Sent the following followup email to the Toronto Transit Commission after hearing nothing for nearly two weeks on a report that I filed early this year. They have you fill out a web form, and list explicit instructions to send an email to followup@ttc.ca if you don’t hear back. I wonder how frequently anyone hears [...]
Read more →Last month, there were no “Skeptics In The Pub” style events being held in Toronto. I’m still new to town, and was surprised by this apparent oversight in a city with a reputation for having a strong skeptical community, let alone a city with a couple formal skeptics groups. Last week, I was rather happy [...]
Read more →Found over at the Torontist. I’m still amazed how well most of the public garbage cans and how well downtown as a whole seemed to just keep calm and carry on during the city worker strike.
Read more →Click on the thumbnail if you want to see out ghost balcony a bit more clearly… This is just a first quick panorama generated with Calico 1.5 (3 dotted number upgrades since I used it last, and 4 since I registered it) and about a dozen shots. I’m going to play a bit with some [...]
Read more →For the most part, Toronto’s people are outwardly polite. People bump into you on an overcrowded train, and they look you in the eye and say “Sorry” or some other expression of compassion for you having nearly spilled a sip of coffee. There are no signs warning transit users on streetcars or subway (I haven’t [...]
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Read more →It’s small, but it’s right downtown with an easy to remember address. It’s super cheap too, at $21 per month, though it’s going to be a bitch moving in, as it’s less than one cubic foot in size. We have a box setup at a downtown UPS Store / Mailboxes Etc. shop so that we [...]
Read more →I was looking at lastminutetravel.com and priceline.com and all the other cut-rate sites to find the cheapest place possible so that we could have a room for the weekend while we drive around looking for an apartment. Hopefully we’ll find a place with immediate availability so that we can sleep THERE on the night of [...]
Read more →Well, looks like National car rentals will do one-way rentals from Halifax to Toronto. Trouble is, there’s nothing really moving-friendly in there, possibly by design. No Minivans or full sized SUVs. $200 for a week long car rental though is plenty to get the mammals to Toronto, without so many possessions. Maybe we’ll have to [...]
Read more →Some ebay and some kijiji posts I have up for things what need sellin’ Apple iPod 5th Gen. Black 80 GB Excellent Condition Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters series 1st print – VG PrimeFilm PF3600 PRO Film Scanner Box of “Copper Age” comics Yamaha RX-V496 Dolby / DSP / DTS AV Receiver + main speakers [...]
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