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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 26/11/2025

Tonight's dinner - home made gluten free chicken BBQ pizza.

A large pizza crust with red onion, chicken, green peppers, red onion and banana peppers, covered in mozzarella and BBQ sauce.

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 23/11/2025

Just finished a two week run of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Had a blast. Great to back in community theatre. #stagecrew #communitytheatre

The cast and crew of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on stage.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 16/11/2025

Even this CD player is collecting dust.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 16/11/2025

Saving this show’s lighting. To floppy. #theatre

A 3.5” floppy sitting on a lighting console.

The save show dialog on an ETC lighting console. It shows the show saving to a 1.44MB floppy disk.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 12/11/2025

Only two more nights until this production goes up! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I’m on sound. S-O-U-N-D. Sound. #theatre #musicals #stagecrew

An audio mixer. Behind it, a stage with a step ladder.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11/10/2025

Anyone know what this little guy this? There’s a pile of them at this campground. #bugs #camping #ontario

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 03/10/2025

Sometimes I miss the crudeness of text based interfaces.

Setup screen on an NSI lighting console.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 29/07/2025

Having a “Zoom In” mode on a backup camera makes it so easy to hitch up the trailer. #camping

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 14/06/2025

Happy #NoKings day to everyone who celebrates.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 04/05/2025

Beautiful weekend for the tulips to be opening. And on the on 80th anniversary of Netherlands liberation too. #garden #tulips #canada #netherlands

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 19/04/2025

It look me 4 minutes from arrival to departure. Vote cast in the Canadian federal election. Get out and vote. The biggest threat to democracy is low voter turnout. The polls mean nothing if people don’t show up. #ElbowsUp #CanadaVotes #CanPoli

Me in front of a directional sign at the advance polling station.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11/03/2025

Moving web hosting from the US-owned host to Canada 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp

All-in-One WP Migrate's Import progress bar, showing 22.47%

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 10/03/2025

Moosehead releases “The Presidential Pack” - 1,461 cans of beer, enough to make it through a full presidential term. #beer #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli mooseheadbeershop.ca/products/the...

Screenshot of a FB post with a picture of a green Moosehead crate of beer.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 04/03/2025

This was long overdue. I haven't been actively using the site in a long time, but was always having FOMO around actually deactivating the account.

A screenshot of Twitter/X's deactivation confrmation screen. "Deactivated. Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #Goodbye"

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 20/02/2025

What a job title :) blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 19/02/2025

I wrote a TamperMonkey script that expands the time since post on #Bluesky to the actual date. So instead of showing "9m", "2d", etc it would show the real date/time a post was made. shawnhooper.ca/2025/02/18/b...

A Bluesky post with the full post date and time showing instead of the time since post. In this case, "Feb 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM"

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 18/02/2025

Here's how your post looks in my feed @kateconger.com:

A screenshot of the OP in this thread. The time since posting has been replaced with the full date and time.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 13/02/2025

First up on moving away from cloud services for media. Trying out Audiobookshelf (Docker version) for podcast downloading. www.audiobookshelf.org #podcast #homelab #selfhosting

Screenshot of the Library tab of the Audiobookshelf web app.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11/02/2025

My new @shehackspurple.bsky.social book "Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding" just arrived! The first book in the series, "Alice and Bob Learn Application Security" was fantastic. Looking forward to reading this one. shehackspurple.ca/books/ #appsec #coding

A book, titled "Alice & Bob Learn Secure Coding" by Tanya Janca. It has a bright yellow cover. My blue PHP Elephant is visible in the background.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11/02/2025

Google Maps adds (Gulf of America) to the Gulf of Mexico. Screenshot taken from a Canadian IP address.

Screenshot from Google Maps showing Gulf of America added to the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 02/02/2025

US Customs and Border Protection’s own numbers on drugs caught coming across the Canadian border. Fentanyl - a total of 43lbs in FY2024. Compared to 21,100lbs across the southern border. These tariffs are not about drugs coming from Canada. Data: www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta... #uspoli #canpoli

A chart showing the amount of drugs seized coming across the Canada US border. See link in post for full data.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 15/01/2025

Anyone else having a bug where the Bluesky # of notifications just keeps climbing, even after viewing them in the app? Seeing this on iOS. #bluesky

Bluesky iOS app icon with 95 notifications showing.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 25/12/2024

A magazine is always included in Christmas stockings. Even the cats got one this year.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 25/12/2024

Do you get gifts for your pets at Christmas? I do. Love this stocking.

A red and white Christmas stocking that looks like a paw print.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 15/12/2024

Places everyone. The show is about to begin.

The review from the tech booth down to the theatre stage. The lights are on, with no dancers on stage yet.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 09/12/2024

FYI, Malware scanner is flagging that site.

Dangerous Web Page alert from Norton on nickautomatic.xyz/posts/popovers/

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 08/12/2024

“I want one of those” says Murray.

Ginger fat in a cat tree. Head leaning over the edge.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 03/12/2024

The reposts & likes earned counts seem really high for me, given my measly 121 posts so far.

Posts 121
Likes learn 452222
Post Reposts 106046
Followers 517
Following 1082

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 02/12/2024

Ok, this is really neat. I just found out about the Haskell Free Library & Opera House, which is located ON the border between Vermont (US) and Québec (CA). The projector is in the US, the screen is in Canada. www.haskelloperahouse.org #canada #movies #travel #border