Christopher Solar 🇨🇦

It's just a lot of black Escalades driving Spec Ops dudes around.

Burrito Man needs to know who is the Alpha in this relationship.

My theory: he really wants to dig that 401 tunnel and this is him being clever about what to do with all the rocks and dirt.

If this is 30 that would make me...oh never mind.

Music app screenshot with "underworld: second toughest in the infants" playing.

No way this album is 30 years old; I remember buying the CD like it was yesterday.

If the jet was a gift from Qatar, then yes you get to keep it. Otherwise, no.

The flip side is that for any ride that *isn't* just my 4km/4m toodle into work, Strava freaks out: "OH MY GOD YOU ARE A BEAST POWER IS OFF THE CHARTS."

Strava notification for a short ride to work: "Nice climb! You climbed 4m during your recent activity. Learn more with Workout Analysis."

I really appreciate how Strava calls out my epic KOMs from the ride to work, and the in-depth Workout Analysis is key to unlocking even greater achievements (I'm targeting a 5m climb this summer, stay tuned!)

Giving couch-cushion fort vibes.

There were some skaters but don't know how fun it was, with blades sinking into the mush!

I just walked across the ice and it's very very soft!

There's a button they press to flip the "M" over when they need War-a-Lago mode.

Summer? We're getting summer?

Heading out for a McLiver and fries, or maybe some Liver McNuggets.

Walnut top, legs, and rails. Painted plywood slats with applied copper from the Parliament buildings. 99"L x 28"H.

A long curving console table with a dark walnut top and legs and a wraparound facade of wooden slats painted with a vibrant abstract pattern in primary colours.

Detail photo of the left end of the table showing the painted slats wrapping around the curved end of the table.

Detail photo of the right end of the table showing the painted slats wrapping across the face and around the curved end of the table.

Latest work: a big curving console table created in collaboration with artist Jason Baerg. I designed and built the structure and sent Jason a box of bare wooden slats. He painted them with this vibrant design and sent them back. I attached reclaimed copper over top, and put it all together.

The artwork is just a little memento, something to help you remember the last time you saw your bike before it was stolen.

aka the "wheel bender" rack

He can't wait to get started working together deleting the stories that move the world (for the tax write-offs).

It's a bike lane with a big picture of a bike on it but sure, any other use takes priority 🙃

Thanks to the @shawnmenard.bsky.social team this is being addressed (I hope) but I can't help but imagine a world in which a construction contractor (and their city overseers) wouldn't just dump signs in a bike lane and say, "yeah, that's a good spot for this sign for the next 5 years."

Forcing me to vote in a federal election with just a pencil and a piece of paper, like some caveman.

Every time I read about this cranky old billionaire who owns the only river crossing my mental image is Walder Frey.

When a small country is really really into one sport and that sport has a shitload of medals on offer at the games?

Speedskating sure has a lot of events, but they should take a medalmaxxing tip from swimming and add a whole set of races just for backwards skating.

Me: oh phew, the bike lanes are finally open again!
City: screw you, cyclists!

The recent lane closure was not Lansdowne 2.0, it was bridge work, but these stupid construction signs are for Lansdowne. Two signs blocking the bike lane plus another sign taking half the sidewalk.

Our mayor sure does love using his personal website to promote city business.

Once again: if this is the city's vision for the market, why isn't it on a city web page? Why am I being directed to mark sutcliffe dot ca? Aren't you the mayor?

There's a ski jumping / nordic ski center overlooking Oslo and getting there is easy on the light rail system.

A carton of Marlboro cigarettes on a store shelf. The warning label on the package reads "DEATH CUTS EFFCIENCY".

Eventually these warnings will break through.