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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You just weren't listening carefully, groceries were far cheaper on day one than at any point after that.

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 30/09/2026

When slides earn their place they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them - Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the resulting principles. martinfowler.com/articles/nev...

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Principles for effective slides

When slides help a presentation, and the principles that make them work.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you go and watch Odin in Heart of the Beast please think long and hard before making the lifetime commitment of bringing a working line dog into your life. The shelters are full of 2 year old German Shepherds who went from cute puppies to big problems without any of the foundation training.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking forward to watching F1 in Baku this weekend, and most importantly the return of paddock cats. Hopefully Ruth Buscombe is providing strategy commentary again. #F1 #KittyAntonelli #MaxPurrstappen #CharlesLeclaw #Baku #TheTumbleattheCastle

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We grow our own and for some of the types a full head would strip the finish off your cookware. Store garlic is always underwhelming in flavour.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seeing more of this "tip" to change your outgoing voice message on your cell phone if lost and your battery is low. Don't, far better use of your remaining battery time is have your position ready (something precise like grid co-ords or 3-words) and call 911, the call will be recorded.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’d watch it just to hear the diver scream “Oh come on, seriously!?!?“ through a SCUBA regulator

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I prepare slides they are to support a discussion or a talk and I'll usually refuse to send them, the document can either be built to stand-alone or be a tool in the presentation. I've NEVER run into a document that does both well.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rush was great last night in Montreal. Everyone was working hard to put on a awesome show.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Re Induction stoves: Ability to bring a big corn pot to a rolling boil in 3 minutes, seriously cool, the ability to incinerate an omelette in the time it takes to turn around and get a plate from the cabinet because you missed off and accidentally set turbo, significantly less cool

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love that Amazon is preventing me from buying water based contact cement since it thinks the price is unreasonable for contact cement. Water based is usually 5-10x more expensive but the algorithm doesn't see the difference. I'm only on Amazon because no Canadian hardware store stocks it.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Extended the lunch break about 20 minutes and finally finished the workbench decks. Now things can start returning to where they belong instead of the current shop-wide chaos. Nancy is irked her workbench is covered in my homeless tools and fixing that would be a good idea.

Long view down new Formica covered wokbench in the shop

Wide view of the new Formica covered wokbenches in the west end of the shop.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I can’t believe it’s come to this but I have to ask: which of your allies is he threatening to bomb now?

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Scientific fact: Auroras and Eclipses both cause the formation of stratus clouds. Based on extensive observations from my back deck.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

UNCLOS is completely unambiguous on this point: If someone else at sea calls for assistance you must respond. The US is not bound by the agreement but has stated they view it the same as customary marine law. Whoever was the captain of Zuckerberg's boat needs to lose their masters certificate.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But then how would he demonstrate the extent and sharpness of his claws???

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It should be possible to buy high spec kitchen appliances where the higher price is due to better quality parts, higher reliability and a longer operating life, rather than a "smart" wifi connection that enables me to start the dishwasher when I'm overseas.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Through skilled use of bookmarks and highlighters the victim leaves a detailed description of the killer and they are caught.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Was very disappointed a few weeks ago to discover my city library doesn't have this anywhere in their collection.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Taking a break from the news and fitting new cabinets as the base of the new workbench/saw station.

Cabinet carcasses lined up against shop wall

Cabinet carcasses being built and stacked up in the shop

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're actually lucky, we are way out in the country but have an outpost library in our village. Books put on hold are usually here in a day or so.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shopping for a new dishwasher, why the unholy hell do I need my phone to operate all the features of the dishwasher I am standing right in front of?!?

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I feel envy for those that can put down a book that isn’t working for them. Once I’m a few pages in I’m pretty much unable to stop a book unless it becomes deeply offensive in some way.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The operative word being sorely, it looks like a long way to the ground.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Notice the different cover for The Shattering Peace. When one of your books is published how many different covers are there? Is it a regional market specialization thing?

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yup, wearing the respirator when outside and taking it off when I get to the relatively clean air of the shop

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New whole home Heat Pump on its way, very environmentally sensitive of our old traditional AC to motivate us by blowing up its compressor on one of the hottest days of the year. #WeMayMelt #DorothyYouFool #KitchenCabinetBudgetGonzo

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Are we not really just wishing the cat luck in its plan to convert the two part-time serving staff to full-time positions?

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

He kinda missed the hill, more like the open sewage pit at the bottom of the valley.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If you think it is ”your” bed, you’ve never had a pair of big shepherds. Sometimes they decide to allow us humans a slice of the space.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think this story points to how awesome he is as a mayor, but lets circle back to the part where there is a rule about wearing a suit and tie in the pool? How often does that happen in NYC that there needs to be a rule about it??

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Someone dropped a port-a-potty into the Rapide Plat Lock (middle channel of the Lock 23/SCUBA Palace Dive) near Morrisburg. Now the coast guard has to bring a crew in at taxpayer expense to recover it, good job whoever thought that was funny.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

As a kid, one of the great things was that my parents had kept decades worth of National Geographic and Scientific American magazines. You could go into our basement and look up great articles on pretty much any subject in the sciences or engineering. Sad to see both fall from great to useless.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Few things are nicer than a well adjusted high quality tool

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Just some quick math, to get to 25-50ppm of hydrogen peroxide you would need to add around 2-3000 gallons of hydrogen peroxide to the water within a day. I don't think they have enough bottles.

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Susan Tedeschi #bluesmusic Photo by Andrew Lepley

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/06/2026

I am sure that all the astronauts in the newly announced Artemis crew are eminently qualified and I don't in any way wish to detract from their accomplishments but I think it would have been a nice progression if the crews of each of the five Artemis missions included more women than the one before.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Busy evening at the shop, levelled the new saw table frame to .1mm, finished the new slab flattener base, and Mother Nature is putting on a bit of a show. Now onto the saw table carcass itself.

Laminated plywood beam subframe for a saw table on a workbench.

Slab flattener mounted in baltic ply base

View of developing sunset through shop window to the west

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As a Canadian more than a little concerned for our southern neighbours, I have to say: for a country that makes as much noise as you do about democracy, you seem to do a very bad job of it

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

When the parallel clamps are just a little too short but the pipe clamps are way too long.

Frame of laminated plywood beams clamped with pipe clamps far too long for the job

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And with that there is no reason to watch Paramount or CBS anymore (in all honesty, we won’t be missing much, kind of a weak catalogue) #Colbert

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Edge may have done great things with dotted-eighth delay with the Streets Have No Name, etc but David Gilmour playing the intro sequence to Pink Folyd's Run Like Hell live and perfectly in the pocket still sets the bar for all others.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Not to scare people from SCUBA diving, diving within recreational limits is VERY safe. Most "dive" accidents in recreational dives are actually normal medical emergencies that happened to occur while the diver was underwater.

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My dive group has a rule, anybody can call the dive at any time for any reason, and you cannot give them a hard time about it, not even a joke. When I go into a wreck, or anywhere there is an overhead restriction I run triple redundancy, strict gas planning, and strict pers and team procedures. 2/2

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Corey Groves 🇨🇦 @coreyg2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

News out of Maldives is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating if accurate. Nobody diving on recreation equipment has any business going to 200ft of depth let alone into an overhead environment. Dive the limits of your training and use your judgment. 6 people are dead because nobody said no. 1/2

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