Bought a house today :)
Well, I bought it a few weeks ago, but picked up the keys today.
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Alex H 
VA7XF CN89
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mastodon 4.7.3Vancouverite, sailor, forager, hiker, amateur radio operator, open source enthusiast
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@CatherineBabault@mastodon.social
This drives me crazy because if old growth forest continues to be logged, it's going to be gone forever + the jobs would still be lost. Or we would lose the jobs now, have time to retrain, and we keep the old growth forest!
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@mlmartens@mastodon.social Would have to see the underside to be sure, but looks like it.
My son sent this picture of the S/V Path in Coal Harbour, #Vancouver
I easily found it on marinetraffic.com because it's so much bigger than anything else.
My reputation at work for being prepper adjacent (amateur radio, hiking, foraging) was not helped when I demolished everyone at tactical laser tag. 9:1 kill death ratio in one round. Super fun though! Realistic M4 rifles with CO2 cartridges for the firing effects.
So, the thought occurred to me today, Wreck Beach at UBC is part of Pacific Spirit Park, which is a #ParksOnTheAir park. That means that you could activate the park while completely nude. NPOTA!
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@arnobert@chaos.social do you have a more detailed writeup on this anywhere? I'd love to set something like this up for my club. The execs said our VHF station radio could be used for this.
Me: Neat, I'm moving to a house with home delivery mail. I've been at a place with community mailboxes for about 20 years.
Mark Carney: Mwahaha.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-community-mailboxes-questions-9.7148787
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Oh no, the room I'm going to use for my office/radio shack used to be the laundry room, and has a 30a/240v plug. 😄
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I love the fireplace, it's going to need a mantle. The kitchen backsplash is an interesting choice...
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
I worked with a fellow who changed his name to include an "ö" to see what computer systems failed to handle it.
Added a new git alias to my config:
mine = "!base=$(git log --perl-regexp --author=\"^(?!$(git config user.name))\" -1 --format=%H); git diff \"$@\" \"$base\""
So often I'm working on a local branch and want to see my recent commits. This saves me looking at git log and manually copying the SHA.
Is there a better way to do it?
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@rands
I bought one for my son when his school laptop died. Does everything he needs to do and the battery life is fantastic.They're going to sell a ton in August/September.
Trespassers on the West Coast Express tracks, so the train was delayed by about 10 minutes.
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Well, a bit of an issue getting internet to the house. The Telus tech came by, discovered there isn't room for me at the distribution box(?) because all of the existing spots have customers assigned. So they're going to do something (pull fiber?) to make room for me.
An estimated two weeks until that's ready! 😠
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@Bishopjoey @niko Do they hire remotely for people in Canada? It's not clear from the postings and always so disheartening to put effort into a cover letter, etc, just to find out that you're not eligible for the job.
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@niko
Check out astronomer.io and Clickhouse. Maybe Grafana and Gitlab as well? Unfortunately I don't have anything specific, as I'm looking for work in Vancouver as well.
From VA7SL:
Next High Altitude Balloon at 7am Pacific this Wednesday, April 1st. This is not an April Fool’s joke
https://www.gofundme.com/f/amateur-radio-ballooning-in-british-columbia
Did you know that many tape measures come with the length of the body printed on it? It's more accurate to use that length rather than bending the tape to fit in a corner and guessing what the length is.
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@arnobert@chaos.social awesome, thank you. The radio at the club is a 9700 as well. I'll check out the antennas.
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@mountainwitch@kolektiva.social I really think that a support person should also get meals. Or at least have the option to pay for meals. I ate Subway for three meals in a row when my son was born 😕 and definitely would have preferred hospital food.