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Cale @caleplut.com · 06/10/2026

Elder child left her notebook out and I have good news about the way the youths are decorating

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Cale @caleplut.com · 16/08/2026

Environmental storytelling

A street fair plinko board with "PLINKO FOR KIDS ONLY", with "kids" underlined

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Cale @caleplut.com · 11/07/2026

I think theres a @friends-table.bsky.social episode about this

An Ibex, out of any other context, atop a white platform

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Cale @caleplut.com · 23/06/2026

Had to take a detour on my ride today. Came across this good boy, politely asked him if I could get by. He responded by sitting down and eating some grass.

A black bear, on the side of a gravel path. Picture is taken farther away than is needed to get a good look, but probably closer than is safe

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Cale @caleplut.com · 11/06/2026

Ok yeah I guess I should replace it

A very pitted spindle from a kid's bike bottom bracket

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Cale @caleplut.com · 22/05/2026

Easily the funniest part of the @cityofpoco.bsky.social traffic engineering is that they're absolutely rabid fanatics about implementing every traffic calming measure they can, but only if it's targeted at bicycles. Road? Flat, straight, clear Mixed-use path? Bends, curbs, fences, bollards

A mixed-use path with two increasingly bendy curves, lined with fences to enforce the turns. Beside it there is a perfectly straight and clear road.

A multi-use path from the other direction, with uneven pavement and another curve. Past the curve is a marked crosswalk where the MUP has to come down to road level with curbs. To the side is a straight, flat, clear road.

A "residential" street and Mixed-use path. The MUP curves to the right before the crosswalk, and has several signs and a bollard along the left-hand side, with hedges lining the right-hand side until the turn. The MUP has a hard curb down to a crosswalk that remains at the road level. To the side is a flat, straight, clear road.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 21/05/2026

I do not think that this is one of the mixed uses of this path

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Cale @caleplut.com · 15/05/2026

Older kid is big enough to move to 24" wheels, which means I get a new little mini-restoration project. Wife sourced the beater, kid picked the component colours, now I get to have my fun.

An old used kids bike, stripped down a bit. Has one new pedal, but no handlebar ends. Both shifters are also broken.

The same kids bike, slightly more together. Now has trigger shifter and grip on the right. The handlebar grip, shift and brake housing, and pedal all match in colour: a green against the yellow frame

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Cale @caleplut.com · 07/05/2026

Me, when the bear was a few steps away from being all the way across the bridge: it's probably safe for me to start going up onto the bridge Me, five seconds later when the bear was spooked by something on the other side and charged straight at me at full speed: Oh

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Cale @caleplut.com · 17/04/2026

Well it finally happened to me: Our utility ebike was stolen. Locked it up in a pretty trafficked area to a standard bike rack with a nice u-lock, but I guess it wasn't quite enough. We've put out all the 529 alerts, but we're not too optimistic about the chances.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 13/04/2026

Ok maybe it is raining enough that I needed my rain pants on

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Cale @caleplut.com · 28/03/2026

I maintain I was correct

The same clay "frog" with a basilisk edited in

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Cale @caleplut.com · 28/03/2026

6 y.o.: Dada, do you know what I made? Me: That's a Dark Souls Basilisk 6 y.o.: Me: 6 y.o.: it's a froggy

A frog made out of clay that definitely looks like a basilisk from Dark Souls

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Cale @caleplut.com · 21/03/2026

Picked up a book from the local library Took the long way there. Then the longer way home

A steel frame touring bicycle with a background of a cloudy but bright sky behind, looking over the water

Two navigation histories. One is a 9.75km trip to the library, the other is a 17.66km trip back. The library is probably about 5km away, the routes go very out of the way

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Cale @caleplut.com · 06/03/2026

Easily the funniest part of any Canadian social gathering is that at the end, there's always 2 or 3 of the popular items left. No Canadian will ever take the last piece

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Cale @caleplut.com · 02/02/2026

"Was not able to provide further details about the cause of the collision" Ok but at some point a motor vehicle ran into a pedestrian, right? Like literally they don't even mention that a car or a truck hit someone? Just that there was a collision, nobody knows how it happened.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 14/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

The map screen for "Dragon's Eye" for the Apple II

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Cale @caleplut.com · 31/12/2025

I make my own cola mix, and I finally got around to labeling my concentrates

Three large plastic bottles labeled with "Cale's Cola", with one caffeinated, one without caffeine, and one that swaps between the two when I have too much of one or the other.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 19/12/2025

They definitely figured out what the problem with this part of the path was and absolutely figured out how to solve it

A very steep wiggle in a mixed-use path to avoid several old utility poles. A desire path cuts directly through the corner.

A newly installed fence cuts off access to this desire path and forces everyone to take the full wiggle.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 02/12/2025

It's the next morning and I'm still in disbelief about this one. I'm the green line. The light had cycled to red and I had a big ol' crossing signal. I have to dodge and stop mid-way through the intersection while a car blasts through the red light, screeching to a stop at the red line.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 05/11/2025

Doesn't even have to be a dog

A picture of a bear sent to me by my wife, which she has captioned "A little too close for my liking". I have helpfully responded with "Puppy"

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Cale @caleplut.com · 30/10/2025

"The guy who wrote it's raining tacos has an Emmy" is going to be a fun fact that earns me no friends in among the schoolteachers

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Cale @caleplut.com · 03/10/2025

This is about the second half of my bike ride today

The "I'm a genius! Oh no!" Meme, but with "Great legs today! Headwind!"

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Cale @caleplut.com · 25/09/2025

I feel like when you get to "Don't listen to music or podcasts if you are walking anywhere" on your list, you should maybe ask whether you're being helpful and providing safety tips, or whether you've lost the real points somewhere along the way.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 27/08/2025

When I'm about to do things that excel probably shouldn't do

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Cale @caleplut.com · 18/07/2025

Rest of family is camping as of today, I still have work tomorrow, and one kid was in daycare while my wife left to set up the campsite. Picked up the kid, took him to the campsite, had dinner, made s'mores, and managed to make it home for bed. Get to ride back on the acoustic after work tomorrow

An ebike display showing 35.9 km trop odometer and no battery left

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Cale @caleplut.com · 15/07/2025

Pizza night incoming

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Cale @caleplut.com · 14/07/2025

All puppies are good puppies

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Cale @caleplut.com · 05/07/2025

Pickin' up the kids from camp

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Cale @caleplut.com · 20/06/2025

Today I finally tried riding all the way home from downtown Vancouver. Totally worked, totally doing that again

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Cale @caleplut.com · 10/06/2025

Found this note taped onto my kid's room door. They're training to develop immersive sims I see

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Cale @caleplut.com · 08/06/2025

Went to a Lion's game. Incredible seats at a 50 yard line. Not "the", of course, because the field is a goofy Canadian sized field. Saw a good Canadian football score Oh and Snoop Dogg gave a pre-game concert

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Cale @caleplut.com · 06/06/2025

I don't know if anyone's had this thought before, but British Columbia is beautiful

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Cale @caleplut.com · 05/06/2025

On the way home, right around these hills, 22k in, a dude rocketed paste on the second one, casually goes, "These hills, eh", and speeds off, hitting 35km/hr on flats and descents easy. I get close at a light, he's on a Fixie. That dude fucking rocks. Coolest thing I've seen in a while

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Cale @caleplut.com · 05/06/2025

Spent the last two work days at UBC. Taking a bus from transit was going to take just as long as biking, so I just had a nice long commute. Snuck in just over 100km in two days, and took in some gorgeous views. Photo doesn't really do it justice

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Cale @caleplut.com · 29/04/2025

Forgot to separate the tracking on my "dropping the kid off" and "riding home by myself" parts of my morning

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Cale @caleplut.com · 20/04/2025

My weekly sourdough, speaking of risen things today

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Cale @caleplut.com · 18/04/2025

The weather was too good to not stop for a quick picture.

A Brodie Elan Vital 2.0 steel touring bike, parked on a trail with a beautiful river and mountain behind

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Cale @caleplut.com · 01/04/2025

As the weather improves, my commute home gets longer

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Cale @caleplut.com · 02/03/2025

We found a real beat up Norco kids bike a few months ago for free on the side of the road. One shifter and pedal completely destroyed, no grips, brakes all sponge, etc. Finally got around to restoring it today Also swapped out both kids bikes grip shifers for triggers - make it easier for 'em

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Cale @caleplut.com · 25/02/2025

Oh yeah, we prioritize sustainable multi-modal transit all right

A bike trail that has a ridiculously wide and tight turn around some power lines, with several desire paths traveling through the mud to bypass it

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Cale @caleplut.com · 29/01/2025

I think the ridiculus semantics of "Mathematical programming" having nothing to do with computers, but instead dealing with, like, using mathematics to set the program of events at an army base is one of my favourite confusing terminology origin stories.

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Cale @caleplut.com · 29/01/2025

Obviously I'd captain the humble Miranda Class, workhorse of the Federation fleet. All aboard the USS Second Chances

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Cale @caleplut.com · 18/01/2025

Someone should come up with a tourism slogan or licence plate about how beautiful it is here in British Columbia

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Cale @caleplut.com · 01/01/2025

In March, I noticed that I was getting in better and better cycling shape from riding the e-bike everywhere. I kept turning down the motor, and thought to myself that maybe if I had a good non e-bike, maybe I'd use it some days. Turns out I'll use it on most days

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Cale @caleplut.com · 20/11/2024

My wife: Probably want to stick to the roads after the storm, trails are gonna be a mess Me: Absolutely, definitely. Me, at the entrance to the trail: I mean, I do just kind of want to see how they are... The trail:

A small tree having fallen across a forested tra

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