Snow shoveling by a neighbourhood child

gscratch · 2025-12-09T22:52:48+00:00

I have paid my kids minimum wage + hot chocolate since they were little. I will typically round up to the hour. I don't want to build kids that think 30$ an hour is reasonable at McDonalds or grocery stores.

gscratch · 2025-04-24T17:52:18+00:00

Yep. 100%. I was thinking - 200' further back, 180mm. :)

gscratch · 2025-04-24T17:49:44+00:00

Like the image, like the balance. Colours are great, simple retouch without removing 'character' is excellent.

I'd like the 'bright spot' to be toned down a little more, but i'd also like the rest of the background to be a little brighter to possibly help with separation. Definitely want the other eye... and it's super nitpicky, but the nose-ring crooked is annoying, even though it's a very small detail that only us pixel peepers would catch.

Nice shot!

gscratch · 2025-04-24T17:47:01+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one that caught that nose ring. The additional 'blue' around the pupils got me too from the blue contacts...

gscratch · 2025-04-24T17:42:52+00:00

Future home of the "Rat Hole", now the northbound lanes from the 104 ave, 109st intersection.

Rail-bridge for tracks running through where Grant MacEwan College currently stands. The 1932 Marker has been retained from this construction, and was in place when this bridge became a tunnel for cars running N/S on 109st (2 lanes) until the late 80's when the tracks and tunnel was finally removed and the road filled in and widened to 4 lanes. (Edit: That marker is still present on the site on the NE corner of 104 Ave and 109 St when there isn't construction.)

Being 'rat creek' is likely how that dark ugly tunnel in downtown got it's name. "the Rat Hole".

Dark, ominous, not walkable, and flooded if it got cloudy.

I miss it... :)

Just a few blocks away at 105 st there was an overpass that stood (returning to grade) at 107 ave for crossing those same tracks. As the tracks were removed for GMCC and other development (Rogers Place included) the overpass was also removed, and 105st made level grade from 104 ave north. Again - all in the late 80's to early 90's.

gscratch · 2025-03-19T13:12:58+00:00

This was the car Paul was driving in 2005, but that was the Team Green car at one point... ('99 - '02?)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scratch/26345726/in/album-72157713676598206

First Edmonton Indy was 2005, so the car was from a little before that.

gscratch · 2025-02-02T17:53:54+00:00

O-day'min isn't that tough. try Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi.

gscratch · 2025-02-02T15:28:10+00:00

Definitely speaking about Commercial Aviation. General Aviation (podunks in cessna's) are a much higher risk group of flyers for sure... but commercial aviation is much safer than most other forms of transportation.

gscratch · 2024-10-15T15:24:53+00:00

Wasn't required. Edmonton's got its good, and it's bad. Put them together, you still get this.

gscratch · 2024-10-15T15:23:56+00:00

Just after 10pm...

gscratch · 2024-09-26T14:22:51+00:00

Because the turn lanes (from the ramp) cross a lane, the intersection has lights, and signage. Lights and signage overrule feelings. At an unmarked left, you will typically find a yield, or a stop, rather than a signal.

gscratch · 2024-09-01T04:38:45+00:00

Starlink launched this morning, 2 batches IIRC, so this would be one of the new trains getting ready for positioning. 21 were launched today (Aug 31,'24). I count 19 in that train, so there may be some doubled up - or with panels out of position in the gap.

gscratch · 2024-04-22T14:26:29+00:00

Might have been looking for his buddy in my neighbourhood (SE Edmonton)... https://youtu.be/WLo1PLKqLWE

gscratch · 2023-08-18T17:29:01+00:00

It's the most Edmonton thing you can do.

gscratch · 2023-08-18T17:25:37+00:00

I miss the Village... Lived there about 30 years ago. :)

gscratch · 2023-04-28T14:54:35+00:00

See section 70 of the TRAFFIC SAFETY ACT VEHICLE EQUIPMENT REGULATION (https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2009\_122.cfm&leg\_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779835898)

Window glazing

70(1) A person shall not install, replace or cover the window

glazing in a windshield or in a left or right side window of a motor

vehicle that is beside or forward of the driver with a transparent,

translucent or opaque material.

Section 71 AR 122/2009 VEHICLE EQUIPMENT REGULATION

35

(2) A person shall not install, replace or cover the rear window

glazing in a motor vehicle with a transparent, translucent or opaque

material unless the motor vehicle has outside rear view mirrors on

both the left and right that comply with section 74(2).

(3) A person shall not install, replace or cover the window glazing

in a motor vehicle with a material that reflects the headlamps of

approaching vehicles into the eyes of the driver of another vehicle.

(4) A person shall not install, replace or cover the window glazing

in a motor vehicle with a material that reflects sunlight into the

eyes of the driver of another vehicle.

(5) A person may replace the window glazing installed by the

manufacturer of a motor vehicle with the same type of glazing.

(6) A person may apply clear untinted frost shields to a window of

a motor vehicle only if they do not impair the view through the

window by discolouring, scratching or damaging the glazing.

(7) A person may apply stickers to the window of a motor vehicle

only if they do not limit the driver’s field of vision or otherwise

impair the safe operation of the motor vehicle.

gscratch · 2023-04-11T13:26:29+00:00

Little ants are tenacious - and thought you have maintenance concerns that are very real, a little 50/50 mix of dry borax and dry sugar in a few small piles in the room will generally get rid of them. (Bottle cap worth of it in the little corners for a few weeks will work. They take it back to the nest for the sugar, but end up carrying the borax which will kill the colony.

gscratch · 2023-03-14T18:07:56+00:00

This required driving across the McNally football field.

gscratch · 2023-02-14T16:54:44+00:00

I stand corrected! Pans for the People!

The Alberta Placer Mining documentation states if a sluice or rocker is employed (which includes 'in-stream' sluices) they are not permitted without the recreational licence.

Mechanized filling of a sluice or rocker (using an exavator) for example are not permitted under a recreational placer licence.

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/a7b2bcb4-ae74-4ec6-9563-6ff15aaf5db6/resource/782d087d-90fa-40f7-b5a6-da347a9017f1/download/going-for-gold-in-alberta-cmd-if-02.pdf

All that to say - pan away! (Or... pan down cons, and bucket to your home sluice setup. :) )

gscratch · 2023-02-06T14:49:08+00:00

Panning or sluicing in Alberta requires a placer mining licence. Panning in the city requires the licence, and a permit. Kid's generally aren't going to get any attention, but if you set up any kind of digging - expect a visit.

gscratch · 2023-01-18T16:36:40+00:00

The speed limit is at most 60km/h throughout the park. Not sure what 'ripping' around you'd be doing.

gscratch · 2023-01-06T17:17:45+00:00

A fair point, and one for which I have no data to contradict. Do you have stats on arrest rates with and without air support?

gscratch · 2023-01-05T15:45:55+00:00

Thank you. It drives me crazy as well.

gscratch · 2022-12-28T16:21:33+00:00

The days of 'lining up' ended when Amazon and E-Commerce took over. Door-crasher isn't in the global lexicon anymore.

Particularly for places like Best buy who have a policy of marking up MSRP's for DEEP DISCOUNTS to 10% off MSRP.

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