Andrew J. Hutton

The Album Bigger, Faster, Better, More! Is somehow even more relevant today than when it was released.

Was anyone else led to believe that a loose axe head flying off and injuing or killing a random bystander was going to be much more of a problem than it ended up being?

What's next, building a wall around NYC and designating it as a federal prison?

I cannot believe he hasn't repainted the Presidential Palace in gold yet.

Just waiting to see when the USA realizes just how much of the industrial chemicals their industry depends upon are imported from China.

Everyone talks about depression as if it's an entirely bad thing. They never talk about how it helps you cope in actually overwhelmingly horrific conditions by numbing you to the constant pain and stress you're getting subjected to.

At least the weather is making the dog happy.

So not only are they trying to make it harder for USAians to collect their government pensions, they're crashing the stock market to make it harder for USAians to live off their private pensions as well.

The DOW only needs to drop another 10000 points until Trump succeeds in making America just like it was when he got fired. Oh, and a pandemic, so we have that to look forward to if bad men don't find their courage and do something.

Enough with the weekly announcements of new battery breakthroughs. Just give me the option of AA and AAA batteries that last. Testing the best Lithium Ion 1200mAh they were bright and worked great, for two hours then zero, alkaline may not be super bright after 5 hours, but you still get light.

Oh look a foot of fresh snow I can get in another ski day! Wait, here's a half inch of ice on top. You're not leaving the house and if you do it'll be miserable to ski on.

An old post episode ad for a tv show reminded me that there was in fact a CSI:Cyber at one point... I say point because I really don't think it ended up with enough shows to call it a series.

The reason Pete Hegseth has a Russian phone number and email is to ensure the records are not subject to subpoenas.

Alan Partridge was on @thedailyshow.com last night, didn't expect that.

Someone should paint a portrait that actually looks like him as retribution for the insults he has been hurling at the artist who seems to have done everything they could reasonably do to paint him in a favourable way.

@benstiller.redhour.com having just watched the Season 2 finale of Severance it finally clicked that you must be also be a fan of Patrick McGoohan, because that gave me flashbacks to the final episode of The Prisoner.

Threads followers seem to consist almost exclusively of bots pretending to be young asian women trying to perpetrate some kind of scam. On Bluesky they almost all seem to be real people. I wonder if Meta realizes they're cutting their own throat by allowing this.

Nikwax wash-in Softshell Proof smells suspiciously like white glue.

If there is a US government shutdown, does that mean there's nobody to collect the tariffs?

Winter ascent of Mt Dix on Sunday/Monday, got 500m from the summit this time before having to turn back due to lack of time and got back home by 4am.

Those last few hours after packing your gear for a multi-day solo climb but before leaving are oddly stressful. You're constantly wondering if you packed too much (and therefore too heavy) or too little and are going to be stuck cold in the mountains.

When he said nothing he could do would make Democrats happy he was lying. How did everyone resist heckling with "RESIGN".

As of now the plan is to ski and summit Mt. Dix this Sunday, if by some miracle the slides are still skiable it should make an interesting day.

Why do they think being unstable and unpredictable is something valued in business?

Some shots from my ski up Whiteface today, including the walk up to the summit. If this was a less developed area it would be quite impressive. You can in fact do this one on Nordic BC gear.

Working my way up Whiteface today. Long sleeve t-shirt weather.

After a day of frustration trying to lift the heel lift with gloves on last week, this added strap should solve the issue. I will also be adding a hook to the hiking pole basket to make it a no stooping process.

You think you're in decent shape only to discover there are several tiny muscles responsible for minor movements or general stability that are still very sore after 5 days...

Cheap TENS is absolutely one of the best modern developments in muscle pain management. Therapeutic massage is probably better, but the cost is prohibitive.

The intense pain in some of my leg muscles is almost gone. Guess that means it's time to plan the next climb.

@google you might want to look at your activity tracker, it really isn't good. The fact you can't edit the automated data and it doesn't consider elevation in calculating calories make it useless. It believes that climbing Giant in winter, wearing snowshoes, consumes just over 700kCal, that's insane

It seems that thinking I would ski today after summiting Giant yesterday was optimistic. Probably could, but it would be unpleasant. Maybe stretching and skiing tomorrow is more sensible.

From the summit of Giant via the Rocky Ridge trail.

The view from Giant today.

Time to get back out on some ice. Lots of Nordic and AT skiing in the last two weeks but it's hard to beat pulling on axes.

Getting back out skiing sure reminds me that exercise is an ongoing process and not making time for it makes absolutely everything else a lot more work.

There are two kinds of people, ones who stick with their original pick of three boxes, and ones who always change their choice after one of the three options is removed. Only one of these people understands probability, the other will argue forever that there's no difference.

I wonder if Trump knows where new aluminium comes from and how it gets refined, of course he doesn't. Good luck living entirely on recycled USA, you're so good at recycling, because once the electricity is cut off you're not going to be able to refine it yourself.

There is no longer any advantage to Canada purchasing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. We should cancel the contract and take another look at non-US options like the Saab Gripen. www.davidgraham.ca/p/canada-sho...

The fact that one person does all of the voices in Desert Skies is absolutely astounding.

Why don't Americans realize that when the ultimatum their government gives to Canada is to join the USA or suffer the results of this trade war that is on all of them. They're a democracy, if they didn't support this economy expansionism they would not have voted for a madman.

For more than 20 years, Canada and the United States have had the “Safe Third Country Agreement” which operates on the principle that a person claiming refugee status must do so in the first safe country in which they arrive. It is time for Canada to withdraw from that agreement.

The version of the Screwtape Letters read by John Cleese is still one of the great audiobook listens.

What's the difference between content theft on social media and content theft of traditional media? Generally traditional media content creators still get attribution. Should that not be enough for them? After all, nobody seems to care at all about the other group of creators.

Managed a third day out on the ice this week, so Wed, Thurs and Sunday... On Sunday it was nearly twenty below but somehow it was a nice comfortable day other than a couple instances of cold hands from gripping the axes a bit too tight.

One thing nobody ever warns you about mountain climbing is how much sewing you are going to end up having to do.

New #wilty that's part of tonight dealt with while I go over gear yet again to pack for another day of climbing.

The best part of any day is going to the microwave to reheat something and discover what it was you reheated yesterday and then forgot about.