A very large spider decided to cross my stovetop as I was about to start cooking and did not move for 20 minutes (time it takes to clean, chop, spice and roast broccoli with cajun spice/EVOO).
It just moved a few inches.
Truth: When my big ones were still little, they sang it as "We're going to eat pizza!"
May 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I am really tired of everything being reduced to the French-English binary. Students choose schools and programs taking a million criteria under consideration. It's not like they go "I am going to study in English" end of story.
Legault is again showing his paternalistic core: I know better than you what's good for you. Let the bloody young people choose.
May 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My parenting leaves something to be desired in all sorts of ways, but sometimes I think I communicate the right message. Here is what I just told my teen:
If you know what's best for you, and you don't do it because it would displease someone else, what you are telling yourself is that you should betray yourself for someone else's sake. Repeatedly betraying yourself is inviting mental illness.
May 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#MontréalJob Physicien ou ingénieur junior pour opérer, maintenir et améliorer un laboratoire de caméras. Laboratoire est controlé à distance mais nous avons besoin de présence un jour sur deux. Presque tout le monde travaille à distance donc bureau est une ville fantôme.
Responsabilités:
- Intégration de nouveaux équipements dans notre plateforme de capture
- Développement de scripts python pour effectuer les captures de données
- Installation des montages de capture pour les tâches planifiées
May 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#MontrealJob Junior physicist or engineer to operate, maintain and improve our digital camera lab. Former optics lab tech would be perfect. Lab is mostly remote controlled but we need someone in the lab every other day. Almost everybody works remotely so office is a ghost town.
Key Responsibilities:
- Integrating new hardware equipment to the capture platform
- Develop comprehensive python scripts to perform data capture activities
- Setup the capture equipment for scheduled tasks
- Design and build new test setups in the optics laboratory
May 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
#COVID19: Teens have way less tolerance for people who don't keep others safe than we think. When someone keeps that they spent significant time near an infected person on the down low and shows up in class, chats go on fire.
Lunch break is gonna be "interesting"
Jan 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#COVID19QC: "On ne peut pas, présentement, enfin, pas légalement, aller marcher avec un ami" ... mais on peut le recevoir chez soi si on est une personne seule. lapresse.ca/actualites/202… via @lp_lapresse
Je comprends que c'est plus facile de vérifier que quelqu'un est une personne seule chez elle que dehors, mais l'absurde y est quand même chez lui.
#PL21#Loi21#Bill21 Pourquoi je suis opposé à la Loi 21. (Thread) 1/#PL21#Loi21#Bill21 J'ai personnellement souffert (un peu: n'exagérons pas) d'avoir été l'unique, puis le plus visible, non catholique (athée, de surcroit) hors du placard à mon école primaire puis secondaire (pas 100% certain que j'ai été le pionnier au secondaire) 2/
