I just published a new episode of my mini #podcast called “5 Quick Things: Braces, Selfie a Day, Summer Denial, Wednesday Binge, and Podcast Experiments”. 🎧

After you’ve had a listen, feel free to reply and add your thoughts to future episodes of the show.


For today’s #selfie, a reminder to drink water before, during, and after you attempt to record a podcast. Don’t want to get dry, raspy throat sounds. Unless you’re doing a dry, raspy throaty podcast I guess.

Selfie a day for a year, day 9, Aug 26, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses is drinking from a glass in a cozy room with a microphone nearby.

Someone’s using a very AI’d version of Prime Minster Mark Carney in their ad on YouTube.

A fairly obvious AI version of Prime Minister Mark Carney in an advert on YouTube for cafdaf.typeform.com

Now that event invites for the iPhone announcement have gone out, I updated to the iOS26 public beta. There’s going to be a whole lot of wtf from folks when the update hits their devices this fall.


This looks like a handy tool for moving from Spotify to Apple Music.


Today’s extreme close up #selfie comes from the always flattering change room at Mark’s (formerly known as Mark’s Work Wearhouse) while I was trying on a pair of pants.

Selfie a day for a year, day 8, Aug 25, 2025 edition.


I love the way Buttondown thinks deeply about the web: A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletter


Look I get why it might be attractive to have all your #podcasting eggs in one basket like this, but I really strongly advise against it based on past history of tech companies trying to be “the one”, only to have investors decide they need “the cash” more than they want to be “the one”.

Screenshot of a Riverside.fm splash advert reading “Host and publish your podcast directly in Riverside&10;No extra tools to manage (and pay for) downloads and uploads. Every paid plan includes hosting with an RSS feed, analytics, and publishing to Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and more. For now, hosting is available only for new podcasts that aren’t already hosted elsewhere, but stay tuned for more updates!”

☕️ + 🐶 (being teased relentlessly by birds this morning) + 🌞

For my #selfie a day for a year, day 7, Aug 24, 2025 edition.

A person relaxes on a porch with a mug, while a dog stands on the grassy lawn near a fence.

Fresh hairdid for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 6, Aug 23, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses and a beard is taking a selfie in front of a window, with a blurred sign in the background.

The realization that even when I don’t feel like taking a #selfie, I kind of have to (self imposed) if I’m going to do a selfie a day for a year.

Selfie a day for a year, day 5, Aug 22, 2025 edition.


We saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan and I highly recommend going if you have the opportunity in Saskatoon this summer. Lots of silly fun with winks to the audience and a great cast.


Selfie a day for a year, day ?, Aug 21, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses and a beard is lying down on a pillow, wearing a black shirt.

I think the best compliment I can pay to local pizza place Thirteen Pies is that every time I go there, I intend to take a picture or two of the food and drinks, but I always forget to take any pictures because I enjoy the food and drinks too much. Anyway, here’s the beer I had. 🍻

A photo of a pint of beer from Better Brothers Brewery in Saskatoon, taken at Thirteen Pies restaurant in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.


Happy Gilmore 2, 2025 - ★★★

Watched on Wednesday August 20, 2025.


Thinking about paying for two kids in braces given the price of eggs these days.

Selfie a day for a year, day 3. Aug 20, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses and a beard is looking thoughtfully to the side while standing indoors near a window.


A great write up by Salma on getting started with the visuals of live streaming in general, plus some sweet Twitch specifics for anyone curious.


Playing a bit of Fortnite no mic or cam this time just me dying a lot. 😆 #twitch