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jfmezei

@jfmezei@mstdn.ca

Network/IT guy, started work on VAX computers.
Author of Petition to Governor in Council to overturn UBB decisions at CRTC.
was/is jfmezei on Twitter.
From greater Montréal, Québec, Canada, Earth area

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jfmezei, to random
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Spooks, S06E01 and 02 (and I think 3). This is from 2006-2007.
It's about someone introducing a biological weapons/virus into London.
In a post covid era, it is facinating to compare how script writers handled this in that era versus what actually happened for covid. Many similarities.

jfmezei,
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@RichardNairn Every few years I watch it again. This is my first time since COVID, so those episodes about spead deadly infection whicb was only finction back then is more interestiung now that we've been through one such pandemic.
And yes, the series is top notch in terms of quality.

jfmezei, to random
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@chad Dame Edna interviews one of your own town's citizens: KD Lang !

https://youtu.be/nW7HLqOgM20

jfmezei, to random
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Drive through downtown Lahaina (Maui, Hawaii) 8 months after the fire devastated the town.
TLDR: stll at the cleanup stage, rebuild not started.

13 minutes: https://youtu.be/-du0WnJdepg

jfmezei, to random
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@Milnoc for your next trip to Japan:
https://youtu.be/yPL4sXziZ2c

jfmezei, to random
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Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has a list of Eclipse watching events in each province.

Reminder, avoid Niagara Falls as they have declared a state of emergency over this event.

https://rasc.ca/eclipse2024

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@heliomass I won't say "I told you so...."

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The Lock Picking Lawyer's annual "naughty" April 1st video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg

jfmezei,
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@Milnoc Is your wang up for the job? does your Johnson have a bend in it ?

jfmezei, to random
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Proof the moon is made of cheese.

jfmezei, to random
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No longer Cream Cheese but rather Cream Cheese product. :-(

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Yeah ! Yippie ! Montréal finally gets its grey alert for wednesday's snow. 10 to 20-cm. At present, the grey alerts cover only Québec. So Hull gets 10-20cm of snow, but Ottawa gets nothing 😉

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@Milnoc The "Colorado low" is just boilerplate used by their computer and has no bearing on where the storm is actually coming from.

jfmezei, to random
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Amtrak serves Norfolk Virginia.
Yet, Carnival chose to hire a fleet of some 60 buses to take the thousands of cruise ship passengers from its ship that docked at Norfolk to Baltimore where it was originally destined.

If I were Amtrak Joe Biden, I would order an investigation on why Amtrak was not the preffered transporter for that many people and make sure that is fixed.

jfmezei,
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After spending considerable time on how they are managing car traffic without the bridge, official mentions that they also have public transit in the area !!! That shoudl have been primary message, especially to students returning to school tomorrow.

heliomass, to Montreal
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‘The Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) has not yet confirmed an exact launch date but said the project "is progressing according to plan" and that it will announce the launch "at the right moment."’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-metro-opus-card-recharging-telephone-1.7146276

I’m still eagerly awaiting this, but I continue to have a genuine problem with the ARTM’s condescending paternalistic attitude. As if we, the plebs, are unable to comprehend the tides and eddies which dictate when the right moment may come.

jfmezei,
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@heliomass Once the need to move away from Calypso system was realized, my guess is that there was reluctance in spending more to patch it up. But political pressure have now forced them to develop that last minute card loading app while they evaluate the true cash-based replacement system and negotiate with REM/EXO/STM on needing exit fare gates at key stations outside of zone A.

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The city centre motorway of Utrecht (NL) feels like a distant memory. It was in use from 1973 to 2009.
I compared Google Earth images from 2009 and 2024.
So much asphalt gone!

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jfmezei,
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@BicycleDutch translation: after a big rain storm a canyon style highway was flooded 🙃

jfmezei, to random
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What rapid transit was envisaged to be in the 21th century.

jfmezei,
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The LincolnFutura was a car prototype that didn't go into production. Some of the prototypes were sent to Gotham City and used by the caped crusaders. It had a glass roof that came down with motors to enclose the 2 occupants. (the glass roof didn't make it to the documentary on Batman and Robin but was on the Lincoln prototypes)

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jfmezei, to random
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Westjet introduces Memor Ease to give you vacations.
01:13 https://youtu.be/KWPl0x4Anpc

(reminiscent of Recall but with more more compact equipment).

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@jcolp Hope April Fools was productive for you! Did anyone play a prank to pretend New Brunswick actually existed? 🙂

jfmezei, to random
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@Milnoc still no sign of the snowmageddon you predicted for wednesday !!! No special messages. Nothing, nada.

jfmezei, to random
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Lynx Air news:
Lynx Air had ordered 46 Boeing 737s back in 2015, renegotiated price down during 737 grounding/COVID to very attractive prices. 9 were delivered.

When Lynx Air went kaput at end of February, the contract for remaining 37 was seen a one of its most valuable asset to be sold to another airline who could then get those 737s at price much lower than current price.

This past week, monitor announced that this plan fell through (cont).
http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/lynxair/motions.htm Bench Brief March 24.

jfmezei,
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(cont).
Boeig imposed strict confidentiality and vetting rules and data availability rules that would make it impossible for Lynx to seek out potential airlines wanting to buy out the contract.

The end result is somewhate unepected:
Boeing has agreed to buy out its own contract with Lynx. Effectively sending cash to Lynx to cancel the order.

I assume that the cost to Boeing is less than the extra money it will get selling those aircraft are current prices.

jfmezei,
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(cont) Also, to Boeing, this new process will forever hide how low Being was willing to go to sell its 737s, something Boeing doesn't want airlines currently negotiatig for new 737s to find out.

From CCAA process it derogates from usal practice of having an open "auction" for assets and selling them to highest bidder in order to maximize return to creditors. So the Monitor now has to justify going this route instead as the best way forward.

jfmezei, to random
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If I were head of STM, I would collect station announcements from metro systems around the world and on morning of April 1, substitute each Montreal station announcement with that of a station in another city. Big question is where to put Tsim Sha Tsui? New York’s 42nd announcements with long list of connecting lines would be for Berri.

jfmezei,
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@EdwinG Skipping a stop is not as easy. requires switching to manual driving and you then hit a "max speed=0" if you get too close to train ahead of you. (Montréal is GoA2, so press a button and train train goes to next station).

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