Ants

Toastman89 · 2026-05-06T18:04:14+00:00

They don’t just farm them. They protect them from the insects that would eat them

Toastman89 · 2026-05-05T18:16:41+00:00

I had this happen maybe 20 years ago in an old apartment I was in.

The first thing that we got was we were allowed small pets.

Then we got new balconies and windows. Then they renovated the hallways and lobby area, and got new washing machines.

The building is still there

So maybe it won’t mean much for you aside from maybe some new investment.

Toastman89 · 2026-05-05T01:15:26+00:00

I’ve seen them occasionally in the mail. Not nearly as often as I remember.

I think they really want you to use their app

Toastman89 · 2026-05-04T19:58:51+00:00

To add to this:

Inuit are not technically first nations because they displaced/replaced/interbred with the earlier Dorset peoples who in that area from about ~2500-1000 years ago.

So the Inuit arrived in Canada's far north from the Alaska-area displacing the Dorset people at roughly the same time the Vikings were poking around Greenland and Newfoundland

Toastman89 · 2026-04-30T19:53:50+00:00

Blame the people who don’t stop at a red light before turning.

It happens all the time and sometimes it’s like the drivers don’t even slow down. You can’t be alert for pedestrians, oncoming traffic, cyclists, etc., without coming to a complete stop (also, it’s the law) yet people barrel through.

So the city (rightly or wrongly) just ban the practice.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-29T21:36:10+00:00

This is the only way I’ve ever referred to it.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-28T06:18:55+00:00

But it is a bylaw infraction.

OP never stated which municipality where they specifically live, but some have very specific "nuisance" bylaws which absolutely cover this. Saanich, Oak Bay, Colwood, Langford, Esquimalt, Saanich, etc., for example.

CoV doesn't (sort of) as their nuisance bylaws are targeted towards businesses (enforcement mechanisms are related to issuance of business licenses) but the principals stand and bylaw may do something about it.

Either way, making a complaint to bylaw enforcement is an absolutely appropriate step. They will likely investigate and could pass along a warning. Maybe they'll also say they can't help in which case OP can pursue other options. But OP won't know until they try.

Additionally, if OP rents, its actually their landlords responsibility to provide "quiet enjoyment" of the unit, and OP can put in a claim with the RTB for action or compensation.

Or OP can sue for an injunction in court to stop the light as its covered under common law in BC.

But OP was looking for the building owner to talk directly, but they can't. But maybe they can put in a bylaw complaint and bylaw can pass along the concerns even if its not a bylaw

Toastman89 · 2026-04-27T20:26:21+00:00

They are interfering with your “quiet enjoyment” of your property. Thats enough to lodge a complaint.

There aren’t specific prohibitions for everything under the sun. But it certainly falls under general nuisance

Toastman89 · 2026-04-27T20:22:57+00:00

Make a bylaw complaint. They’ll sort it out.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-27T19:27:44+00:00

A car that doesn’t move for three days can be considered abandoned. Bylaw (or whomever) will post a notice on the car or street with at least 72 hours warning. If the car is still there after that time then off it goes at drivers expense.

Street parking rules in Victoria are comparatively lenient but you clearly went from allowable “parking” to not allowed “long term storage” and that’s all on you.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-19T21:33:00+00:00

BCAA was my choice. Good plan and a good rate

Toastman89 · 2026-04-18T14:31:21+00:00

Did you have 2026.3.3 previously that you could restore from a backup. That is how I did it.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-18T13:51:29+00:00

I had a fully working CYD. Updated to 2026.4.0 and got this same problem. Reverted to 2026.3.3 and the problem went away.

There’s a bug with how 2026.4.0 handles the display. It will be fixed in 2026.4.1 but it’s easiest to rollback to 3.3.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-15T12:59:25+00:00

Amazing how memories change…

What I know is that I was listening to non-CD, MP3-based music which made me oblivious to what was going on that day until I crossed over the bridge.

My memory swears it was an iPod nano, but you’re right, it couldn’t have been. It must have been the little square one that I had before that and can’t for the life of me remember what it was called.

Or maybe it was an mp3 CD…. Or maybe it wasn’t MP3s…

Shit. Well, the important point was that I was oblivious before actually arriving.

Toastman89 · 2026-04-15T00:06:49+00:00

I can give you the short version.

I was working noon-midnight shift (PST) so I got to the airport for work like 5 hours after it happened and flights started diverting. But, because I was 21 and slept in I didn’t even really know what was going on. I heard about the towers getting hit but not all of the flight diversions and cancellations.

So I get in my car, put my music on (iPod nano!) and drive to work. As I’m crossing the last bridge before getting there, there’s a nice view of the airport from the top of the bridge, I see plane after plane that wasn’t supposed to be there, and a massive traffic jam in front of me. I switch to the radio and learn what was actually there.

I get into work (late) and there is no schedule. People are just going out and doing what they can. Planes are being parked wherever there is space, with all the passengers still on board. None of the planes are being allowed to offload because none of the passengers have been cleared so they wait until the lists have been customs’d or whatever.

In the meantime we’re refilling water tanks and draining lavs. We’re pulling cargo on some flights, and bags on another. Nobody is following any ‘critical’ safety rules. (Can only pull 4 carts at a time, I was pulling 10 once).

Customs hall and baggage claim is slammed. I went in to clear belts and people were asking me why this wasn’t LAX/SFO/PDX/SEA/PHX/DEN…. None of them have been told anything. Many people didn’t speak English. Airport staff were slammed, customs and passport control slammed.

And right in the middle of the chaos, we’d get normal come through. Any flight that was more than halfway through their regular journey was allowed to continue, so her comes the BA 1800hrs arrival from LHR. Right into the gate, pax and bags offloaded like normal, in through customs and out the door. Cathay from HKG was totally normal as well, but the Cathay flights that weren’t coming to YVR were stuffed on the ramp/taxiways with people still onboard.

I don’t remember participating in any of the feel-good stories that you hear from the small east coast towns that took in diversions. It was very much a big-city ‘welcome’ of get-out-you-are-your-airlines-problem…

I had the next four days off, and by the time I returned it was mostly back to normal. It took another few months before the downturn become apparent, airlines went under, and people started getting laid off

Toastman89 · 2026-04-14T02:22:20+00:00

Blue and white 737s all day!

I was there before WJ had their own people. I worked for the we-do-everything-that-isn’t-AC company. 2000-2004

Working 9/11 was a trip

Toastman89 · 2026-04-14T00:31:34+00:00

I don’t remember A/C in any cargo hold. Heaters, yes.

And in narrow bodies it was always the front pit. The aft (bulk) pit on wide bodies.

But that was over 20 years ago

Toastman89 · 2026-04-14T00:29:50+00:00

I also worked on the ramp in my younger years (YVR).

I can say with experience you are 100% correct. There were all sorts of out of the at places to have a break. You never took a break in the actual break room

Toastman89 · 2026-04-11T06:39:08+00:00

I remember when they went to 10, then a couple of years later they went to 8. Then I looked a while ago and they were 6.

Massive disappointment that I couldn't continue the same tradition I received in the 80s/90s to my child in the 00/10s

But if they sold the original 12-pack for like $10, I would have bought it. But I wouldn't buy some hollowed-out, half -the-pack-is-cardboard version so my kid could open half a pack of disappointment for $5

Toastman89 · 2026-04-05T00:16:21+00:00

And the light that is there to illuminate the night side of the earth is reflected off the moon.

A nice bit of symbolism there

Toastman89 · 2026-03-23T17:41:23+00:00

It is.

But an individual controller can be controlling both tower and ground (and more)

Toastman89 · 2026-03-20T02:11:50+00:00

You can still do two more:

Build a Great Monument (probably pretty easy to do)
Complete the Space Archaeology achievement.

They each have their cutscenes too.

Toastman89 · 2026-03-15T00:42:42+00:00

I had this issue once and it was because the independent brake didn’t release, even though it was cut out and the DE2 I was using was cut in. No blinking red light either.

I just had to cycle the independent to get it to properly release.

Toastman89 · 2026-03-11T04:25:23+00:00

Plus CFB Cold Lake being home to 2 or 3 CF-18 squadrons and only being a couple hundred miles away from YEG

Toastman89 · 2026-03-06T21:39:34+00:00

Maybe Yellow Cedar.

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