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Today was a really rough day, I went to bed at 12:30 AM yesterday, and after changing the tires I got home at four, ate some pizza hut pizza, and went to take a power nap, this lasted from 4:30PM till 5:55PM and I woke up with a slightly upset stomach, laiken had just canceled on jiu jitsu, and I was feeling like I might not go myself. This is the story of why I’m so glad I did.

I tried to run a Power automate flow today, and got something of an unusual error:

I started today looking to map out why the english channel is so dangerous, and in the process stumbled upon WreckSite EU Which is a database of major shipwrecks, since the search bar limited what I was allowed to lookup I tried to find the deepest shipwreck imaginable. this lead me to the discovering the story of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. Here’s the result of that.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 19 - (GIS Day) Focus entirely on map projections. Choose an unusual or misunderstood projection to highlight a theme, or visualize distortion. (See xkcd.com/977)

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 12 - Map something non-Earth: a fantasy realm, an exoplanet, the Moon, Mars, deep space, or a purely conceptual place (e.g., a mental map).

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 11 - Challenge yourself to use the fewest possible elements (color, line weight, labels) while keeping the map clear, useful, and informative.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 10 - Classical Elements 2/4: Focus on the atmosphere. Map weather, wind patterns, air traffic, pollution, or airborne transmission (e.g., pollen, sound).

30 Day Map Challenge - Day 7 - Accessibility: Map how people (or things) get around. Visualize travel time, barriers, inclusive design, public transport reach, or create a map that is itself highly accessible to all users.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 5 - Dimensions: Map beyond 2D. Visualize data using 3D models, extrusions (building heights), depth, time (as a dimension), or an unconventional multivariate approach.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 4 - Earth : Focus on the tangible and grounded. Map landforms, geology, soil, agriculture, elevation, or anything solid beneath your feet.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 4 : My Data Map something personal using your own dataset. Visualize GPS traces, your commute, or a unique, small dataset you created. (Need simple data? Try geojson.io)

You will never believe this.

Could just be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but feel like I’ve been hearing about the silk road more and more recently, so I decided to visualize it.

30 Day Map Challenge 2025 - Day 1: Map with point data (e.g., individual locations, points of interest, clusters). Focus on effective symbolization and density variation.

A simple demo showing the default cube rotating in space.

I wanted to experiment a little more with blender world backgrounds, here are the results.

Toastmasters Motivational Strategies (French) Pathway, Level 1, Evaluations and Feedback, Second Speech.

On today’s episode of stuff you can now do with Power BI that you really maybe probably really shouldn’t do, Fireworks!

I’ve always wanted to go to Waterloo, I never expect it would be like this.

Built a scam protection chrome extension for paypal didn’t win unfortunately, but a close friend did and I had an absolute blast.

I have not had time this week to post this so far what with study, But I have to express my immense thanks to everyone at #bellgeekfest and Bell for organizing such an amazing event.