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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦

@shayman.bsky.social
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That guy who was @shayman on that other thing; former musical dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band of the #CFL. Recently retired from that big fruit company. Photo above is the launch of Apollo XI. (I have a better camera now.)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, hang on, a desktop pencil case made from floppies? Hmm…. youtu.be/YNqYEMuoQAI?si=TQIn3...
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So… #CFL in Québec… It's time to adopt the mighty Narwhal. ("Narval" en Français.) THINK OF THE HATS YOU COULD SELL WITH A TUSK COMING OUT OF THE FRONT. Les Narvals de Québec. A mighty whale found in the Canadian arctic - including in northern Quebec, with a fearsome tusk coming out of its head.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some researcher on LinkedIn wants my view on John Ternus's leadership. "This is for the internal use of a single investor client looking into promising businesses and leaders. " Um, I dunno, I guess he's a nice guy, I don't think I ever actually met him, and I'm retired anyway, so how's that?
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Six years ago today, a Canadian-based team finally won the Stanley Cup. That was weird.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's a shot! Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Another shot. Right in front, they score! Henderson has scored for Canada! I know where I was 54 years ago right about now. (Watching the game in Grade 9 English class.)
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
selfie video creators with iPhones, I'm begging you: Settings > Camera > Mirror Front Camera, turn this OFF. If you don't, then the text on your shirt, on your hat, on that sign in the background is backwards. And it's very distracting.
A view of the Camera settings on an iPhone, with "Mirror Front Camera" turned OFF
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ARRRRRRRGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just back from seeing and thoroughly enjoying John Wilson's "The History of Concrete." Although I didn't learn much about the history of concrete, it was still a fun mind-bending free-association journey of random this and that and you should go see it, especially if you liked HBO's "How To"
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M.J. @sportsandplants.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He opened for kid rock this year, participated in the bud light boycott and has a song praising general lee
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Uh oh.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now that fall is here, it's time for the annual Canadian tradition where we all say "Who? Never heard of him. Couldn't the #CFL get <some act that I like that other people have never heard of> ? Were there no Canadians available? Can't we have BTO do 'Taking Care of Business' every year?"
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Riley Green to headline Bud Light Grey Cup Halftime Show
Riley Green will headline the Bud Light Grey Cup Halftime Show at the 113th Grey Cup in Calgary.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
oh, REDBLACKS, we were ALL wishing that field goal didn't make it
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Dave Till @davetill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please allow me to contribute this to your discussion - I took this photo in 2019 near where I live. I would like to join your potato fan club if memberships are still available.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My two most quoted and reposted and liked posts over the past few months have both been about potatoes. I didn't realize I was at the center of a potato fan club.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the Project Builder Historical Appreciation Society is saddened by the move from ".pbxproj" to ".xcodeproj" we remain happy that the prefix "NS" is still around.
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Updating your Xcode project configuration file format | Apple Developer Documentation
Configure your Xcode project to use the JSON project configuration file format that’s more human-readable and editable by coding intelligence agents.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I cannot resist the siren call of a weird USB cable
A USB cable with USB and C at one end, lightning, USB-C, and Apple Watch charger the other end
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is very strange to stumble across the world of Sports Mascots Performers on LinkedIn and realize that the person personifying the mascot for team A might've been performing for their big rival team B last year
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you didn't have a chance to make it to the Western Fair in London yet, here's the winner of the largest potato competition.
Medium sized potato
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
First Oakville Wind Orchestra rehearsal of the season last night. I have some homework - I need to watch "The Greatest Showman" and "La La Land" if I'm going to understand what it is we're playing.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This came up in my memories today Some good preso ideas, but he's completely wrong on the "There are more people alive today than have ever died" bit. Scientific American quotes a researcher who in 2002 calculated that 106 billion people have ever been born. www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
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How to Start a Speech
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looks like I picked the right time to binge-watch Widow's Bay.
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jamesez.io @jamesez.io · 14/09/2026
I found some (sketchy) USB-C "voltage adapters" that work for (most) of these terrible things: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H2PFL55L (off the .ca store)
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You want to know why I have a huge box of cables that I don't dare throw out? THIS IS WHY
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊 (@shayman@cosocial.ca)
Once again I have managed to buy a gadget that is supposedly USB-C rechargeable, but only if you use the mutant USB cable that came with it. Grrrr.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My daughter is a teacher. When students submit something with an em dash in it, she asks them "OK, show me how you type one of those."
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Andrea Junker :verified: (@Strandjunker@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image I find it absurd that the em dash is now widely perceived as an indicator of AI use. I have used it since childhood; it is part of my writing style. Sometimes inserting a brief aside within a sentence, at other times emphasizing the conclusion of a thought. In any case, I use em dashs deliberately, and I am absolutely certain that many other writers do the same.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Once again I have managed to buy a gadget that is supposedly USB-C rechargeable, but only if you use the mutant USB cable that came with it. Grrrr.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to everyone, and 14,000 Argos fans at the game, for the birthday wishes. But… I finally make it to 6-7 and now the kids aren't doing that any more? What? I thought I'd finally caught up with the trends. I guess that given I'm now 2/3 of the way there, I'll just tell people I'm "mostly 100."
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Ontario Science Centre was a wonderful Centennial project, a spectacular gift from the people of Ontario to future generations — and we should all be ashamed of how the current government is diminishing it. www.thestar.com/news/gta/onta...
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At Koerner Hall with all the other hexa-, septa-and octogenarians to see Lighthouse. All 22 of them!
Cathy and me in our seats at the side. Lighthouse on stage
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Toronto Argonauts had better not reciprocate.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's some upcoming Severance tie-in with this inner-vs-outer display thing, surely
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i have this hard to control reflex to tell my manager which one they should send me
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What I really should do is go back and watch Apple product intros from a few years ago which are still full of neat features I have yet to start using.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i do not want a folding iPhone …. i don't really need a folding iPhone … it might be kind of cool to have a folding iPhone … aaargh
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 09/09/2026
Hey Canadian Press... I fixed your headline for you.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i am excited about all these pro camera features that I'm pretty sure I will never use
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wish people would say "two times" and not "two ex" when they read "2x". i'm not going to get my wish
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After all these years, pluralization of the quantity of 1 remains one of the hardest challenges in all of computing.
Screen shot of an App Store listing  showing "1 reviews"
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every Canadian should do their patriotic duty and buy a ton of potash so that we can stop selling it to the Americans and support Canadian potash farmers, or potash miners, or whatever it is they do to make potash which about all I know is it comes from Saskatchewan
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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
* Hamilton Tigers ** Hamilton Wildcats *** Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Go, Toronto Argos Go Go Go! Pull Together, fight the Foe* Foe** Foe***! Scoring touchdowns for the Blue on Blue The Argos will win for you! * Hamilton ** Tiger *** Cats
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know, back in MY day it was still Fermat's Last Conjecture.
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In the warmup to tomorrow's Labour Day Classic, I know every Hamilton Tiger-Cat fan is busy preparing their usual repertoire of thoughtful and witty cheers and clever think-tank-inspired banners, but I would just like to remind them once again that there is no apostrophe in "ARGOS SUCK."
Ticat fans hold a banner outside the stadium saying "ARGO'S SUCK"
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am very pleased to see the announcement today that the final performance of the Snowbirds will be at the Grey Cup. As it should be.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every single article about the storm damage at Rogers Stadium has multiple misinformed replies from people who think it was Rogers Centre, and I just saw one from someone who actually claimed "those are just the temporary seats they added for the World Cup." (which was not at Rogers Anything)
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Grrrrr. fediscience.org/@petergleick/...
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Or Apple Maps could just have a setting ✅ Prefer common names over official names "Common names" gets you "Lake Ontario" and it's on by default. (h/t david harrison for this common sense revision)
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear Apple Maps Team: I know you're getting pressured. How about making it opt-in? Just have a hard-to-find switch in System Settings, "Use Incorrect Names for Bodies of Water", off by default.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wikipedia, incidentally, gets this right. Q2: Why hasn't Wikipedia changed the article name from Lake Ontario to Lake America? A2: Wikipedia uses common names over official names … no indication that "Lake Ontario" has ceased or will cease to be the overwhelmingly most common name for the lake.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A lot of this chatter about maps and Lake Ontario reminds me that many people have no idea how the web works.
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