PSA for @BlueJays fans. The game on Friday vs. the Angels is only on Apple TV+. On the bright side, it’s a late game and you can watch for free. Still, these MLB deals stink for the average fan.
PSA for @BlueJays fans. The game on Friday vs. the Angels is only on Apple TV+. On the bright side, it’s a late game and you can watch for free. Still, these MLB deals stink for the average fan.
Tried (and succeeded) in pulling the old Moen cartridge out. Pretty clear to me now that the new one is in that the plumber that installed this one likely melted the inside seals when he installed it. Never quite felt right to operate. Nice win to start the day.
Tried (and failed) to pull a Moen cartridge out of the shower faucet this evening. I’ve done these a few times before without trouble, but this one just won’t give up. Going to Home Depot first thing tomorrow to get a special puller tool. Last resort will be a plumber, I guess.
Will it ever end? I’m honestly starting to wonder why I would ever want to cross the border and visit that country ever again.
So many transport nerds. Oh to be a part of a day like this. Everyone truly chuffed to ride the new trains. www.youtube.com/watch
New transit lines opening is always a great day for a city and Toronto has quite a few substantial projects on the go (pardon the pun). Besides the Crosstown, there’s the Finch West LRT, Hurontario LRT, big GO expansion, extension of Line 2 eastwards, and the Ontario Line.
If I lived in London, today I’d be out riding the new CrossElizPurpleTrain or whatever Geoff Marshall has decided the line that isn’t a Tube line should be called. We’ll get our own #purpletrain moment in Toronto sometime in early 2023 when the Crosstown starts up along Eglinton.
It’s 7:15 P.M. and the random fireworks are already starting. Hopefully most people run out of them by 10:30 P.M. or so.
Nothing like trying to re-train YouTube on what you are interested in and more importantly what you aren’t interested in. So much crap, news, fake news, entertainment “news” and just straight up click-bait garbage content.
I drove through Uxbridge, Ontario today on the way home from some train watching. Damage from the storm yesterday is severe including damage to the York-Durham Heritage Railway, homes and businesses and the Trinity United Church. www.youtube.com/watch
Nice day today, other than that line of heavy rain and strong winds that rolled through this afternoon. Tomorrow I hope to be trackside to photograph some trains for the first time in ages. I’ll have the drone up if the weather cooperates.
Ballgame with the guys did not disappoint. Jays won 2-1. Romano came in for the save so we got the whole light show thing in the 9th. It was great to hang out again after a couple of years.
Work for a bit, then we’re off to the Blue Jays baseball game today. Looking forward to some in-person time with some of my co-workers. It’s been a long time.
Sometimes it’s the little things. We’re relocating our outside hose tap tomorrow from an inconvenient location on one side of our house to a far more convenient location on the other side. This is Toronto, so I’m thinking it’ll lead to a $30k increase in property value.
I had the desk, got the chair in the spring of 2020. Frosted the window and added the 27" 4K monitor in the summer of 2020. The personal MacBook came for Christmas in 2020.
Then a Synology came along last summer and I scrounged up the little Samsung monitor (with an Amazon FireTV stick) for YouTube slow tv background visuals and noise.
The storage units to the right are brand new this week and really helped declutter the space visually. Oh, and the LED light for some fake sunshine was an early 2020 purchase as well.
If you asked me in March, 2020, how long I thought it would be until we returned to the office at least part-time, I would have said by the fall. Here we are 27 months later and the answer to that question is now “never”.
I need to paint still but after more than two years working remote, I’m finally making progress in my home office environment.
I did a big desk cleanup last week, and yesterday I put together a pair of storage units from IKEA to further remove clutter and make my office a bit more calming. For the first time in its life, my printer isn’t sitting on a box on the floor.
Speaking as a someone with 15 years in the business of domains and DNS, don’t use DNSSEC unless you have a really good reason why you need to use it AND also understand how it works (and how you can really break things badly). news.ycombinator.com/item
Sure sign that summer is not far away in Toronto: the roof is open for tonight’s Blue Jays game vs. the Mariners. First game under open skies this season.
Successful personal day. Got some expired IDs and such sorted for myself and the kid. Dealt with some banking tasks (old accounts cleaned up, etc.). Assembled some IKEA storage and tidied the clutter in my home office. Much better.
Instagram has a new app icon. I’ll reserve judgment until the rest of the internet tells me whether I should love it or hate it.
Contrast with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) here in my city which, for whatever reason, seems intent on linking accessibility with handicap or disability. That goes all the way down to using the wheelchair icon on the link to their Accessibility page. Removing barriers to transit usage is more than accommodating disabled riders. Step-free describes the removal of physical barriers beautifully and I wish the TTC used that term here.
Accessibility should be inclusive of all barriers, both physical and non-physical. That could include things like financial barriers, language, wayfinding, safety and even where transit is provided in the city to ensure that all residents have equitable access to move around their city.
Also kudos to Transport for London (TfL) for the work being done to provide step-free access on more and more of the network. tfl.gov.uk/travel-in…
The British term “step-free” when describing fully-accessible stations on the transit network is so nice. It’s a brilliant description of exactly what the stations are without ascribing a specific use case or type of user. From the street to the train, there are no steps.
Finding myself rooting for the Penguins tonight, mostly because of Crosby. But I have the Rangers in my bracket so…
(what a goal that was!)