friday june 26

today i continued to enjoy the comments made by a banned commenter on my basketball website, whose previous contributions had revolved around calling the coronavirus a hoax and black lives matter a terrorist organization. despite my having banned him, he was still submitting comments, which were being immediately redirected to a spam folder and consisted mostly of increasingly offbeat personal attacks. his contribution today: "luke adams wears a bathing suit in the shower."

thursday june 25

today i was excited to find a big box containing my new, recently-ordered tennis racquet on my front step. after getting it out of its packaging and showing it to my girlfriend, she commented on the head size, pointing out that it looked noticeably smaller than my old racquet. "you didn't buy a kid's racquet, did you?" she asked.

although i had spent hours researching racquets before having ultimately landed on this one and was very confident i didn't actually buy a child-size one, her comment still elicited a few seconds of panic in me, which i assuaged by making sure there was no mention of children on the various labels still attached to the racquet and by doing a little more googling to confirm that smaller head sizes do, in fact, improve a player's control.

saturday june 20

today i was in my bathroom when i noticed a small, motionless spider in the corner of the room, seemingly dead -- its legs were all tucked up close to its body in an unnatural way. however, when i looked over a minute later, the spider was up and moving, making me wonder what had been going on when i first saw it. during a subsequent google search, i came across the following information:

During hibernation, spiders tuck in their legs and their metabolic rates slow to help them survive. This means they don't burn as many calories and can survive without eating, living in a sleeplike state until cold weather ends. The same tucked-in position may indicate a sleeping spider. A spider lying on his back or in an awkward position with legs tucked is generally dead.

sleeping spider. pretty cool.

sunday may 31

today i wrote to toronto's budget committee and my city councillor urging them to defund the toronto police. here are a couple helpful templates if you're interested in doing the same:

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