was world-changing for ten year-old me.
September 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Without hesitation, I would re-create this Space Lego scene from the 1985 World Lego Show at Simpsons department store in Montreal. Seeing it was world-changing for ten year-old me.
Who doesn't love an impure, jazzy Italian?
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Who doesn't love an impure, jazzy Italian?
Also, I'm pretty sure somebody with centuries-old Sicilian heritage would sooner cut their own throat than call themselves "Italian." There are much better ways to irritate a Sicilian though.
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Also, I'm pretty sure somebody with centuries-old Sicilian heritage would sooner cut their own throat than call themselves "Italian." There are much better ways to irritate a Sicilian though.
A site just for salacious gossip about Swedish pop musicians and tennis players? You mean BjornHub.
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A site just for salacious gossip about Swedish pop musicians and tennis players? You mean BjornHub.
If you're ever in Perth, there's a monument to the Mammoth Cheese beside the Tay Canal turning basin, and a small morsel, allegedly from the original cheese itself, preserved in the Matheson House Museum there.
August 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If you're ever in Perth, there's a monument to the Mammoth Cheese beside the Tay Canal turning basin, and a small morsel, allegedly from the original cheese itself, preserved in the Matheson House Museum there.
The train made several stops at towns along the route so that people could view the cheese. It arrived in Windsor on the evening of Tuesday, April 18, 1893 and in Chicago on April 25, where it was installed as part of the Canadian Dairy Pyramid in the Columbian Exhibition's Agricultural Building.
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The train made several stops at towns along the route so that people could view the cheese. It arrived in Windsor on the evening of Tuesday, April 18, 1893 and in Chicago on April 25, where it was installed as part of the Canadian Dairy Pyramid in the Columbian Exhibition's Agricultural Building.
The train left Perth on Monday, April 17, 1893, on a special "World's Fair Cheese Train" via the Canadian Pacific Railway. The cheese itself, dubbed the "Canadian Mite" was carried on a flatcar in its enormous riveted steel cheese box, along with the special 3½ ton wagon used to transport it.
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The train left Perth on Monday, April 17, 1893, on a special "World's Fair Cheese Train" via the Canadian Pacific Railway. The cheese itself, dubbed the "Canadian Mite" was carried on a flatcar in its enormous riveted steel cheese box, along with the special 3½ ton wagon used to transport it.
Bah! 7,000 pounds is rookie numbers. In 1893 the Town of Perth made a 22,000 pound mammoth cheese and sent it to the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. It was six feet tall, had a circumference of 28 feet and broke through the floor of its display building. No poem for it I'm aware of though.
August 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Bah! 7,000 pounds is rookie numbers. In 1893 the Town of Perth made a 22,000 pound mammoth cheese and sent it to the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. It was six feet tall, had a circumference of 28 feet and broke through the floor of its display building. No poem for it I'm aware of though.