iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

From the 1978 classic album, sing along with “Hoo are You?”

Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Dear expedia, I updated your "explanation" page to be more clear why the ***** it takes 10 days to cut me from your emails I never asked for. What takes 10 days? Please give Chad a raise.

You're unsubscribed.

You should stop getting emails after 48 hours, but changes can sometimes take up to 10 business days because we have to send Chad down in
the basement where the server is stored, and he must take a flashlight, bug spray to manually splice the data tape to remove you..... WTF is this
BS, it should take 3 nanoseconds.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Home colors, green grass, red dogwood, yellow poplars. The stubborn green leafed one we call “Non Conformi-tree”

Outdoor scene, from bottom tall prairie grass, above a thick band of red dogwood bushes, above are towering straight yellow leafed poplars except for on on right side which still has green leaves.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

“That’s some sunset, eh?” “Beauty” “What happened to the human with the camera?” “Didn’t you see them run after the cat that snuck out the door they opened?” “Beauty”

A pair of yellow petal flowers in the lower right look as if in conversation about the brilliant and vibrant sunset with a smeared blob of yellow and wide swaths of vivid red.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I don’t care how many times you call it by a letter, I’ll always call it twitter (and never go there). I remember.

Silhouette of x shaped railroad crossing sing in front of super , a faint x shape in sky from contrails.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Always Be Assessing (from Glengary Glen Test)

Three buttons from a survey device with icon faces left to right, smiling, in between, and frowning.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Mushroom sporting a bad ass arachnid style logo.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I feel obliged sometimes to reply to email spammers. Well, I write the reply and usually delete. It's theraputic.

An email from some spammer at slotilzza or some crap like that: I was reading oeglobal.org and came across a few of your recent articles.

I wanted to ask whether you work with external partners on commercial content or other advertising collaborations.

The reply I wrote and deleted
How interesting in your reading of our recent "articles" you completely missed that WE ARE A NOT-FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION ORGANIZATION? I feel you can use a better education opportunity to discern the difference. Please rot in hell and die.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The spam folder is mildly entertaining with all the warnings of my Cloud account being full, the porny headlines, and AMAZING offers that now have me hooked on AI

Email bold text asks :What happens when high-intent visitors land on cogdogblog.com after hours? A handwritten font pasted on stop responds, ALL 3 OF THEM READ A POST, MAYBE. WHAT ELSE WOULD THEY DO?

Below the pitch goes on: Over 67% of website visitors leave within 45 seconds if they can't get instant answers. Buzzspot turns cogdogblog.com into an active, 24/7 AI-powered sales engine that engages every prospect, answers questions using your site's exact data, and captures qualified leads while you sleep.

The response in sarcastic font reads: HEU MORONS, I DON'T SELL ANYTHING! Y0UR AI MUST USE PSCHYEDELICTS TO SELL STUFF.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Explain to me like I am five how "unlocking" a NYT article requires me to give an email to log in? Define "free"? I jump archive.today/WtrtL

New York Times Paywall, with message Someone unlocked this story for you, log in to read for free."

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

To a dog every day is Sunday. I yearn to Be More Dog

Upper body and head of brown and white dog sound asleep on large comfy cushion.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Found in glove compartment an old relict, Erin Red Cross emergency radio/flashlight, hand crack and solar power. Even has usb power out too. I’m ready when AI destroys humanity, cranking my own energy.

Hand in bottom right holding small radio with antenna up, a bit of the shadow seen of its hand crank lever for power.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Poking around the wayback machine a web site from mid 1990s with the kind of disclaimer when the web was fun. Plan for alternate Wednesdays!

Disclaimer: ******** Websites are not fault-tolerant and are not designed, manufactured or intended for use in on-line control equipment, nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, or air traffic control in which the failure of the ******** Websites could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage. Void where prohibited, except on alternate Wednesdays. Do not run with scissors, you could put someone's eye out, except when Mom's gone.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

#tdc5360 #ds106 #dailycreate I did Exactly What the Creative Prompt Machine code.cog.dog/edtechaphors/create Handed me. Develop an action film plot where Fonzie falls in love with Moses while at a creepy dark basement. .. and did exactly what everyone […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

AI generated movie poster of man on left in leather jacket giving thumbs up embraced with bearded man in right holding stone tablet. Styled text at bottom reads Fonzie and Moses: Basement of the Damned.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@sundogplanets You might almost see it from the Ring Road, and a short walk from U of R.

Map showing University of regina Campus and a red line showing how close the new Bell AI Data center is to it.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Finally catching up to listening to (where the bleep is his mastodon handle) Clint Lalonde's weekly radio show www.em-radio.com

Electromagnetic Radip web site with live p[ayer showing current show of Global Roots Radio hosted by my friend Clint Lalonde.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Fenway has its Green Monster but I have my own pesto sauce pizza monster. Among its toppings is a carpet of fresh oregano.

Rectangular home made pizza with bits of a pesto sauce showing plus more green herbs on top. You would give much for a slice. I’d give it to for free.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Can’t walk the trail, blocked by chokecherries.

Low hanging branch of black berries seems to block a pathway.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Fold this! Prototype successor to the Duo is the iCootieCatcher

Multiple folded paper stars with words written on them, the fortune teller game kids make by folding paper.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Some more exploring the open source, non-fettered by adtech Marginalia Search. You gotta love the #smallweb philosophy statement. "Things exist on the web because someone built them. As a consequence, if you want something to exist on the web, you go build it." […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

None of this is new. How long have been talking about the decrepit state of the web? How many pages of essays have been written, how long have we waited for the planets to align and the web somehow to fix itself? Seems very clear talking and writing isn’t going to fix the web. Rallies or pleas to the government isn’t going to fix the web either. Not even AI or Elon Musk is going to fix the web.

New search and discovery mechanisms stubbornly refuse to manifest almost no matter what we do, until we actually go build the things. You do not need VC funding, or a San Fransisco address, or even someone’s permission.

This is how it’s always been. Things exist on the web because someone built them. As a consequence, if you want something to exist on the web, you go build it.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

For no resal good reason I am adding a batch of new quotes to my "On Blogging" collection cogdogblog.com/on-blogging It's an abandoned WordPress plugin that inserts a random quote in my footer. I scour for "famous quotes about writing" and substitute […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

I [blog] for the same reason I breathe — because if I didn’t, I would die (Isaac Asimov).

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Rainy day means jam/jelly making! Steamed 2 huge batches chokecherry to juice, and also processed one batch raspberries (somehow forgot to photo the boiling/pectin steps). Short on good canning jars, do a few go in fridge for quick eating.

Large strainer full of black chokecherries to be washed.

Steamer pot loaded with chokecherries ready to juice into catch pot connected by tube from big steamer.

Ready to can various size jars of chokecherry and raspberry jam.1 large and 6 smaller jars full of fruit juice jelly

One tall and 6 short jars of jelly/juice.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Our youngish (6 years) apple tree produces real sized fruit, some not picked soon enough. But it was enough to make pie and applesauce.

7 applies in a sink, 2 are browned on one side.

Remnants of peeling apples, skins and peeler tool in sink.

Fresh baked apple pie on left side of stove, on right a pot of boiled apples.

Hand holding o e if 3 jars of homemade applesauce.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Gotta do something with all these zucchini torpedoes- tonight’s dinner was zuke pancakes.

Hand holding zucchini on bottom left over a lather bowl of batter made from one.

Mixing bowl on right with zucchini batter, frypan on left with 5 large pancakes.

Glass baking tray with one of two layers of zucchini pancakes already made.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Painted Lady butterflies make me think of my mom. They must be stocking up here in Saskatchewan for their big trip south. Safe travels!

Multicolored butters it atop bright bulbous flowers.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Quick round of chokecherry picking at sunset last night, about 2 gallons picked in 40 minutes, purple hands as proof.

Two hands stained with purple over a pail half full of berries.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Woah I got my fifteen seconds of fame, I'm on Dave's blogroll @davew at scripting.com

Portion of web site at scripting.com where on right sidebar, CogDogBlog is listed with its most recent posts. Very crude read large text reads Dave's Blog Roll pointing to my blog being in his sidebar. I'm famous!

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Basil storage not needed. Made one batch pesto for tonight’s pizza, another for paste later this week. Tonight’s super pizza is of course homemade crust, pesto sauce from our own basil, sausage, mushroom, our own red onion, our own zucchini, and herbs include fresh oregano and dill… our own.

Container of thick green pesto freshly made, dribbled of it around the dish.

Fully loaded pizza after cooked. I know you would like a slice

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I picked a bit more than the 2 cups of fresh basil for tonight’s pesto sauce. Can you smell it? Woah. Give your best easy methods to preserve by freezing, thanks.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Next time I will share my sharp lunar eclipse photo.

Night photo of a bright blurry blob in the dark sky that is hard to tell is the moon during the recent eclipse.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Hey, anyone can change the name of a lake, right? All you need is a pen.

Map of south Florida where Lake Okeechobee has been renamed Lake Cheetoh Bunghole, certainly visible from Palm Beach.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Plus using as much cilantro as possible before it goes too scraggly. This and the chile peppers went into Saturday night’s guacamole.

Plastic container of small leaf green herb (cilantro) and on top are 3 red curved shaped skinny hot peppers.

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Late August and the herb garden is now cooking! Lots of fresh dill, oregano, chives. The basil is looking good for a few rounds of pesto pizza.

Plastic container with fresh picked green herbs, behind is medium size leafy green plants, basil.

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