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shawngettler

@shawngettler@mastodon.social

Mostly Ottawa bike stuff. He/him.

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shawngettler, to random
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Once again breathing 2-stroke exhaust many floors up because we have somehow still not banned leaf blowers.

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Chatted with a pharmacist this week about boosters and they can only give them to folks over 65 and immunocompromised… unsure what kind of documentation that requires but province won’t pay for anything other… all the while movie industry folks I follow on social media show that everyone (actors don’t but everyone around them do) on movie sets still have to mask or they lose insurance coverage. So curious why

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@grivettcarnac @alex We did an OPH clinic last week. The person showed us the NACI guidance saying we could wait until fall if we weren't in the high-risk groups, but gave us the shots since we were over 6 months.

shawngettler, to random
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Back on the Gatineau Park shuttle.

shawngettler,
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Met a new friend.

shawngettler,
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@ladybugspicnic We ran into each other on the trail. They retreated into the woods and huffed and puffed for a bit, then climbed the tree when another couple of hikers came from the other direction.

ottaross, to random
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Remember, is still hanging around.

Just peeking at the recent wastewater data. It dipped last month, but has been floating a bit higher since then.

Mask up if you're going into indoor spaces that are populated with others. Try to be outside for group events where you can.

shawngettler,
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@ottaross I am hoping that was not a low point and that we aren't in for another 2023.

grivettcarnac, to ontario
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    shawngettler,
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    @grivettcarnac As you might imagine, it's actually much more dangerous. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fatal-crashes-more-than-doubled-on-b-c-roads-with-higher-speed-limits-study-says-1.4857985

    shawngettler, to random
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    Don't understand how it's such a hard political lift to raise taxes on the money people receive because they already have money.

    shawngettler, to random
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    Down to the wire, though my opponent had some assistance.

    ladybugspicnic, to random
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    So. When are we taking our studs off?

    shawngettler,
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    @ladybugspicnic I was pretty annoyed that we had the big downpour last weekend, and then the city went and salted everything again on Sunday night.

    david_megginson, to gardening

    Last year I started plants from seed indoors without a heat mat, and it typically took a couple of weeks before I saw the first sprouts.

    This year I'm using a heat mat, and the time to first sprout has been much shorter:

    • Cherry tomatoes: 4 days
    • Eggplants: 7 days
    • Basil: 3 days

    Still waiting on peppers (7 days) and dill (4 days). Other seeds will go in soon.

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    @david_megginson I try to separate them and re-pot when they are a couple inches tall, but that really just defers the cull until I run out of containers planting them outdoors.

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    @grivettcarnac I always feel like a curmudgeon in the face of "springtime!" but it's so bleak at this time of year and I feel like I especially notice how badly everything is crumbling.

    Auxonic, to random French
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    So the NDP’s position is we should all subsidize commercial trucking more, transfer the cost of maintaining the one damned toll road in the province away from those causing the most damage… great work climate deniers. https://mastodon.bot/@Trillium/112037992947753013

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    @Auxonic If commercial trucking doesn't think it's worth their while to pay the toll to use the 407, then it's clear that there is absolutely no traffic problem on the 401.

    ottaross, to random
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    . Before I get my head buried in bits, bytes and soldering I'm boiling up the small red adzuki beans I was soaking yesterday.

    shawngettler,
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    @ottaross Oh no! I am just realizing I must have missed the moon cakes Brown Loaf usually makes for lunar new year.

    shawngettler, to random
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    School boards understand that the sun is going to come back, right? Kids don't need to be with their families because of the coming of the end times.

    ladybugspicnic, to random
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    In the words of my kid: Are you serious right now, bro?

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    @ladybugspicnic If navigating a grid with a couple of one-way streets is too stressful, maybe it's time to hang up that driver's license.

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    @grivettcarnac @WTL This despite one committee delegation saying specifically that witnessing people being accosted over fare payment was upsetting and made them feel less welcome on transit.

    Auxonic, to random French
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    Oh. It’s the people too poor and disappointed in transit who are the problem not the shit mayor and the new shit mayor and council who are running transit into the ground who are demoralizing drivers. How could this nonsense be written https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/oc-transpo-budget-fare-ticket-penalty-1.7109801

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    @Auxonic Is it more demoralizing to have a few riders not tap their card or to have stressed out people constantly telling you that they are now going to be late for work/school/their doctor appointment?

    grivettcarnac, to Parenting
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    @grivettcarnac I am fortunate to not have been on the market in a long time, but I still occasionally interview. Wildest was one where they called me to come in and chat with the VP or whatever, then I spent a couple weeks chasing a followup and they just ghosted.

    ladybugspicnic, to random
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    I can't stop thinking about how the urban and inner urban wards are fighting for scraps to retro fit and renew infrastructure. Buying up properties to make pocket parks...
    While the new builds just get these things automatically.
    And here the others are suggesting that the $ worked out might be better spent elsewhere than with the community that it was meant to go toward...

    shawngettler,
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    @ladybugspicnic If the agreement was about improving neighbourhood amenities for future residents, I can't think of a good reason why the developer doesn't cancel.

    casseagull, to random
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    I am excited about this but knowing Ottawa I am going to temper my excitement because it almost certainly will not be a pilot in central Ottawa and thus will be inaccessible to me. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-pilot-reusable-containers-grocery-stores-1.7088275

    shawngettler,
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    @ladybugspicnic @casseagull @lanastewart Discover this one weird trick to never thinking about meat packaging again.

    ladybugspicnic, to random
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    I should know this, but, where is the bike counter data??
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    Looking for Scott street use....

    shawngettler,
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    @ladybugspicnic @jleiper The open data is all I can think of for the city. There are also the Eco-Counter locations on Laurier and Portage Bridge (though maybe they get collected into that spreadsheet; been a while since I looked at the data).

    Auxonic, to random French
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    Listening to a podcast and the guy they’re interviewing is conflating C and C#. Loosing my mind.

    shawngettler,
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    @Auxonic Those are an entire semitone apart.

    shawngettler, to random
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    One "you shouldn't be on a bike on a day like this" counterbalanced by one "follow in my tire tracks, it'll help", so that was nice.

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    @Auxonic @grivettcarnac @ladybugspicnic @casseagull Amusing to think I was ready to recuse myself from Bike Ottawa business relating to the NCC because my company bid on that bridge when city councillors get to decide that a $1200 cheque doesn't create a conflict of interest because they said so.

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