Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I had to do this timed task today and the guy running the test said the best time was 2:40. Obviously I took that as a challenge but the guy wandered off, and when he saw I had finished he said I did it in 2:42. It was definitely 2:30, at most! Give me my meaningless record! 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The burgess assizes have a big list of products that passed through the market, and the taxes paid on all of them. I can translate almost everything except "ecuelles de marbre peintes et debornies", which are marble bowls that are painted and...something? 121
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once again it's the most exciting day of the year, fantasy hockey draft day 100
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In Greek "martyr" means a witness, but in Christian use it came to mean someone tortured/killed for their faith, and that meaning was adopted in Latin and its descendants. In Old French "martire" evolved to mean the torture itself, which is how it's used in the Burgess Assizes of Jerusalem. 150
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Candlelight Concert with a string quartet playing Coldplay and Imagine Dragons songs. Basically like being in a Bridgerton episode 070
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our TV/Internet bill went way up, so I called them and said "nah" and they dropped it back down to the previous price, which is still way too much, really. Presumably the prices are completely made up and they just count on most people not bothering to notice or complain 020
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I made some chocolate zucchini bread but I forgot to take a picture of it before cutting it up. Is it even real if I don't post it on social media?! 001
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Found this in the library at the University of Western Ontario: "The Eastern Mediterranean Lands in the Period of the Crusades", gifted by Peter Edbury to John Rowe, who taught at UWO at the time. Rowe retired long before I was a student there, so unfortunately I never got to meet him 020
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Maybe just an Ontario-specific problem, but we buy milk in 4 litre bags that are divided into three smaller bags. But the last one I bought turned out to have two normal sized bags and this one half-size bag?! I've never seen anything like it before 340
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Philip of Novara: hey I wrote this song, want to hear it John of Beirut: please Philip, no Philip of Novara: ok how about this Renard the Fox fanfic I wrote about you John of Beirut: *deep sigh* 293
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Some exciting Ontario Hockey League opening night overtime action, London Knights 3 - Windsor Spitfires 2 110
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sometimes there are Theatre Kids (complimentary) and sometimes there are Theatre Kids (derogatory) and I'm pretty sure the problem with Strange New Worlds is that it's too much of the latter 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yesterday there was a dead squirrel in front of my house, which must have been hit by a car the night before, and was gradually disintegrated by more cars/trucks/buses. Last night there was a skunky smell outside, and now there's a dead skunk beside the dead squirrel 120
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My daughter learning about September 11 in school, something that happened twelve years before she was born, is the equivalent of me learning about things that happened in 1968 040
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I always tell the kids bumblebees are friendly, you could pet them like a dog, but that didn't stop me from letting out a little terror shriek when one flew in the car 130
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My 9/11 story is that I didn't have class until 1 pm on Tuesdays, so I slept in until noon and missed everything. Then they didn't even cancel classes and I had one from 7-10 that night 001
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When the reviewer says readers would "profit" if I added something 060
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Once again my daughter is lowkirkenuinely horrified by my use of gen Z slang 020
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The university is about 4 km away by road, but in the general topography of the city it's in the river valley and we're on a hill further upstream, so the orientation week concerts sound like they're right outside my house 000
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This story is of course more complicated, but the gist is that a kid was bullying my daughter, and that kid eventually ended up bullying the entire grade, so all the kids gathered together and confronted her. This is a level of maturity and organization that I certainly did not possess at that age 140
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Last of the summer baking, some mini-chocolate chip muffins (some turned out less mini than others) 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Coyote vs. Acme was pretty funny...when he jumps over the cliff, I know what's going to happen, everyone knows what's going to happen, and it happened, and I was still on the floor laughing 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026World Map Discourse was making absolutely no sense to me, but then I realized normal people have never thought about cartography and map projections, and they think of the Mercator map they had in their elementary school classroom as "the map" 091
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Smashing Pumpkins, Thru The Eyes if Ruby, long quiet intro pause Drums go WHOMP WHOMP LOUD GUITARS This is one of the songs I try not to listen to too much because it's TOO good 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In France I used to watch a lot of English movies dubbed into French. Of course, I soon learned that French people looked down on dubbed movies and preferred to watch the original versions, since that helped them learn English. Nevertheless! Here are some observations about French dubs 140
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I guess this stuff is some kind of fancy underwear, but that's not important. The important thing is the lesson in Canadian dialectology! Without actually looking it up, I will guess that the Manmade guys are Anglophones from Montreal, although at least one of them is probably a native Francophoneyoutube.comWhich Underwear Is Best For Us?YouTube video by Manmade 110
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favourite film that came out when you were 20?static.klipy.comMaximus: Are You Not Entertained?ALT: Maximus: Are You Not Entertained? 020
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My "crusades, Byzantine, other medieval, and any other stuff that is interesting to me, personally" bibliography that I've been making to over the years was originally separated into books and articles, but that doesn't make much sense. I need to organize all this better 041
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026All the fanciest cleaning products and chemicals are no match for the greatest sink de-clogging tool ever invented, this $2 piece of long plastic with little hookshomedepot.ca 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I've mostly avoided allergies this year...except after sticking my head in the tomato plants, that was a poor choice. We have dozens of tomatoes and thousands of cherry tomatoes this time, somehow. They're everywhere, they even took over the zucchini and the peppers 160
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We should actually expand the Great Lakes. Nipigon, Nippissing, Champlain, St. Clair, Simcoe...make Georgian Bay a separate lake. Even add Lake Scugog 200
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026At the theatre We read this in high school, but I can appreciate it much better now 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Peter Cullen died too??? I remember when I was a little kid and they stopped showing Transformers on TV and replaced it with BraveStarr, I was so mad. BraveStarr sucks! When I was an adult and watched the Transformers movie in the theatre, I recognized Peter Cullen's voice and I was so happy 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Now Tim Curry too? We're losing secondary The Hunt for Red October characters at an alarming rate 020
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Ganden Phodrang is already searching the backwoods of Appalachia for the next Dalai Parton 040
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/202610 years ago today, I got my thyroid removed, which should have been a pretty minor operation, but they also had to take out a big cancerous lump that was trying to escape through my neck, and some other cells in my chest. So now I have a huge scar that can be only be described as "bitchin" 140
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Following the bathroom mini-renovation, what if we take apart the fridge and try to fix the leaky freezer? Despite also having no particular skills or knowledge in this area 130
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026More chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes they turn out flat and crumbly, sometimes round and puffy. Their ways are inscrutable 130
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I love Star Trek and I love Muppets but man, I don't know about this 010
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I saw this 1997 Rolling Stones/Pearl Jam concert poster the other day, and it's definitely referencing something, right? I can almost picture it but I can't remember exactly. I'm thinking maybe the Transfiguration by Raphael but I'm not sure 130
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Got this Lego DeLorean for my birthday! No gullwing doors and no Einstein, but there are extra pieces to make it look like the sequel version 140
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I have to put the garbage out on my own birthday? Too bad I don't have any teenage children who can do this kind of stuff hey wait a minute 050
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Back in my day the mall had a mini golf course in it 200
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Had a visit with some of my parents' old friends, who live in Madoc, Ontario - named for the legendary medieval Welsh guy who supposedly discovered North America. I forgot all about that until now but I remember thinking that was incredibly fascinating as a kid 141
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It finally stopped raining here but it's either still too cloudy or it was too late, I don't see any eclipse even in that green spot that is presumably burning a hole in my lens 030
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If I had a nickel for every time Reacher bones a tiny waif...well I don't think I've seen every episode but it happens at least twice 020