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chrisbegley

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Fan of cities and wild places. I like bikes, beer, rugby.

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Auxonic, to Ottawa French
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I love* how Naqvi and friends (of developers) churned out a 50 page pdf full of nonsense renders and barely meaningful maps saying some of the right things but really just manufacturing consent to sell federal assets to developers for a song. The city of is run by the worst people alive.

*hate

chrisbegley,
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@Auxonic you mean put the library on several major bus routes, near to the densest neighbourhood in the city, and within easy lunchtime walks of 10s of thousands of employees?

ottaross, to random
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A couple of shopping trips these last two days, during quiet store times, and masked.

With COVID in the house, I'm preparing in case I get it too, and there'd be nobody to nurse me along. Pantry was pretty well stocked already. A couple of days of incoming nasty weather too, so I'm ready for various Armageddon scenarios.

chrisbegley,
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@jaybaltz @ottaross I had almost asymptomatic COVID recently. Only tested as I was visiting elderly people and had felt a bit lethargic (which I otherwise attributed to the grey, rainy, short days)

hallenbeck, to coys
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@spurs // Could buy a 100m player every year on gate receipts alone.

chrisbegley,
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@hallenbeck @spurs and then add in NFL, rugby, concerts (6 nights of Beyonce this year), boxing etc...

hallenbeck, to coys
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@spurs // Ali Gold on Emerson Royal

“Tottenham defender Emerson Royal believes that life as a centre-back could be something he takes to as his career progresses.”

I really like Royal. He's not the best in any area but he works so hard, is still young, improving, and such a good energy to have around the club. For me he was second best player against Burnley after Porro.

https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/players/tottenhams-emerson-royal-makes-prediction-28402859

chrisbegley,
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@Jfrites @hallenbeck @brndnpink @IanHill @spurs
I agree that we need players who accept the backup role. I would prefer to have 4 starting CBs but that is not realistic - if a player should be a starter on a CL level club, Spurs can't afford to pay them to be 4th choice. So having Davies and Royal who accept their role gives us a huge advantage

ottaross, to random
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I love Mastodon but there are sometimes little broken things that persist. I look at my SO's view of my toots and I occasionally see people who've replied to me, but the replies are not visible to me.

I check their account and instance and find them neither blocked nor muted. I guess the federation just doesn't quite click sometimes.

chrisbegley,
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@ottaross testing one-two-three.. I usually only see them in my notifications, not my feed. It makes Mastodon much less useful to me

chrisbegley,
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@stephanie @ottaross to me, this is the core problem with Mastodon. I don't want to have to know about how fédération or anything works. I just want it to work. If I have to struggle to figure out why, then I will just lose interest, and most people are like that I suspect. Right now, it is awkward having conversations, which is kind of the point?

casseagull, to random
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Tonight is the first game for the Ottawa PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) against Montreal at Lansdowne - and happily, tickets seem to be sold out. Nice.

chrisbegley,
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@casseagull ??? They all seem to be being shown?
https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/where-you-can-watch-all-72-broadcasting-pwhl-games-this-season

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    chrisbegley,
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    @grivettcarnac I would bet on a shuttle to Leitrim or South Keys to connect to Trillium line

    lanastewart, to random
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    My colleagues face a lot of uphills to get software to do their jobs… but ok robot garbage cans. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

    chrisbegley,
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    @lanastewart glad we have a machine telling me that a Dasani bottle goes in plastic.

    chrisbegley, to random
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    @casseagull Book review 2023! I read lots, but lots of it was Lee Child and a series called Ava Lee. Just escapism (but fun!!!).
    Best book I read was Factory Girls, set in Northern Ireland 1994. Great read. Second was Nobody's Fool, which I liked because it was about working class men in a serious way.
    Honourable mentions:
    August Into Winter
    The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
    Everyone in my family has killed somebody
    The Wall (Austrian)
    The Ninja Daughter
    The Private Apartments

    johnefrancis, to random
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    On Christmas Eve, becomes

    delivers presents to the naughty kids, because every kid deserves the dignity of getting a present even if they have the emotional intelligence and judgement of a child.

    also delivers his presents on a sleigh that flies through the ground, since it's a shorter distance and JohnMastoclaus doesn't compromise on efficiency or anything else.

    chrisbegley,
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    @johnefrancis wouldn't friction make it less efficient? And doesn't it go through water as well, or does it have to go under the seabed?

    ottaross, to baking
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    Making some #cookies to finish the afternoon, and get me away from my desk and soldering iron.

    Thankful that one of my big sisters helped me find a recipe for some childhood cookies I always liked at Christmas. Also it was her birthday yesterday. HBD to D!

    chrisbegley,
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    @ottaross bird's-nest where I come from

    Auxonic, to Ottawa French
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    Well done . You’ve killed another not-car service.

    chrisbegley,
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    @Auxonic Superpedestrian in Boston, another e-scooter company, just closed

    chrisbegley,
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    @Auxonic they raised over $100 million last year, so not sure how they have run out of money (they do LINK scooters)

    Alon, to random
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    Are there interesting/memable cases of numbers of states between a river and a sea, anywhere in the world? Please no examples from the southwest Levant.

    chrisbegley,
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    @Alon if Venezuela has its way, Guyana (Essequibo and Caribbean).
    Ontario and Quebec (St. Lawrence / Hudson Bay), Washington State (Columbia/Pacific)

    chrisbegley,
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    @Alon prior to the 1846 Oregon Treaty, Great Britain argued that the territory from the [Columbia] River to the [Pacific Ocean] belonged to them.

    I am not sure a meme of Sir Richard Pakenham, British Ambassador to the US and negotiator of the Oregon Treaty, would be effective though

    jleiper, to random
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    4/5: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66086834

    chrisbegley,
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    @casseagull getting close to our best books recap

    bridget, to random
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    chrisbegley,
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    @bridget as explained here, you cannot use CPI to calculate it. Cratchit earned according to a different calculation, about the equivalent of $USD 1.60/hr
    https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256
    @akrennmair

    hallenbeck, to coys
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    [The Athletic] Tottenham and City Football Group: Are Spurs trying to learn from Manchester City?

    https://theathletic.com/5098615/2023/11/30/tottenham-and-city-football-group-how-and-what-spurs-are-aiming-to-learn/

    Alt: https://archive.today/3ySpd

    Combine with this excellent interview with Noel Gallagher on TalkSPORT recently where he talks in depth about City (the bit starting at 1:35 in particular).

    https://youtu.be/DTkHctVtvsg?t=88

    There are other videos in this interview. I'll drop those links below 👇

    @coys @spurs

    chrisbegley,
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    @hallenbeck @coys @spurs I think we were starting under Porch, but then the stadium took all the energy. Although I think the foundation is much more solid with the new stadium, so ...

    ottaross, to random
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    A neat corner of the internet I hadn't come across before – the space. Sounds like teams work to solve a bunch of puzzles in a short time using online/offline resources.

    One emerged three years ago at Stanford called . Their third puzzle gets started in ten days.

    Seems too intensive for my tastes – a pub quiz is about as much as I ever hazard – but I like that this exists!

    See the link if you're interested. Reading the about & faq is fun too.

    https://www.huntinality.com

    chrisbegley,
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    @ottaross inimagine this is the inspiration for them all (since 1981)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt

    jon, to random
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    Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhh

    Apparently CDU and SPD want to invest €80m in a maglev test in Berlin

    WHAT
    THE
    HELL
    FOR?

    We know how Maglev works. We also know the system’s limitations. There’s no application of this in Berlin that makes sense.

    Build cycle lanes or tram lines.

    https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/berlin-magnetschwebebahn-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

    chrisbegley,
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    @jon the only good idea there is driverless technology (which Vancouver has had since 1986, enabling peak headway of 2 minutes, escalating to late night of 4-5 minutes)

    chrisbegley,
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    @jon @vfrmedia I think Munich is the best on transit, but is only now adding to their bike network built out in the 90s (which was then best in class, but is now very meh )

    Alon, to random
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    Should I blog sometime about how public transport is fairly unique as a form of social and government interaction that is still low-key? The contrast is that other forms of care provided by the state, like health and education, are heavy-touch (mediated by doctors and nurses, teachers, and social workers), and get incredibly hostile to immigrants with demands to acculturate. I got talked down to when I got vaccinated; but when I get on the trains, I don't. @mckra1g

    https://mastodon.social/deck/@mckra1g/111439345653204114

    chrisbegley,
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    @Alon @mckra1g not including buses? I know in Quebec, new laws are suggesting that all government interactions with citizens must be in French, including bus drivers

    chrisbegley,
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    @Alon @mckra1g unless they only put French (or German, or English) in te machine, as a deliberate choice

    ottaross, to television
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    After 15+yrs with an #AppleTV and seeing the sleep screens focused on dramatic views of natural beauty around the world, I began noticing in the last few years a conspicuous lack of anything in #Canada.

    I suppose we don't have much in the way of dramatic natural landscapes nor a substantial landmass relative to other countries, so I can see how it might not come up. Oh look, Iceland has dramatic rivers and Greenland has snowy mountains. Nice.

    chrisbegley,
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    @johnefrancis @ottaross @dan613 ahem

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