Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Having once in that era gotten forty pages of fanfold like that code bug free I have a sense of the accomplishment. 071 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Los Angeles used to be, by itself, the 7th largest economy in the world. It's probably still way up there. What can one say about a fool who says the US doesn't need that, except he's a fool. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ASL might work better with dogs than speech. My dog's gesture vocabulary is bigger than her oral vocabulary. 020 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm delighted to see Merriam-Webster citing the OED, my two favourite English language dictionaries. 131 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ackman's remark reminds me of the old Lone Ranger and Tonto joke - "What you mean 'we' white man?" 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Venezuela? Chile. Cuba at least twice. Canada after the revolution and again in 1812. Grenada. Panama. Mexico in the 1840s. There's probably more direct military incursions I'm unaware of. And then there's the puppet dictators. And hasn't he talked about bombing Mexico? 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When I open the vise on my work bench in the basement she comes from wherever she is in the house. I use it to cut pieces of bully stick. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My dog would have done the same. What fun is an obedient dog? 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is it possible his brain is really occupied with concerns like this?? 001 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My recurring question is what part of watching people being killed is entertaining. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good show but two quibbles. If life on earth were destroyed asset values would not be irrelevant they would be zero. Put that in your risk analysis model. If there is a probability of catastrophic death these companies should not be held accountable, they ought to have been shut down already. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I sometimes wonder whether Trump actually writes these blurts but the fact that "they" lacks an antecedent leads me to think it's the product of a defective mind, so I'm plumping for Trump with a spell checker. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here in Canada we still recognize the Transborder Commission and both apps name it Lake Ontario. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Witness for the Prosecution also Billy Wilder, Dietrich in a role that suits her and a brilliant Agatha Christie plot. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Meanwhile in Canada we've decided to rename Lake Michigan in honour of Donald Trump but are split over Lake Flaccid and Lake Dementia. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I just listened to the Spitzer episode and it's up there with the railroad bond fiasco. As a non-American what I found especially striking is how reliant regulation in the US seems to be on individuals who come and go. It doesn't look like there exists an effective and consistent system. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This could be a good thing if you're not North Korea. It depends on who you think the enemy is in Trump 2.0 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The only time I let my dog off leash was when we saw her best friend Lana the Lab about fifty yards away. No problem. Lana was with a little spaniel who had just had her first shots. My darling attacked the puppy. That was enough for me. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My Vaquita would have been like that as a pup in Mexico City. Now she has a home and a pack she can trust to not hurt her. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It's a book well worth reading, especially if read with Sherman's. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Bernese are a special breed. I live with a one time Mexican street dog and she is wary of all other dogs. But she plays with Bernese. 060 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 13/08/2026To quote Frank Zappa: We're only in it for the money. 030 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 27/07/2026You can look to Poland and Hungary for examples of the problem of recovering from whatever you want to call this, that is assuming you get out of it, not a foregone conclusion from my side of the 49th parallel. 0100 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Wouldn't that make him a loser? Could he face that? 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Of course if you stopped dropping bombs on other people maybe they wouldn't get so upset with you. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Rack upon rack of well ventilated cardboard boxes and pallets. A perfect pyre. I spent many years working in warehousing and I can't help wondering at the cost of replacing a distribution centre that size that was presumably loaded with product. I'm glad it's not my problem. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Hard to get out of that bed and out the door as I recall. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Call me a Canadian but officers shooting anyone running away for whatever reason is murder 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Watching its eyes, it clearly does not like having the camera pointed at it and is saying so. I don't know why but some dogs, including mine, don't like cameras. If you respect your dog, bear this in mind. 020 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Carravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew, just thinking of it sends shivers up my spine. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I think that (at least) the Canadian government sees no point in trying to negotiate with Trump and is waiting for his departure. 100 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026By what measure are Americans the richest people in the world? When was the last time a plurality cared about anything but their own economic situation? 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I was hoping he'd followed precedent and done it in the Hall of Mirrors. 130 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I wish they had marked which syllable has the stress. Two quite different possible meanings. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 30/05/2026You'd put that ahead of running a marathon in under 2 hours? 100 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 28/05/2026May I respectfully suggest you stop using Google Docs? 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Wendell Berry wrote that businesses treat resources like garbage and people like resources. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Here in Canada we once had a disgraced politician borrow a neighbour's dog for a soulful photo op. Could be something like that. 000 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I keep reading about truces in which people are shot and killed but I think a better term is one from WWII. Early on it was the phony war. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Thanks for the idea. Something to look forward to. 010 0
Alvin Cuthand @cuthand.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What's striking to me is that he swallows this in silence while huffing and puffing about Spain, UK and Germany. Not the US gov't I grew up with. 130 0
