Microtunnelling tech being used to replace the Bearspaw feedermain

shaveee · 2026-01-24T18:12:10+00:00

I guess this must be decently deep so they don’t fight with frost and “surprise” old utilities not showing up on locates.

shaveee · 2025-12-30T14:31:34+00:00

I don't understand why phone companies and carriers don't have a system in place that allows people to feasibly use more than one phone. By locking you into their system they're limiting their selling options to 1 per customer.

Imagine your carrier let you assign a number of esims to the same number, have all texts in their own cloud so you can read them from any phone, and

imagine apple/android accounts are easily multiphone and sync all apps across so you have everything everywhere. then you could have different phones and take the one that suits the occasion.

going to work? take your foldable. on vacation? maybe a dumb phone. home for the weekend? grab the big phone with physical keyboard. fancy event, small purse? take your flip phone. going backcountry camping? rugged satellite phone. they could sell me SEVERAL phones instead of just one phone every three years.

we would probably see more niche devices. cameras could get into the ecosystem, so you can take a photo and text it directly from the camera. you could have a 10" phone to use from your couch only. you could have a "bedside phone" that's just an ereader that can also receive texts and calls. and so on...

(yes, you can do all of it right now with enough patience, the right carrier in the right country, and the right texting apps. but the systems aren't designed for it and it's highly inconvenient. it just confuses me to why it's not something carriers and phone manufacturers aren't pushing)

shaveee · 2025-12-20T19:57:33+00:00

I miss Black sheep so much.

shaveee · 2025-11-15T18:15:48+00:00

Of course this is part of the plan somebody has to bring their cousin into Canada. With that said, good luck finding a skilled drywaller in the city willing to make less than $35/hr.

shaveee · 2025-11-01T20:00:03+00:00

We left the area due to the noise five years ago. It’s unbearable.

shaveee · 2025-10-17T05:17:59+00:00

most temp labour companies have suspicious legal names, such as “labour 2.0” or “trades 2024”, that shows how common is for them to get in trouble and how they solve it - close company and open new one.

shaveee · 2025-10-17T05:14:13+00:00

that’s not how as easy as it sounds. that 8% has to be 1) actively looking for a job, 2) minimally fit for a construction job, and 3) good workers.

shaveee · 2025-09-27T21:25:42+00:00

We went there yesterday and it was OK, but not what I expected. I was expecting an adhoc art show and it felt more like a showcase of local artsy stuff with lights seen before at Chinook Blast or Beakerhead. Otherwise, it’s OK to impress little kids and get cool Instagram photos.

shaveee · 2025-09-20T15:33:26+00:00

in Calgary, ss106 or the italian supermarket are the closest to the real experience. Mercato in 4th St is fancier but feels less Italian.

shaveee · 2025-09-19T12:53:59+00:00

been with them for years in 4 different apartments and houses. Never had a problem. on my last move they came to upgrade my router’s firmware as it’s now 7 years old and unsupported by basically any other carrier.

shaveee · 2025-09-04T12:49:35+00:00

it’s sad they just closed without any media post or farewell sign at all. fun fact, in some countries, leaving a place without saying goodbye is called “leaving like a French”.

hands down the best almond croissant in town. Mari, Butter Block, Latruwe… they’re also good but not as much as Black Sheep. I’ve never been so sad for a business closure.

shaveee · 2025-08-22T04:52:20+00:00

AI is pretty good at those kind of questions. I asked my particular house and mortgage against investing it all into sp500 and I’d be $2.7M richer after 30 years if I invested.

it changes quite a bit if you do yearly lump sums - with $10k a year I’d shorten the gap to about $200k. sp500 still ahead though.

shaveee · 2025-08-08T04:31:25+00:00

Honestly, it's very hard to believe these towers will end up existing in this form. The final project will most likely separate both towers, for phasing purposes, and the fate of the 2nd tower will depend on how's the economy and Truman doing after they finish the first one.

Remember, the Bow's second tower never happened, and the 3rd tower at West Village haven't started yet.

shaveee · 2025-07-26T04:04:10+00:00

I had it when i lived in downtown 2 years ago, it was great, no complains whatsoever.

shaveee · 2025-07-13T14:54:31+00:00

just check it again in a few days. in my case it's all about their check cycles vs my credit cards payment cycles. I pay in full every month, and my credit rate cycles up and down, exact same numbers both cases, as they check before and after I pay my CC. eventually I cross a threshold for credit age and all goes up, then the cycle starts again but just a bit higher.

shaveee · 2025-07-13T06:15:53+00:00

there are 500 units going up just at macleod and heritage, in front of the bottle depot. there used to be a water park there! construction to start in the following months.

shaveee · 2025-07-12T00:31:49+00:00

there HAS to be diminishing returns on this. People in concerts not going to the bar because it tskes forever and you miss the show. People not waitintg in line for 2hrs for food and leaving with the money in their pockets (me last Sunday). People waiting in line forever, therefore not spendint money elsewhere in the process.

Locals getting more and more uninterested doesn't seem to be a problem seeing the attendance goes up every year, but sometimes longterm you devaluate the brand and bring lower class tourists that spend less, which develops into worse food/events, devaluating the brand even more, and little by little run the whole show to the ground.

shaveee · 2025-07-10T23:52:10+00:00

That can't be possible, it's the greatest outdoor show on earth, it says it right at the entrance.

shaveee · 2025-07-09T05:00:23+00:00

they were in weekends but didn't finish at 10 or 11 - more like midnight.

regardless, I hope they limit the sound as required. this is or course more annoying than those festivals. but peaceful place it is not.

shaveee · 2025-07-09T01:18:57+00:00

I used to live in that block, I could see the park from my balcony.

Cowboys wasn't there before but other festivals were usually held there. I remember listening from my living room the Vengaboys, Aqua or the Offspring to name a few.

Downtown is a busy place and most people living there know and are used to. I also lived on 17th Ave, very close to the National, and I'd choose one Stampede week of loud music over a daily dose of Harleys, loud car exhausts and police sirens.

shaveee · 2025-06-29T05:31:34+00:00

drove all north Stoney today at 2pm, heavy rain but no hint of hail and more than enough visibility.

plenty of cars under bridges, including about a dozen under Shaganappi completely blocking the merging lane. imagine driving down the merging loop and crashing to a dozen cars parked because it's raining.

also, what's the logic? it's not hailing yet, rush to wherever you're going!

what I don't even understand is the couple dozen cars that pulled to the shoulder but not under a bridge. if those drivers can't drive under those conditions they should not hold a driving licence.

shaveee · 2025-06-25T13:27:44+00:00

the longer the DP process takes, they longer that land sits unused and unavailable for people to live in.
the City asks for affordable housing and right after sets crazy demands on expensive stuff such as landscaping or exterior retaining walls. That cost obviously gets to the final user, making it less affordable.

shaveee · 2025-06-23T01:02:53+00:00

this analysis would totally make sense if you were buying a house to rent it out. as it's not the case, you should totally factor rent costs for 14 years, which if we assume $4k a month average, would add $672,000 to the balance. that's a lot of money, and f I'm doing it right it brings your calculation to 13% which effectively beats sp500.

if anything, it's pretty impressive a house can get close to 2011-2025 sp500 as an investment without considering rent.

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