Ross of Ottawa
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<p>An Ottawa-based Ross, inspired by people who have interests and pursue them.</p><p>Physics degreed, engineering careered. Enthusiastic about makerism, science, food ( <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EBTSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EBTSC</span></a>! ), culture and art/design. Inordinately fond of breadmaking and chair design.</p><p>Ephemera and daily activities. <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>maker</span></a></p><p>Profile ALT text: Avatar is a white ceramic coffee mug like you might find in a diner
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"Two of the guests ended up in the big vat of acid. So… breakfast anyone?" #Monsterdon
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That hanging harness would fetch top dollar on the runway in Milan. #Monsterdon
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At this point, may I recommend just shooting wildly around the house? #monsterdon
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Six more hours? The last two hours sure went past quickly. #monsterdon
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"My husband is insane with jealousy. That's why I've latched on to the first strange man that I met in the hallway." #monsterdon
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"Wouldn't you like to freshen up?" "Do I look non fresh to you?" #monsterdon
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They've got very effective candles in 1959. #monsterdon
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Checking some online inflation calculators, it suggests the $10k payoff in 1959 would be about $53k today. Hmmm, seems a little low. #monsterdon
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Whoa, that house looks like the Frank Lloyd Wright house that was later demolished! #Monsterdon
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Doing the #Monsterdon group movie watch and toot event. Use the big old mute button if you wish to avoid my stream of toots, starting now!
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Back before the US went totally off the rails, I had a long-running idea to do a visit to NYC just as a big snowstorm was coming. I imagined a small hotel with a good view and hunkering down with food and warm clothes to experience the digging out after a big snow. Prob diff than my city after a big storm, and discovering how diff would be fun. Not planning to visit again until the fascism fails, but sounds like this week would've been a good one for that.
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Well, the feature tonight on Monsterdon was a time travel flick, which is one of my favourite sci-fi genres, but this one really earned its IMDB rating of 3.7/10. 😂 Totally abandoned logic in the last quarter, contrived a long drawn-out footage-replay montage, then abruptly ended, just dropping any remaining thread of a plot. But the terrible movies are what makes #Monsterdon fun.
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Oh no, Stanton got away from us. #Monsterdon
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Ah, a lava chamber. We can just make our own rubies from scratch. #Monsterdon
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Oh my goodness, it's a cave full of gems. #Monsterdon
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If they try to "bring back" the accidental time travellers to the present plus or minus 24hours, they could come back yesterday, which is before they left. #Monsterdon
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Our time circuits have fused again, and we're stuck on the PBS feed again. #Monsterdon
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Looks like each of these people operate a single switch. #Monsterdon
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Way to go, Mark. You just sent us to the centre of time! And just before lunch! #Monsterdon
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What is this "laser" you speak of? Ha - 1968 it was still a new concept. Their science definitions are pretty good so far. #Monsterdon
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No smoking in the time vault car! Jeez. #Monsterdon
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Those are quite the early TV-quality titles! #Monsterdon
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New US tariffs go into effect today for Canadian products but they're *lifting* tariffs off certain products like salt, sugar, concrete… Hey Cdn Gov, they're *telling us* what their sensitive items/sectors are! We just need to slap punitive export tariffs on those things to increase the pain on the US gov until they see sense on the trade front. #tariffs #UStradeWar
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"12 years ago today, #Apple published a web page with one job: to make a U2 album go away." –MacRumors Funny, if they'd just given out a "download for free" coupon code, or let you delete it with a click, it probably would've been widely seen as positive. Just goes to show how a lack of control in the situation can feel like an abusive user experience. But I'm sure they learned their lesson… *Watches as Siri/AI options are rammed into every experience* #manda...
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I see #Monsterdon tonight is "Night of the Comet" (1984) which I recall seeing just in the last few years, so I'll prob skip it this week. It wasn't too bad, actually. Low budget and rather hokey 1980s.
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"It's all over now, Nancy. By the way, do you know anything about being a receptionist for a country doctor?" #monsterdon
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Check the upstairs room! There's fried calamari for anyone who wants it! #monsterdon #tentacles
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So the Old Ones are going to start their plunder of the Earth with farmer browns decrepit barn? #monsterdon
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That security guard is no match for a student of the occult! #monsterdon
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I was promised tentacles. Hoping the secret room is full of tentacles. #monsterdon