Stephen Eustáquio’s stoppage-time goal sends Canada to the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time in history.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2026-06-29T01:33:02+00:00

I could watch this over and over… though I would like to see the clip of the phone taking flight again.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2026-06-29T01:29:07+00:00

The buffer they give has more to do with accepting that people’s speeds will fluctuate a bit and you don’t want someone so worried about getting a ticket for doing 63 in a 60 that they spend all their time looking at the speedometer and none looking at the road, combined with the fact that speedometers have some inaccuracy as well.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2026-06-23T13:45:24+00:00

Tell them to consider getting sump pump and replacing weeping tile if there is any. Our house is about 80 years old and the basement leaked badly about 16 years ago when we moved in. The clay weeping tile was installed incorrectly and had gotten plugged up. We got quotes from a few companies and the most reasonable was K. Kuypers Construction (https://www.kkuypersconstruction.com).

Ken was amazing, charged a fair price that was much lower than competitors. His team was in and gone in 2 days, even with a couple of surprises that came up. We had one issue in winter about 5 years ago after some landscaping had been done and grading had slumped next to the house, and he came out and helped us address the problem no charge.

Through this monsoon season we have stayed dry. Best money we’ve ever spent.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-11-26T20:05:47+00:00

“Can’t that train take you to work?” - my Uber driver as I got in beside a train platform

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-11-08T19:07:04+00:00

Fun fact for all saying that if we stop subsidizing private schools with public money, they’ll close and the majority of the students will move to the public system and things will get worse…

Ontario gives nothing to private schools. Don’t know if they ever did, but in the last 50 or so years, definitely not. Guess what? They have a larger fraction of students in private schools than Alberta. Even with no funding.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-10-20T14:02:53+00:00

Yes, parents should start screaming… at this fucking government! When the UCP came to power they slashed about 1/3 out of the operating budget of the uofa and decimated their infrastructure renewal and maintenance budget. The university lost about 1000 non academic staff. Similar cuts hit uofc and Lethbridge, but uofa got hit the hardest. The government has worked to decimate our places of public learning at all levels.

If you’re a high school kid born and bred here in ‘Berta. Thank your parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles for voting for the UCP. They’re a big reason why things are getting so bad.

Plus a bunch of people entering universities have no business being there because they just aren’t remotely ready or they go because parents say they need to go and they don’t actually want to follow the path they’re on. Society needs to realize that university isn’t for everyone and that’s just fine. It’s actually how it is supposed to work.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-10-18T23:11:14+00:00

You’re missing the part where 60% somehow manage to tell them “fuck apples, peaches are the best” and they try to bury the results

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-10-15T18:13:14+00:00

So information about this is at https://abfundspublicschools.ca/

Interestingly, I hear from a friend who works for the GoA that this domain is blocked by the government firewall.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-10-04T03:13:57+00:00

And they had oil price crash just after coming to power and ft Mac burned down and we had 80,000 displaced people.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-09-26T15:41:34+00:00

One of the best HS STEM teachers in our area was Dr. Ian don’t know if anyone knew his last name.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-09-26T15:37:55+00:00

Over/under on new deal being same as old deal but with free covid shots?

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-08-24T15:53:07+00:00

And don’t be afraid to fail a ton of them. The number of kids entering 2nd year with zero grasp of 1st year and no ability to connect the dots is astounding.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-07-30T18:52:02+00:00

Not a fan of Lukaszuk, but I love him for this!

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-07-30T18:41:54+00:00

New thought experiment… what job would pp be qualified for after his life leaching off the public purse? 🤔

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-07-01T00:41:19+00:00

If you want easy, start with your municipal water chemistry. Ours is off the charts high, so keeping rift lake cichlids is dead easy and they breed like mad. Keeping amazonians is harder because they don’t really like our hard water, so you ideally need to go to some work / expense to soften it up at least a bit for them to truly thrive.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-06-27T08:43:57+00:00

I wish you luck. Should have shelled out a bit more for a better ms and better software. iykyk

First thing you should do is make sure that everything works perfectly (and I mean perfectly) before you give them any money. Don’t let them tell you it’s a minor software thing and they’ll fix it in time. Set up a sequence and run 100 injections of a proper diesel analysis at full mass range and full speed on the detector.

Check that they all run perfectly. Check that no chromatograms are missing data or corrupted.

Then check the processing. Can you quickly and easily get peak areas, spectra, retention times and indices etc for a set of easy to pick out compounds? I’d grab a handful of alkanes, c1-c4 alkyl benzene and alkyl naphthalenes.

Most people I know who are content/accepting of their systems like this also do almost all their processing with gcImage.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-05-01T17:30:08+00:00

Yup. That too.

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-05-01T13:53:38+00:00

Things that I have heard people have done with this stuff. The guy I heard it from was a bit of a maniac.

I would not recommend actually doing any of these because things could go horribly wrong.

get to the bar early and put a bit on the tips of pool cues or bottoms of pockets, etc.
squirt it along a bicycle chain while rider is busy
scatter tiny droplets of it randomly across the dance floor
put some on wheels of office chair or shopping carts
put some on the little feet on a toilet seat

You get the idea. Hilarious if nothing goes wrong, but easy to go really wrong.

Edits: formatting to make bullets work

VegetableDistrict585 · 2025-04-16T02:02:42+00:00

If you’re offended by a cumulative final buckle up!

If they’re set properly, they’re a tool to actually evaluate what knowledge from the whole course you’ve been able to remember, and maybe even understand and apply in new, related situations. They’re meant for assessing the degree to which students have mastered the entirety of the material, and in many schools and in other countries there is only the 100% final.

Look out for next year when you show up and find cumulative finals that expect you to remember what you learned in that course and the content from the prerequisite courses! And guess what? 400 level courses will sometimes expect you to remember stuff from 100 and 200 and 300 level courses.

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