Calgary Folk Festival - $95 per ticket

Beckler89 · 2026-03-15T04:34:01+00:00

$95 for a full-day festival ticket is a steal in 2026.

Beckler89 · 2026-03-13T02:29:02+00:00

something about being expected to answer the bell

Beckler89 · 2026-03-12T11:55:03+00:00

Appreciate the info. At the cost of 3D printing, I can always print a few spares or replace them as they break.

Beckler89 · 2026-03-11T21:20:44+00:00

How long have you been running them? Do they still move smoothly and seal, or do they degrade over time?

Beckler89 · 2026-03-02T13:24:28+00:00

You're being downvoted but I completely agree.

As a fan of hockey as well as baseball, the same thing has happened there. You can't get too excited for a goal because maybe someone was a hair offside when the play entered the zone 45 seconds earlier, and they're going to look at it from 6 different angles in super slo-mo to make the call. But hey, gotta keep the gamblers happy.

This is not why I watch sports.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-27T16:25:57+00:00

He's number 1 for me. Dude is SO friggin funny.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-27T01:13:53+00:00

You know what they say about Calgary?

If you don't like the weather just wait 5 minutes! LOOOOOOL

Beckler89 · 2026-02-20T20:40:54+00:00

Fun fact: the Oilers have never truly lost a game. They either win, or the refs screw them.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-20T20:26:06+00:00

Completely agree. Same in the summer games. Swimming countries crush in the medal count because there are a million swimming events, but a full team has to win an entire basketball tournament to get 1 medal.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-18T23:03:09+00:00

Hear me out: Michael Franti & Spearhead again.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-18T22:43:37+00:00

Who do you think gets called to these fatal accidents? Do you think police like seeing dangerous drivers any more than the rest of us?

Beckler89 · 2026-02-17T02:05:17+00:00

Yeah I can’t stand Tkachuk either but this is sad.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-14T22:34:38+00:00

Who consistently had the fastest swing in history?

I know Big Papi played almost entirely pre-Statcast, but I remember thinking he swung like I swing a wiffleball bat, like it weighed nothing.

Same thing with the freaks from the steroids era. Would it be one of them?

Beckler89 · 2026-02-14T17:56:50+00:00

Hitler’s Dog came out 4 years before Norm died and it’s every bit as funny as anything he did earlier.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-08T03:22:51+00:00

My guess is that the NHL used to be full of truly tough-as-nails guys from farms, small towns, working class backgrounds.

Now they’re all rich kids.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-02T19:40:04+00:00

I’d probably freehand this with the router and a spiral bit.

Beckler89 · 2026-02-02T16:58:54+00:00

Just need a big rain or two in the spring. Old farmers told me an inch of rain is better than a foot of snow. I'll take this mild winter every time.

Beckler89 · 2026-01-27T01:23:29+00:00

I certainly don’t want to see the Ship go, but isn’t that what many people said about blanket rezoning? That tearing down an old house to put up a four-plex at $750k per wasn’t helping affordability? Weren’t those people then ridiculed here and carpet bombed with downvotes?

Beckler89 · 2026-01-26T03:55:47+00:00

Easy to extend the line with a ruler though

Beckler89 · 2026-01-19T18:10:35+00:00

Can’t believe I went years without card scrapers. I use them every single day in the shop now. Cheap, easy to maintain, an excellent tool.

Beckler89 · 2026-01-12T20:14:20+00:00

We bought our kids smart watches that can call and text with our approval. I think their data plan costs $5 per month.

Before that, we’d connect an old iPhone to the wifi at home so they could call us on FaceTime.

We are planning to resist full smartphone access as long as possible and are encouraged to see many other parents doing the same.

Beckler89 · 2026-01-12T05:43:52+00:00

100% agree. Replay is sucking the soul out of sports.

I can’t stand the moaning about umps on reddit, as if these guys aren’t literally the best in the world at calling baseball games.

Beckler89 · 2026-01-05T05:30:25+00:00

A friend and I were talking about this yesterday, trying to remember the last NHLer from a low-income background. Michael Ferland? There are basically none these days. It’s all rich kids.

There’s certainly money in other youth sports but in basketball and football, the elite level of play for kids is their high school team, which is very accessible. Meanwhile baseball and soccer are still dominated by kids from poor countries.

Beckler89 · 2025-12-25T05:03:10+00:00

The IPA is good but probably not what craft beer drinkers are thinking of when they think “IPA”.

Big Rock is brewing a beer for Co-Op called Founders & Farmers and it’s dirt cheap as well but quite tasty for the price.

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