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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • As someone who sees MS Word forms regularly force Canadians to use Month/Day/Year formats which were never native to Canada and don’t meet the ISO standard either, I am inferring the impetus transition.

    But truly, I old enough to recall many standards being harmonized in the early 90s in the wake of the North American free trade agreement.

    Whether or not a digital archive document demonstrates that Canada Post intentionally harmonized to match the US is TBC.

    But it is a verifiable fact that the two-letter standard for provinces and territories has not been commonly established in all federal regulations or data standards or in provincial and territorial data systems standards.

    That is to say, it has not been formally adopted as by Canada or as the ‘Canadian data standard.’




  • No need to fuss about calendars. Just need to revisit Dr. Macdonald’s Temporal Mechanics 101.

    There have been several temporal incursions since the DS9 crew did theirs - Voyager, Picard, SNW and Prodigy, not to mention the rippling effects of the Temporal Wars established in Enterprise and Discovery.

    Dates and details can slip as long as the major events stay more or less the same.











  • A lot of what fans think is canon just isn’t anyway. Most so-called ‘violations’ are just different interpretations of what was shown on screen decades ago.

    There’s an entire list out there of all the headcanon that fans hold up that just isn’t supported by what’s on screen.

    Writers shouldn’t be held to fan interpretations of what they thought they saw in TOS or TNG.

    In other words, fans who clearly live in glass canon houses shouldn’t throw stones.


  • Startide Rising is the best of them all.

    Sundiver is quite good too.

    The later books were deeply marred by Brin’s giving into pressure from his editors to centre them on a group of adolescent males of diverse species because his publisher was of the view that the average scientific fiction reader was a 14 year old male. Brin has written about this and how difficult it was for him to write outside his natural quite adult style. His fantastic characters from Startide Rising are pushed into the background and only get to step forward and shine again at the very end.




  • Clearly, the ability to be outside in appropriate clothing for activities isn’t being mandated. This is where a temperate climate enables ridiculous practices to persist.

    All I can think about when I see this image is how in Ontario, the responsible provincial ministry requires all schools and ‘day nurseries’ (read day and after school care) to put the kids out in the yards twice a day unless the weather conditions are severe (Less than -20 or more than +30 Celsius.).

    Parents are responsible to send their kids with suitable clothing for the cold. One rarely sees little girls in skirts in schools unless they are wearing tunic dresses over leggings.

    In an earlier era, pre 1970s, when skirts were mandatory for girls, that meant switching to pants or snow pants from the skirts 3 times a day to go outside in winter (two breaks and leaving end of day).