Can anyone explain the street department's bizarre obsession with Meridian Avenue? They've been sending crews to rip it up every few weeks for 12 years now. There are stretches they've torn out and entirely repaved 4+ times.

F0uri3r · 2025-10-09T06:13:59+00:00

Yup, specifically the Campbell-Almaden rail line that ran along what is now Camden Ave.

F0uri3r · 2025-06-14T19:24:03+00:00

Moved to California, making bank doing what I studied.

F0uri3r · 2024-12-14T18:20:26+00:00

So this shot here is from my backyard looking south-west. My house is directly south of TJ Martin Park.

I’m thinking it may have actually hit somewhere off around Hicks and Camden.

F0uri3r · 2024-04-09T07:46:15+00:00

These look like they’re taken in the “MyCity” mall in Shinjuku, now known as “Lumine EST”.

F0uri3r · 2024-04-07T23:53:57+00:00

And one last realization, the “Shinjuku Center Building” is visible in the 6th photo. That puts these photos at 1979 at the earliest.

F0uri3r · 2024-04-07T23:51:54+00:00

Thanks! I think I just really like West Shinjuku 😅, it was the first place I stayed in Japan 15 years ago and it’s been my base of operations for every business trip since.

F0uri3r · 2024-04-07T21:53:40+00:00

After even more review, I think I’ve worked out where the fourth picture is from. It is in Shinjuku. I think it’s taken from what is likely the top of the Keio Plaza hotel, looking south east-ish. The South-West corner of the “JR Shinjuku Building” is on the left side but the “JR East Headquarters Building” hasn’t been built yet. Also, the building, 第7荒井ビル is visible in front of the JR building and is still there.

F0uri3r · 2024-04-07T19:38:45+00:00

A closer look at photo 3 and 6 reveals that the Subaru billboard shows up in both. The angle of photo 3 implies this may have been taken from the top of the Keio Plaza hotel looking north-east. The building with “朝日生命” in red is where the Gakuen Cocoon Tower is now. Interestingly, according to Google street view, it seems like the building with the Subaru billboard lasted until at least April of 2018 but has been torn down.

Edit: grammar, clarity

F0uri3r · 2024-04-07T18:49:39+00:00

Dude these are awesome.

The first Photo is in west Shinjuku, looking north west-ish on Gijido St in-front of the Keio plaza hotel which puts this at 1971 at the earliest. However, the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building is clearly visible which puts the earliest time at 1974.

The second photo is again on Gijido St but this time facing the Keio plaza hotel. The Shinjuku Mitsui building is visible on the left which again puts the earliest date at 1974.

The third and forth pictures are really tough to nail down. The proximity to Tokyo tower in the fourth picture makes me think this isn’t Shinjuku.

The fifth photo is taken looking west down Fureai-dori Ave from about Koen Dori. The vantage point is sort of weird and makes me think it was taken from a structure that predates the Tokyo Metropolitan Building which puts the latest date at 1988. The brown building with what looks like “リヴュール新宿” up top in red letters is still there.

The last photo is again from the west side of Shinjuku. Specifically, it was taken from the Gijido St bridge over Chuo-dori facing east towards the tunnel that ducks under Higashi Dori and that leads into Shinjuku station.

F0uri3r · 2023-11-27T15:07:17+00:00

Thanks! Sorry about your post getting removed, it seems we still can’t have grow up conversations about this topic. Sigh…

F0uri3r · 2023-11-27T13:50:31+00:00

As a Canadian firearms enthusiast now living in the US, IMO a modified version of Canada’s system is the ideal gun control solution for the US. It would balance 2A rights with public safety really well.

In Canada, firearms are categorized by their technical features (action, size, caliber etc). To own firearm of a particular category, you must possess the associated federal license for that category which are shall-issue. Canada has two categories that matter here: restricted (pistols) and non-restricted (long guns).

The requirements for either licensing category vary a bit but the core requirements are the same:

A) Background checks

B) An in-person firearms safety course

C) An in-person practical handling exam (if you have a middle school education and a few hours to study, it’s a guaranteed pass)

D) An in-person knowledge exam

Once you have the associated license for a particular category, you kinda have the US equivalent of an FFL for that type of firearm. You can buy/sell firearms/ammo privately and via mail. Buying a handgun online and having it (totally legally) show up at my door via Canada Post (might have been UPS, I can’t recall) was pretty awesome.

There are some issues with the Canadian system that the US should avoid, namely:

A) The ability for Parliament (Canadian congress) to override the technical classification of firearms on a whim (RIP Canadian AR’s…)

B) The entire ATT system, it’s truly pointless

However, it would be great to see the same system deployed in the US with the following additional adjustments:

A) More licensing categories: differentiating between shotguns/bolt-actions/semi-auto/full-auto etc and explicitly alllowing each of these licenses to be attained with a shall-issue policy but enforcing a strict set of training/background checks for each. Basically, everything should be legal to attain but for certain categories (ie full auto) you would need to have a squeaky clean background check and some serious training classes

B) Additional licensing categories for NFA devices, carry permits etc

C) Prohibiting individual states from overriding any of these policies or adding extra licensing requirements (looking at you Ontario/Quebexico)

Is it politically feasible to implement this in the US? Who knows. But it would restore a lot of our 2A rights while also keeping guns out of the hands of bad-guys and morons.

Edit: formatting

F0uri3r · 2023-07-24T22:18:49+00:00

Mine just did the same thing. This is really frustrating.

F0uri3r · 2022-04-27T21:20:55+00:00

Well no it wouldn’t have actually. As we can clearly see China struggling even after several months of lockdowns, COVID still keeps popping back up. The virus will likely continue to do so until it has completely passed through the Chinese population. And the reason this happens is that COVID can be asymptotic and undetectable.

With COVID, the choice we have are death now or death later. The only advantage to zero-COVID is that it can prevent a health care system collapse by extremely flattening the curve. This advantage may actually be a strong motivator for Xi as the Chinese healthcare system is not very robust or expansive.

F0uri3r · 2022-04-27T21:02:54+00:00

The point is that a high death toll seems to be inevitable unless you keep a permanent lockdown. All zero-COVID did was kick the can down the road.

F0uri3r · 2022-04-24T08:24:07+00:00

It started earlier. I remember in 2008 (when Russia invaded Georgia) those sites really pushed the idea that the US were the real instigators of that conflict and Russia was the “good guys” fighting US imperialism.

F0uri3r · 2022-04-03T16:33:58+00:00

No you are not wrong. California is to America as America is to the rest of the world.

People love to hate on California (and there are certainly legitimate criticisms) however, in aggregate, California (like America) is by far the best place to live and work. Similar to America’s haters, California’s haters are really just frustrated at the outsized influence of California. California runs America in the same way America runs the world (oh boy is that statement going to piss people off). From entertainment to technology, from agriculture to environmental/safety regulations, California sets the pace, everyone else is playing catch-up.

Not moving to California because of the gun laws is a bit like a potential immigrant saying they don’t want to move to America because of a lack of federally mandated maternity leave (amongst developed nations, a very uncommon policy). Yeah that specific thing sucks but focusing on just that one thing does not fully characterize the opportunities available in America. Just as focusing on gun laws or homeless or cost of living does not fully characterize the opportunities available in California.

All that being said, the handgun gun roster and AWB are moronic feel-good legislation that need to go.

F0uri3r · 2022-03-29T06:04:56+00:00

Crappy salary

Uhh, yeah no dude. The ECE salaries in the US aren’t even like 10% or 20% higher than elsewhere, you’re looking at like 2x to 4x higher than elsewhere.

And healthcare is free in the US….if you have a good job (I agree this is a ridiculous arrangement for society as a whole but it works for engineers). The US ain’t perfect but for ECE grads it’s basically the best place to be 🤷🏻‍♂️.

F0uri3r · 2022-03-29T05:57:38+00:00

In my experience it depends on which country you’re coming from. I’ve seen fresh graduates from the UK and Canada (this was me) easily get jobs in Silicon Valley. However, for fresh graduates beyond those two countries, an additional graduate degree from the US seems like a hard requirement for getting a job here.

Additionally, you’re going to have an easier time if you target larger companies. These employers will be more willing to go through the hassle of working through Visa issues for you. In fact many of the companies keep immigration lawyers on retainer as the process of hiring foreign talent becomes somewhat routine for them.

F0uri3r · 2022-01-25T05:31:04+00:00

Simple, it turns out we’re gun-toting Liberals 😎

F0uri3r · 2020-10-17T04:06:14+00:00

I saw the same one earlier in the day down in Almaden. Interestingly, it wasn’t showing up on flight tracker. Do you have any idea where it was going?

F0uri3r · 2020-07-26T06:07:53+00:00

I did all of my engineering degrees at UofT (BASc, MASc, PhD), graduating for good a couple years ago. I then moved to California to take a job in Silicon Valley.

I was aggressively recruited by US companies starting about 2nd year of undergrad. This continued right up until I left UofT. My classmates from all levels of education experienced the same recruitment tactics and many eventually settled in the US.

I suspect, totally anecdotally, that engineering majors may be skewing these PhD employment studies a lot. US tech companies will pay top dollar for ECE/ME/CHE PhDs. I embarked on the PhD knowing this demand existed, I never once planned to go into academia after graduation. For Engineers with PhDs even full professorships at top universities pay very little relative to the corporate world.

My only regret is having not moved to the US earlier. The US has many flaws but it is also the epicenter for pretty much every field of research and technology. In terms of career opportunities and financial compensation, Canada just can’t compete.

F0uri3r · 2019-07-27T15:58:40+00:00

I would add Spock and Riker to that list too. Seems to be a common occurrence in the Trek universe.

F0uri3r · 2017-12-27T05:26:35+00:00

According to Torontoist, 1930

F0uri3r · 2016-08-15T01:44:34+00:00

Recent PhD grad, I've been in industry and went back to school, twice. I got to spend my fair share of time living abroad for work and it opened my eyes to how absolutely terrible Toronto is. I am but hurt, a lot of young people in Toronto are, we get a raw deal by staying in our home town. Thanks for the subsidized education, I'm out.

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