grivettcarnac

grivettcarnac, 6 months ago to Ottawa

I have a big job interview on Teams this afternoon and can’t for the life of me figure out how to do a “presenter view” for a presentation through screen share. It just shares the screen with my notes as it seems Google slides doesn’t have an option for this… anyone have any tips? otherwise I’ll have to open two presentations and click through both which just fucks my timing cuz of course it’s timed #ottawa #tech

grivettcarnac, 18 days ago to Ottawa

One of the things that has fallen to the way side with the past few years is the idea of brand loyalty. Yes for certain items I have a preference (I’ve had some clothing etc for 5-10+ yrs) in terms of durability and quality but beside that? Fuck no. Price. Patagonia? Nope. Canadian brands? Not really. If it’s not on sale then won’t even bother. I have mostly had the same clothes for the past five years, repairing them, maintaining, which I’ve always done but now with earnest #ottawa #cdnpoli

grivettcarnac, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to Ottawa

Well update on the government side of the job hunt… did a horrid 3-hr exam on Monday in which the person who wrote the job description did not talk to the person who wrote the exam. So that was a fucking amazing stressful waste of time (probably).

Next Monday I get another 2-day exam at 8;30AM and… a 2-hr exam at 9 AM from a difference department the same day. So will get the 2-hr exam out of the way and do the 2-day exam after 😩 #ottawa #jobs

grivettcarnac, 1 day ago to Ottawa

So we have via rail tickets booked for August and naturally I loaded the tickets in Apple Wallet… then a few days later I got an email saying the schedule was going to change and now I’ve gotten 2 new sets of tickets and I’m sick of adding and deleting tickets 🥸 I should be able to just use the same set of tickets regardless of what schedule changes but I’m annoyed at this process. If the time changes by 5 minutes and I need a whole new set of tickets? Gesus… #ottawa #viarail

grivettcarnac, 1 day ago to Ottawa

We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like #ottawa but I wouldn’t trade it for anything #cargobike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 4 hours ago to Ottawa

I do not love that a lot of the same driving mentality permeates how people move around on crowded MUPs in #ottawa If you were in the group of bros loudly ringing your bells in unison to get people walking to move right off the path so you all could blast through the middle so fast I could almost feel you on my left shoulder, well I’ll tell you to fuck off in person when you’re stopped next time too. Slow the hell down and wait a singular minute once in a while #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago to Ottawa

It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli #cdnpoli
https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago to Ottawa

Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…

I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter #onpoli

grivettcarnac, 6 days ago to ontario

I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli #onpoli #ontario

https://apple.news/AUeBgc2hJSsO0j0QsJdT1sg

grivettcarnac, 10 days ago to Ottawa

Commanda Bridge to Alexandra Bridge to the Corktown Bridge is the best parkway to QED connection on weekends. Esp with the new separated lane by the Senate building now, it’s the lowest stress route we’ve taken in a long time #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago to climate

This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the #climatechange song and dance about getting folks into EVs #canada #cdnpoli #ev

grivettcarnac, 8 days ago to Ottawa

“… how that policy fits in their low-rise community.” Hahaha you live close to Algonquin college and a 2-story building just busts the great character of your community huh? #ottawa #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/proposed-rooming-house-discord-near-algonquin-college-a-sign-of-things-to-come-1.7204363

grivettcarnac, 11 hours ago to random

I walked down Scott St yesterday for a few kms and I can’t even remember how many people I saw driving and texting. Stopped at an intersection and using their phones. Using a phone and driving is more dangerous than drinking and driving but the big, bad repercussions do fuck all at deterring people because “repercussions” are political window dressing. Like, the chances of killing someone while you text and drive are pretty fucking high, but, well, shrug from all involved #cdnpoli #onpoli

grivettcarnac, 5 days ago to Canada

Fuck no. There should be well-paid career trajectories for this type of work and it should be incorporated into a Climate Corp structure . It’s highly skilled work, dangerous and there’s huge value in expertise retention. It’s great that university students feel drawn to this but 12 hr days for up to 14 days in a row is brutal, regardless of what Alpha Male chumps whine about #cdnpoli #canada #alberta #climatechange

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766

grivettcarnac, 4 days ago to Ottawa

Wild how it took so long to do something so simple. Not that I long to visit the byward Market but Majors Hill or Rideau Falls were rarely on the list of destinations if this was the direction of travel. But this makes basic access possible especially with the bridge open and the new NCC lookout on the +50% complete?? status #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to random

I’m reading Elamin’s “Son of Elsewhere.” I’ve been pretty sparing with what bound books I spend time reading. I’ve loved Elamin for a long time and his book is wild. The journey of his writing is beautiful.

“If you look like me, here is something you understand internally, before you’re ever told: in America, when presidents need to look like they’re doing something, they take it out on Brown and Black bodies … We are the canvas of brutality.”

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to Ottawa

Showing up at Britannia Beach in #ottawa at 9 AM with cigarettes, open beer and metal detectors is a vibe for sure #maylongweekend

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago to ontario

The solution is to raise speed limits on highways, because data is stupid and definitely should NOT be used to help inform policy ever #ontario #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-number-fatalities-last-year-deadly-year-1.7204528

grivettcarnac, 7 months ago to Ottawa

Well I doubt Garner is interested in the broad solutions that would reduce the need for car ownership but at least she’s talking about.

How do you marry cultural populism around personal vehicles and affordability?

If the city of #ottawa could get 20,000 families to get rid of one car… for folks with multiple vehicles and how many others to get rid of cars altogether? Fund transit. Freeze new road construction. Fund transit #canada #cdnpoli

https://apple.news/AiYDWcmpuQVCginiCr_i_dw

grivettcarnac, 7 days ago to Ottawa

Wild to be able to watch individual storms move along the #ottawa river. Definite benefit of living high up #ontario #storm #Photography #gabesimages

grivettcarnac, 5 days ago to climate

I try to find and follow urban design, electrification, active transit experts who aren’t white dudes mostly on instagram, and I found one in Australia who I really liked until their litmus “test” for electric cars was “does a wine bottle fit in the front cup holders” 🙃🙃 Like of all the metrics to test this is the one you focus on… because you think it’s funny? People sometimes #publictransit #climatechange #EV

grivettcarnac, 4 days ago to Ottawa

A lotta spray and pray for these types of images given how packed (which is awesome) all the paths are around #ottawa and have to pay attention a LOT but it feels fun and free so gunna try a bunch of these over the summer #ottbike #gabesimages #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 1 day ago to Ottawa

Gunna give myself some props here. I attempted focaccia today, well yesterday then it was in the fridge till today. Learned a few things and will make more but it’s pretty tasty if I say so myself. First time in my life I’ve ever made bread… gunna just keep trying new things #ottawa

grivettcarnac, 10 days ago to Autism

Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism #ottawa #kids

grivettcarnac, 7 hours ago to Canada

Dropping a random prediction: Trudeau will resign as Liberal leader this summer. Do I have any specific reasons for this? No. I’m a politically connected nobody. But he can stay on and lose to Pierre, even though he wants a no-gloves campaign against him, but why be another Harper, who knew he had no chance in 2015? I think walking away would be a clutch move for him and take all the wind out of “vote for us because Trudeau is the reason for X, Y, Z” #cdnpoli #canada #elections