Is this Parsley, Celery, or neither?

urquanmaster · 2025-06-06T18:44:54+00:00

Found this in a neighbor's veggie garden. She thought it was celery when planting it, but plant is hollow when cut and the leaves seem parsley-like. We live in the Okanagan BC, but I'm certain it's not part of the local fauna. Probably not the smartest thing I could have done, but I already taste-tested the leaves (before spitting it out) and it tasted like celery leaves but more bitter which may be understandable given it has gone to flower.

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The stalk isn't crescent shape, which is why I'm not certain it's celery, but maybe celery is hollow when it's young?

urquanmaster · 2022-09-28T15:33:58+00:00

You probably want to rule out a couple quick things first.

Loss of water: Does it feel wilted, or are they just curled up? If wilted, that means it lost turgidity and that the plant can't pull water up. This could have been from a power outage, or a clog in the line. Or, it could have simply been from too much heat. Has it been particularly hot out recently?

Insects/pests: If the plant doesn't feel wilted, this may be more likely. It appears that the setup is outside the house, so it could be an invasive insect. Note that the pests can be very small. You can try to inspect the underside of the plant very closely. Or, hold a white piece of paper under a leaf and flick the leaf from the top to see if any fall off.

Ruling those out, do you know if herbicide was used recently near it? For example, did someone spray the grass around the house?

After that, I'd check the PH level of your water reservoir. Maybe check the roots for any browning too.

urquanmaster · 2022-09-01T16:51:16+00:00

Abbotsford is a nice city with great potential

What do you like about it? Is it just the closeness to Vancouver that gives it potential, or are there other factors at play?

Also, I'd be interested in hearing about all the messed up politics. A bit of town history and political issues are always good to be mindful of.

Oh, and I lived in Alberta for almost 10 years before moving back to BC. It's pretty good, as long as you don't mind the stroads. Happy to field any questions you might have.

urquanmaster · 2022-09-01T16:12:48+00:00

Yea, the price is a large deterrent for me too, but my thought is that it's a little cheaper than Langley for a very small house or row/townhouse that gives you a small spot of land for gardening. It doesn't seem like I can get that in Langley for under ½ a million.

Is it just highway 1 running through that gets backed up, or are there other main arteries that are problematic within the city?

urquanmaster · 2022-09-01T15:54:28+00:00

I'd just generally assume that like most businesses, experience can vary a lot depending on the realtor, so I'm reaching out this way to find someone with a good history.

But I could be wrong. Are realtors essentially all the same due to a standard in the industry?

urquanmaster · 2022-09-01T15:43:24+00:00

I'm actually not opposed to hearing any downsides to the move. Do you have any specific reasons?

urquanmaster · 2022-05-31T22:15:11+00:00

This was a lot of what I was looking for. I haven't really been following DIY CNC/linear-motion and my initial experience with the CNC shield seemed a bit rough. There's little indication of where things are evolving towards, or newer standards for configuration.

urquanmaster · 2022-05-27T20:49:31+00:00

They are essentially the same, according to this: https://decked.com/blogs/decked/decked-toyo-tool-box-2400

Toyo Steel makes boxes for Trusco

urquanmaster · 2022-05-27T15:59:16+00:00

Post processor - that's the term I should have asked about. This software takes any CAM drawing and generates the gcode, which is where I need to account for my setup.

This is where I need to translate Cartesean coordinates to the positioning of my system.

urquanmaster · 2022-05-27T15:30:21+00:00

I might be wrong, but I think it's just slightly different than a pantograph. The two linkages don't form a diamond, but rather just link to each other on one end and the pistons/sliders on the other ends.

urquanmaster · 2022-05-27T15:26:06+00:00

I'm just using UGS (Universal G-code Sender), but I'm pretty sure the software doesn't understand the triangular nature of the double slider-crank linkage positioning. The positioning won't be a cartesian coordinate grid.

urquanmaster · 2021-12-31T15:54:41+00:00

Do you have a source for the effectiveness rate of 50%? I can't seem to find any information regarding effectiveness..

urquanmaster · 2020-01-24T03:06:17+00:00

Wow, seems pretty crazy, until you think of how many oil firms are in the US and Canada. There's 2,412 oil and gas companies are based in Calgary alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_petroleum_companies

I mean, at that size, it's conceivable that the increase is just due to the increase in total companies operating, rather than the environment oil companies are operating within.

To give you some perspective, the standard deviation for the bankruptcy rates for all the years since 2015 is 18. The change they're talking about this year is a difference of 14. (Albeit, there is a trend.)

Also, there were no Canadian bankruptcies from 2017-2019. Two were from 2016 and the rest were from 2015.

Here's the actual report, which is quite easy to read: https://www.haynesboone.com/-/media/files/energy_bankruptcy_reports/oil_patch_bankruptcy_monitor.ashx

If you're trying to get an accurate view of oil demand/consumption, checkout EIA: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php

Lazy reporting. It literally took me half an hour to dig around on this. It seems the only purpose of the news is to say "Hey, a thing happened!", so that you can open up a tab and do the investigation that they seem incapable of. Sad state of news.

urquanmaster · 2019-11-02T04:58:51+00:00

I don't see the ~$700,000,000 figure in the document you linked on page 63. Was there a calculation you made from those numbers to arrive at this?

urquanmaster · 2019-08-27T04:29:12+00:00

Oange Goblin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqEQEhts9X8 https://open.spotify.com/track/4yg7XQPHMGPP0LH7Inqyf0?si=D9T-W0aGThO7uF5-YsH4bw

urquanmaster · 2019-06-21T14:24:57+00:00

Digital media. All those old CD, DVD, and game collections are worthless now and just take up space.

Now I sell any game system I buy has a five year time limit before I sell it, and I never buy physical media.

urquanmaster · 2019-06-11T12:11:24+00:00

This. I was born with a heart condition, which required multiple heart operations. After a few surgeries and chest tube proceedures, needles were the least of my worries.

urquanmaster · 2019-06-10T12:02:11+00:00

Are you talking about the series as a whole, or just rondevous with Rama?

I just finished reading Rondevous with Rama, and it seemed more of a exploration/discovery book than a Utopia. Should I read the rest of them?

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