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Halibut Barn
@halibutbarn.bsky.social
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Not really my main social media platform, mainly here just to follow cool people. If you're reading this because I followed you, you're cool! (You do not need to follow back; I am not cool.)

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Welp, time for my decennial haircut...
A photo of a pile of bits of hair of various lengths on a bathroom floor.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The Retro Pals (well, their emojis) admiring the beauty of a sleepy kitty named Bella. Emojis by snoutsprout.
December 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Well...that's reassuring...
A screenshot from the game No Man's Sky, of a Korvax named Technician Sutovoro aboard my freighter, and by their name is the status "Not considering mutiny".
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Ominous Fog in Calgary this morning.
A photo of downtown Calgary from the 10th Street bridge, with the tops of various buildings obscured by fog. A photo looking down 4th Ave downtown, with the buildings in the distance heavily obscured by fog. A photo looking towards McDougall Centre, looking up towards the foggy tops of the buildings behind it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Hmmm, I'm having trouble finding good info on this, maybe this is something AI could actually help with?

Me: "Hey Copilot, how do I do <x>?"

Copilot: "Have you considered checking the documentation?"

...thanks Copilot, very helpful
A screenshot of a query to Copilot, where I ask "How do I give the Global Administrator role to an app registration?" Copilot responds, "To assign the Global Administrator role to an app registration, you need to follow specific steps in Azure Active Directory. This process involves granting the necessary permissions and ensuring compliance with security policies. For detailed guidance, please refer to the official Azure documentation or consult with your Azure administrator to ensure proper configuration and security practices."
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Not exactly the best sleep last night. Getting sick sucks...
A sleep state chart from last night, showing that I got 3 hours and 48 minutes of sleep, about a third of my time was spent awake, very little REM sleep, and absolutely no deep sleep.
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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"This comics bundle is great, but the covers are kinda hard to read in this reader. I'll just put it into list mode so I can see what the titles actually are..."
A screenshot of the Kobo ebook reader, showing a grid of 15 comics, every single one of which is shown with the title "Teenage Mutant Ninja..."
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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A bit smoky this morning. Despite a bad wildfire season, we've been lucky this year and haven't gotten a lot of the smoke in the city, but we couldn't avoid it forever... #yyc
A photo of the Calgary downtown skyline, with a haze of smoke obscuring many of the farther buildings. The sun is just above the horizon, an orange dot angry at how diminished its strength is, as we can look directly at it.
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Dang, 30 years ago I went into the Compucentre in Bow Valley Square and bought a spankin' new copy of Windows 95. I still have all of the floppies for it:
A photo of 14 3.5" floppy disks fanned out on top of a bedspread. The disks all say "Microsoft Windows 95" along the edge, and the top disk reads "Boot Disk" with some setup instructions.
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Beauty survives.
A photo of two red and orange flowers growing out of a crack between the parking lot asphalt and the orange brick wall of a building.
August 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I don't know if there's a collective noun for a group of cell tower antennas, but we probably need one.
A photo of the top of a building, the center of which is a pillar just riddled with rectangular cell tower antennas.
August 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Boaters on the Bow. (actually from a few weeks ago, but it's been nice again the last few days)
A photo of a large number of small rafts and such making their way down the Bow river.
August 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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You thought this was a sidewalk? No, it is a parking lot now.
A group of 6 parked e-scooters almost completely blocking a nice, wide sidewalk.
July 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A bit damp this morning.
July 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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All from a short walk today.
A photograph of an e-scooter left right in the middle of a sidewalk going up a hill. A photograph of an e-scooter parked to block not only a narrow sidewalk, but a crosswalk as well. A photograph of two e-scooters on a sidewalk. The one on the left is blocking most of the sidewalk, and the one on the right is on the edge, but tipped over.
July 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Left work early but didn't quite beat the sudden storm cell home. I managed to make it to the Peace Bridge for shelter at least, unlike these poor boaters.
July 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Got my daily walk in before the temps got unbearable, and ran across a whole bunch of Canada geese on Canada Day.

I'm sure some of these are goslings I've caught in previous photos, now nearly fully grown.
A large flock of Canada geese at Prince's Island Park, crossing the walkway to get to some grass, unlike some other indecisive fowl.
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Hey, my wishlist finally loaded!

*stares at wishlist for a while*

*stares at Steam games list*

*goes back to playing Minecraft and Destiny 2...*
A screenshot of the 'Unplayed' category of my Steam games list, with a count of 1980 games that I've meant to play any day now, really, I'll get to it...I'll get to it soon...
June 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Braved the rain to see how the Bow River is doing (it's fine, no flooding), and ran across what has to be the largest flock of geese I've ever seen.
A photo of a flock of geese feeding in the grass beside a concrete pathway, in the rain. The number of geese is so high that we are going to have to start keeping track of them in terms of military squads, regiments, divisions... (I count around 55 geese, roughly.)
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I know they're just spam bots but dang, they really need to update their scripts.
A Wordpress comment that says "Hi, neat post. There is a problem with your site in Internet Explorer, would you check this? IE still is the market leader and a big portion of people will miss your magnificent writing due to this problem." Flattery might get you everywhere, except when it triggers your internal statistics pedant.
June 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I swear, people are deliberately parking these things to be as annoying as possible.
Two e-scooters, parked on a bridge so as to completely block the pedestrian path on one side.
June 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We're getting a bit of wildfire smoke haze here in Calgary, though it doesn't smell too bad at the moment.
A photo looking over the Bow river towards the 10th Street bridges, where the buildings on the left and in the distance past the bridges are obscured by a light haze.
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Now this is my kind of day, 18-20C, light breeze, just enough cloud to keep the sun from being too oppressive...
A photo of downtown Calgary, from the west, including various towers, the 10th Street bridge, the Bow river, and some wisps of clouds in a bright blue sky.
May 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Today's walk I was thinking about how much the river has changed since I've been here. This gravel island under the 10th St bridge didn't really exist prior to the 2013 flood. You could see a tiny patch when the river was low, that's it, and now this large island is a permanent fixture.
A photograph of the 10th Street bridge, taken from a distance, where you can see a gravel island underneath the bridge. The island is now covered in grasses and a tree. A closer-up photograph of the gravel island underneath the 10th Street Bridge.
May 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM