iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 15/12/2025

Me: I wonder if anyone else is as big a fan of Magikarp as me. Google AI:

A search in Google "Magikarp favorite pokemon" and the AI result starts off buly saying "Magikarp doesn't have one single 'favourite' Pokemon in the games, bun fans often choose Magikarp as their favorite....."

Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 25/10/2025

Interesting fact Solitaire was on a lot of these early devices because it helped people learn how to use the drag and drop function on those newfangled pointer devices.

A close-up of the screen on a wasp WPA 1000 barcode scanner with a winning screen of the cards cascading out across the screen from a solitaire game.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 24/10/2025

Wasp: "What is my purpose?" Me: "You run solitaire now."

Picture of a Wasp WPA1000 barcode scanner that runs Windows mobile 5.0 pocket PC premium. An antiquated device from the 2010s era of technology. It has an LCD touch screen taking up the top 2/3 of the device with a chunky bezel around and power button located top right above the screen. Below the screen in the bottom third of the device's face there is a cluster of buttons surrounding a circular up down left right rocker with a centered button, presumably as enter. There is an outer button circle of 4 buttons for quick actions with pictograms of papers. A checklist, a calendar and a letter envelope. On the outer left and right of that are single slanted buttons of similar size on the left, one for keyboard and on the right a clock with a house for home screen

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 11/10/2025

Lol the DJ's Double J's had paper stuffed as packaging and it's just a segment about 18 inches or rolling paper 😅

Picture of the 18 inch long section of rolling paper on a glass patio table in from of the open jar or pre rolls.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 27/09/2025

Haven't been posted here as often so here's a selfie of me and my partner

A selfie of myself (left) and my partner Clancy (right) In costume at Balls Falls Conservation Park for a themed Princess Bride photo shoot. I am dressed as Wesley and she is dressed as Buttercup.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 03/09/2025

How you're supposed to press control+/ while using a right handed mouse to highlight vs how I press it 9 times out of 10, because my brain won't let me unanchor my pinky from the corner of the board 😅

Me using my Logitech g513 keyboard. Pressing the right hand control with my index finger on my left hand and the "/" key with my middle finger.

Me using my Logitech g513 keyboard. Pressing the left hand control with my pinky finger on my left hand and the "/" key with my thumb.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 01/09/2025

"Sitting on the porch with my rack out" Aka I got some new rack shelf parts used on marketplace so I'm cleaning them before bringing them inside.

A picture of my knees, looking out past while sitting on the porch with a spray bottle of window glass cleaner on the rail used as a mild degreaser to clean the three server rack sliding trays and keyboard attachments that are leaning up against the ledge of my porch and sitting on the rail beside the Windex and a spent paper towel.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 16/08/2025

*usb colour calibration devices existing* *Meanwhile me in 2025, still just calibrating by eye using points of reference to gauge balance across the gamut of colours*

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 16/08/2025

Went to one of my favourite restaurants in St Catharines yesterday, Al Noor for the first time since they renovated and were under new management, still the best! I ate my Lamb shawarma platter so fast I didn't even get a picture. Also grabbed these at the Halaal grocer attached and they're so good!

Me holding a bottle of "NEW EFES non-alcoholic malt beverage pineapple grapefruit flavour" the bottle is green glass with a pull tab cap

The back of Al Noor business card
"AUTHENTIC
ARABIAN CUISINE
905 688 0006"
A QR code center.
"121 GENEVA STREET. ST
Catherines
alnoorkitchen@gmail.com"
With 5 gold stars in a row centered at the bottom

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 03/08/2025

Not perfect but a lot more functional. Pocket added on the body side between a seam. Zippered lining pouch to hide pin backings, and a zippered inner that closes fully and not just dangling open on the sides.

Showing off the whole bag in its current usable state. All my pin collection has been transferred over and there is more than half of the front bottom area that is empty on this new purse. It is a hanging against a full coat rack.

The lining zipper opened up showing off the PIN backings that are hidden between the linings

The bag opened up revealing the zipper that fully closes underneath the flap

The bag zipped up with the flap up showing the zipper that reveals the pin backings in between the linings and the zipper that opens up the main compartment

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 03/08/2025

Decided to pull the trigger and rework a new purse out of good parts from my old one and a thrifted Temu bag that someone clearly ordered and realized the design was largely not functional. Stole a zipper pouch from the old one so it's real and I have to finish what I started 😅

A screenshot of the Temu listing of the original bag that I am altering "vintage canvas messenger bag with straps retro style multiple compartments adjustable shoulder" for $45.76 CAD in the color carbon black k

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 31/07/2025

I broke my favourite pipe accidentally while complaining over the phone to Canada Post about their refusal to stop delivering a newspaper I requested a stop to because it was classified as a community newspaper. The replacement can't stand upright so I made a foot. 🐓

My new pipe, a cheap clearance sale red eye glass pipe with a home made stainless steel smoking screw and a galvanized steel wire art foot in a shape resembling a bird's foot with a center wrapped leg and crude wrap around the pipe at the balance point.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 22/07/2025

Did our first table reading, really looking forward to working with the rest of the cast! Also really have to practice the song I'm singing since as always I'm a baritone pretending I'm a tenor 😅

A photocopied cover of a script
"Fun Home

Music by
Jeanine Tesori

book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron

Based on the graphic novel by
Alison Bechdel"

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 12/07/2025

Looking at my pedal board situation again, it's not really urgent since I haven't played live in a while, but I think it's finally time to look at alternatives boards 🥺 I've used the same early 2000s Pedal Pad by MKS (Michael Stratton) for 15 years and it might be time for a change...

My current work in progress on my pedal board configuration on my original Pedal Pad by MKS. On the board there is a Boss FV-500L Foot Volume Pedal, Boss TU-3 Chromatic tuner, Boss DD-7 Digital Delay, Boss LS-2 Line Selector, Boss FS-5U Momentary Switch, Fulltone Ultimate Octave (Octave Fuzz), Ibanez TS-9DX, Hardwire SC-2 Valve Distortion (discontinued line by Ibanez, not original knobs), Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher (original 4 channel with buffered or non buffered input), and a Voodoo Lab Pedal Commander

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 08/07/2025

This is my favourite custom warning sign in Port Colborne... I can't help but feel posts would be more effective...

A picture of a wall next to a drive through turn. The wall has an air conditioning unit to the left and a generac generator backup right. On the wall between is an orange warning sign "WARNING PLEASE DO NOT PLOW OVER THESE UNITS"

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 01/07/2025

Table Saw < 💪 Radial Arm Saw 💪 > Mitre Saw

The work in progress photo of a table taking shape as I build a table and fence for my radial arm saw around a cabinet for a different model radial arm saw of the same series for my vintage craftsman 10" radial arm saw.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 29/06/2025

@whatsmypot.com finally got my hands on a graphics card that can fit in my headless server... Things are about to get interesting 😅

Picture taken at my desk in front of mouse and mouse pad holding an Hp Gt730 Graphics 2g Server Industrial Computer Card 802315-001 that I removed from the refurbished computer I acquired as the onboard graphics will be sufficient for its new use.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 22/06/2025

I think El Bluntos tobacco-free blunts have to be one of my favorite products to come out of the Canadian legal market. At the price they're not an everyday thing, but they are super nice.

Me with my feet up sitting on my porch seem blurred in the background behind me holding an El Bluntito Pacifico with a beautiful bed of ash on the tip

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 03/06/2025

At work today I backed up a business critical WD Blue Disk Drive from 2012 that runs XP Embedded with proprietary drivers for a custom FireWire card and attached printer as well as the associated printer controller software. I don't think there's hope for emulating this bare metal connection either.

Me holding a WD Blue 320 GB 3.5" hard disk drive that had the date of 2012 on the drive

Chkdsk running on the windows XP monitor

Clonezilla live screen showing that it's copying over a drive on the monitor.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 01/06/2025

Love it when a plan comes together... getting there. Just making some final tweaks and proofing.

A screenshot of the 2 posters I've been working on in Inkscape.
The details cannot be made out but it is seen that they are for G. D'Angelo printing company limited and are for the Fujifilm Acuity HD 2504 printer. The top is a maintenance calendar with a column for months on the left and the number of days running left to right for each month. the bottom is a maintenance guide with 9 tasks, their frequency to be performed, and the task SOP for each in cards.
Both posters are 48" wide by 20" tall, meant to be mounted by the printer.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 25/05/2025

Clancy debuted the Cosplay that I made for her. Love how the lemon dress 🍋

Clancy standing in front of the curtained window at the hotel before the con in her Miss Valentine cosplay with the lemon dress I made her. She is posed in white shoes and gloves, holding a yellow umbrella and posing with a smirk. Her blond wig is cut in a bob like the character and her big plastic lemon earrings are prominent framing her face. The yellow dress is a 60s cut stuff cotton dress and has fabric lemons adorning it with 3 being pockets.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 24/05/2025

The programming job market right now in a single LinkedIn post....

A linked in post, picture censored with 😬, name and connection relationship hidden with 🆒🆒🆒🆒. The post is by someone with the description ".NET Developer | ASP.NET Core | C..."
The post states, "I'm happy to share I'm starting a new position as Shift Supervisor at Krispy Kreme!"

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 04/05/2025

Oooooooh boy does this sound great after a wee setup. Still think I might lower the bridge just a hair but am debating on the best approach for the large crack. Debating matching a wood filler then clear coat, or just say fuck it and polyurethane the sucker...

A close up picture from the sound hole to the end of the body behind the bridge showing off the cleaned and leveled crack after the braces have dried into place, the crevice has been cleaned, and the top leveled down flush around the crack. There is missing gloss now along the right of the crack where I have removed polyurethane and a minute amount of wood to get it back flush.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 03/05/2025

Speaking of my band from 10 years ago, the drummer had gifted me a Washburn 12 string that he had got for free in rough shape with a raised crack on the top and a few other nicks and cracks. Finally thought to pull it out and glued in some basswood braces, still needs some cosmetic work but playable

A 0.6x zoom photo of the inside of a 2008 Washburn D10SCE/12 acoustic 12-string guitar. 2 small, thin wooden braces has been added with signs of fresh glue still visibly drying around it where the one visible brace is seen. The second brace is further into the body, obscured behind a stock top brace where a drop of glue is seen running down the side from the application of glue in-between the lifted top and stock brace.

A photo of the 2008 Washburn D10SCE/12 acoustic 12-string guitar leaning on my couch with a wooden plank across the top clamped on with two small Irwin clamps

Close up photo of the structural repair on the 2008 Washburn D10SCE/12 acoustic 12-string guitar after removing the clamps and board to reveal a hair line crack where the yellowed glue is slightly visible.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 01/05/2025

Made some keyhole weather guards for the antique Yale Canada door hardware. Way better than the old paper that was shoved in there and now the lock is 100% functional and draft free.

The back of the door plate with a wooden frame and brush weather stripping for the keyhole attached with gorilla tape.

The front of the antique brass Yale Canada door plate with newly installed brushes visible blocking the keyhole

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 29/04/2025

Can't stop staring at it 😅 Turned out great! Now I just need to fix up the mess I made getting it to sit nice.

The installed classical craftsman door casing. The bottoms of the sides have been cut tapering around the uneven surface of the concrete block with a tight custom fit.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 28/04/2025

Recreating the look of the original trim from my house that was built in 1924 for the side entrance that they butchered at some point after the renovations in the 1950s. Not exactly the same but definitely captured the look!

The original wood trim painted white now after previous owners painted layers of different trim colours.

The recreated wood trim laying in my driveway as I prep the replacement pieces. Top down it is made of a 3/4" board routed with a double roman ogee, a 1-1/4" show mould, a 5" wide 3/4" board, a 5/16" by 1-1/4" rounded edge pine flat capping the top section on the bottom where a 4" by 3/4" board meets for the side casing meets.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 22/04/2025

The skids across the street hung up a straight pride flag. So I installed a new pole and flag myself.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 19/04/2025

Pinner pinner, joints then dinner 🌲💨

A small joint next to a standard bic later with the takeoff cannabis store branding

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 18/04/2025

Prepping the front door for a fresh coat of paint. I love my front door ❤️🤭

My front door, a painted black wood door that is original to the 1924 built house. The door has a larger glass pane window center at the top and the bottom 2/3 is made up of 3 beveled panels. I've applied a floral window film to the window, below it center is a gold turn style manual door bell I installed, above that is a label that says, "Turn to ring bell." and below there it there is a wood placket with raw edge from a wafer section of a logs length, it is hanging from a loop of sisal rope from a command hook, painted on the wood there is a frog anthropomorphically standing upright to the left with the words "Welcome To our pad" with a couple mushrooms below. To the left of the doorbell is a patched white hole from where I removed the peep hole. On the left hand side the door hardware is seen, there are two brass deadbolt keyholes above the antique glass knob.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 17/04/2025

I filled the thing that made me laugh when I first looked at my house. For some reason there was a peep hole literally inches below the plain glass window. I was the one who installed the privacy window film 😅

Picture of my front door with the top half of the window with floral window film on the black painted wood door center is a hole with wood filler over a dowel filler. To the right is a white label with the text "Turn to ring bell." Above a gold turn crank doorbell I installed after moving in.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 16/04/2025

I always loved all the neat products for making our installations smoother and cleaner. From lath and plaster, the advent of gypsum sheet goods, to modern innovations we've come a long way. Not sponsored but if you have a tedious space for corners Richard wet & set is super easy to work with.

The label from a Richard Wet & Set water activated joint tape 2 inch by 75 ft roll gelding in my lap with one hand

Picture facing the entrance showing off all the corners taped with Richard wet & Set.

Picture facing into the closet showing off all the corners taped with Richard wet & Set.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 15/04/2025

Picked up tape today so onward we progress.

The same closet space I'm finished with further progress and taping started. The slanted ceiling seam is still not taped but the side seams are. Using Richard Water activated adhesive paper corners for the angles and Fibatape for flat sheet seams.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 15/04/2025

Thrift score for my brother, 1970's Olympia SM9 Deluxe Portable Typewriter

Picture of the white Olympia SM9 Deluxe Portable Typewriter out of it's case sitting on my black and square patterned grey rug.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 14/04/2025

I'm at the home project stage of unemployment 😅 figured I really need to finish this storage space so cleared out and started mudding. Once I get this done I'll pop in a coat rack, paint, and then put in some floor. I have had everything to do it on hand at this point except maybe a few consumables.

A cubby under my stairs that has fresh drywall and the mudding process started. This shot is a first pass with lite sand plus 20 before collecting the family drywall tools from my dad and I was just working from a coffee bucket

A cubby under my stairs that has fresh drywall and mudding process done. This shot is a second pass of mudding with sheetrock 20 after collecting the family drywall tools from my dad.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 09/04/2025

Now I need to make the hat 🪡🧵👗🧢

The dress I've been making all put together with orange collar trim and decorative fabric lemons. Now you can see it's a cosplay dress for Miss Valentine from One Piece.

A picture of the character Miss Valentine from One Piece.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 09/04/2025

And three are pockets 🍋🍋🍋

My hand in the right hand pocket of the lemon dress with it hanging in the corner of my living room above my sewing machine.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 09/04/2025

Getting so close, we now have a lemon dress( front)!

The front of the yellow dress with 7 fabric lemons attached to the front. The dress is hanging in front of my front door.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 07/04/2025

Functionally a dress! But we're making this a cosplay so it doesn't stop here 🪡🧵

The yellow dress with zipper installed and a hem on the bottom to length.
I also tapered the neck to the chest for a better fit by pulling the section apart at the seams, making the adjustments, then refinishing the seams.

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Cole Sante Warner @colesantewarner.ca · 07/04/2025

Honestly, I was taught very traditional approaches by my great grandmother using her 15-91, on my 328k I basically use the zig zag 90% of the time and swap out a zipper foot for the remainder. Most are more specialized and I rarely need to reach for them.

A Singer 161127 zipper foot stamped GTBRITAIN sitting next to the one attached to my Singer 328k, a Singer 179600 zig zag foot.

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