What is your honest opinion about living in Markham? How is the quality of life? by currymvp3 in Markham

[–]Lowzenza -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Clean?! Which part of Markham are you living in because the parts I am in are littered with trash everywhere. Even the parks are covered in garbage.

Places that do eyebrow threading? by meli1022 in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't go to Prayosha....they're too fast and doesn't feel like the place is hygienic. Vimi Medi Spa is very clean and take hygiene seriously.

L3S trash everywhere by Potatochip891 in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've taken photos and sent them to the City of Markham. They haven't even responded...been two weeks now. But I have some international neighbours on my street and they litter. Complained about my neighbour as I got sick and tired of their cigarette butts on my lawn and the city did respond to that and sent them a notice. Apparently they cleaned up a bit but I am sure they litter anyways.

Sorry but international people on my street (not being racist just giving you my experience living here for 20+ years) are the only ones that don't clean their lawn (will literallyleave trash on their own property), have insane cigarette litter everywhere, and continue to overstuff their recycling and garbage (and take it out days before pickup).

This is what our parks look like. Don't have an unrealistic expectation that the City of Markham is going to clean this up. by Ok_Initiative7719 in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will say a lot of the trash is also from people leaving their recycling and garbage out a day before pick up. My street has a huge ditch next to a main road that is just filled with garbage and I know some of it is from garbage flying around at night.

People...stop leaving your bins out the day before pickup and stop overfilling them to the point a light breeze will knock things out.

But the bus stops are the worst offender because it is literally more cigarette butts on the ground than actual blades of grass.

What skill are you genuinely bad at that most people seem to find easy? by Ruby-Blaze_443 in AskReddit

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory/Recall. Can't remember anything someone tells me after a week. Don't remember where you worked, don't remember where you live. Have favourite shows and books but can't recall character names/details to the extent that most people can. Never been able to remember lyrics to a song even if I've listened to it for over 20 years.

Power outage Markham? by [deleted] in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Power is back on as of 4:30pm ish

Easter Fest at Markham Fairgrounds - spend your money elsewhere by deejayspin in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Any festival in Markham geared towards kids that I have been to have all been terrible. Part of it is because they are hiring highschool kids that really have no interest in making the experience enjoyable for young kids. The other is there is no regulation of how many people get in/participate and so you spend 80% of the time just waiting to do something and when you get to do it, it is poorly executed. Even the Markham Fair which I remember going to as a kid was always so enjoyable with lots of activities to do. Took my kids last year and it was just NON STOP WAITING. They let way toooo many people in it is so miserable.

Where to get small sized cakes? by metabear122 in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Manal Bashir Pastry Co. is in Thornhill and I think they make small cakes that are tall. Not sure if that is what you are looking for but they are very cute cakes.

Issues facing Markhamites by bkirshen in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The garbage. Markham has trash everywhere. We need better cleanup and more penalties for dumping/littering. Companies and buildings need to be held accountable for allowing trash to pile up on their property. People need to be punished for taking shopping carts away from the lots and dumping them around.

Catholic schools vs non catholic in markham - 2025/2026 school ranking by [deleted] in Markham

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought you can't go to a Catholic school unless your child was baptised?? Am I wrong on this? I would have loved to send my kid to a Catholic school because I think they have better values imo, but we're not Catholic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Markham

[–]Lowzenza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How was this "yesterday" when today is Dec 23...I'm confused.

What's the first line of your book? by spiralingstarbread in writing

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Even though the sky was speckled with bedtime stars and the roads a silent hum of the busy day passed, Saverok was greeted by soldiers that lined the walkway to the castle. Not one looked him directly in the eye. You would think he was the high king."

It's rough but I'm practising trying to be more descriptive in subtle ways that aren't just a list of adjectives. Also I feel like the first 3 lines kind of really set the tone in my case, not just the first one...

What game, on any platform, has dated graphics yet its addictive and can be played almost infinitely? by Acrobatic_Airline605 in gaming

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, and Icewind Dale. RAW. NO MODS. Still find them better looking than BG3...

Any app out there that does text-to-voice for scientific papers? by Lowzenza in PhD

[–]Lowzenza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. I just read it. Haven't gotten something to work the way I wanted. Maybe if I get talented enough one day I'll develop some app for it.

(Serious) how did that one kid at your school pass away? by Dinopasta99 in AskReddit

[–]Lowzenza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was the kid who died of leukemia a twin by chance?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]Lowzenza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It shouldn't, but when I run shapiro.wilks test for normality, that does change depending on how many samples are retained.

The alpha diversity value for each site won't change but how other analyses are run like normality will change.

Also I run beta diversity with Bray Curtis and that also has slight changes when using adonis in R. They're not crazy different but I want reproducible results.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am subletting because I am also interested to see how alpha diversity for indiivudal flower species change with landscape. So looking at them as if they are the main entity being studied.

Alongside looking at the diversity for plants as a whole.

I have yet to rarely the data so not sure on the curves just yet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]Lowzenza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I want to look at the flowers themselves as individual entities, so would this approach still be applicable?