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Peter Coffman
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Architectural Historian; Supervisor of History & Theory of Architecture program @carleton.ca‬. https://carleton.ca/aah/people/peter-coffman/ Photographer. Pilgrim. Occasionally a writer. Chief of Staff to two cats. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.
Similar age, I came home from “The Changeling” and from the driveway heard water running in the house next door - which had been empty for months. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know….

Turned out a pipe had burst.
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Yikes! At first I thought those were your boots sticking out, and I wondered ‘how on earth is she posting from inside there?’ 😬
January 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I see you have a bird feeder - Coopers Hawks frequently feed on small birds (usually smaller than pigeons). I once saw one take a sparrow from a shrub.
January 2, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Is this your gentle way of telling me that we’re never going to be able to recreate dinosaurs from bits of amber?
December 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
That would explain the error, pinpoint the incompetence, and locate the root of the rot!
December 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I am gobsmacked by the fact that this potential problem and solution occurred to me, a mildly tech-savvy academic in the humanities, but did not occur to the United States Department of Justice.

That doesn’t mean that I’m brilliant. It means that they are incompetent. 3/3
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I tested the plan by highlighting redacted text in the PDF, copying it, and pasting it into a new MSW document. Sure enough, it appeared in full. Nothing was hidden.

So, I deleted the text instead, replacing it with the word ‘redacted’. 2/3
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM