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Matthew Laird
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But keep on drilling, baby, drill, more oil!
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tech-geek. former bioinformatics grunt worker. political addict. trying to improve the world around him.
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Matthew Laird
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But keep on drilling, baby, drill, more oil!
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Matthew Laird
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Hello from Bellevue.
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Matthew Laird
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If my electric meter really is broken and they're doing my bills off of estimates, I guess I might as well run the heat pump in cooling mode. I'm not sure what changed but now it's suddenly cooling.
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Matthew Laird
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Walking home at 11:00 p.m., catching one of your neighbors with their automatic sprinklers on, yeah, I'm totally phoning 311 tomorrow. I even took some photos and a video.
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Matthew Laird
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Buses every 2-4 minutes during rush hour, and a crush load at 10:30pm, yeah, the R4 definitely needs rapid transit. Keep that tunnel machine going to UBC and loop it back east along 41st after.
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Matthew Laird
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I was going to suggest you should build a private patio off his office out the front of City Hall, with views of the river, that could be a pretty fun and exclusive spot.
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I'm waiting here so I'm not sitting in the park drinking alone. That wouldn't be a good look.
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Matthew Laird
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I mean it's legal if I crack a beer now right? We have the mayor's blessing?
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Matthew Laird
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This is going pretty deep into the trees, am I going to leave with all my internal organs?
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Matthew Laird
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Why Translink, why do the 101 and 155 leave 22nd St at the exact same time, they cover the same route to uptown. They should be staggered!
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Matthew Laird
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The same thing which happened last year is happening again, the first time we turn the heat pump to cooling for the year it runs in heating mode. Last year when the tech came two days later it worked perfectly without touching a thing. This iFlow has been trouble since day one.
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I'm going to have to cook dinner for the family early and get out of here to make it for then, nobody tell anyone on my team.
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Matthew Laird
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Lorenzi and I are talking about beverages at some New West establishment tonight, anyone interested in joining this pair of losers?
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Matthew Laird
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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social We have a really mature way to get private businesses to fund infrastructure in this country, it's called taxes!
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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for that call-out that the NDP are sounding like Christy with their LNG and fracking support which are at odds with their climate goals and decarbonizing. That was an amazing quip and question!
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Matthew Laird
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Some of those photos are long overdue for an update....
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Matthew Laird
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The alley thing is weird. I've seen it recommend 3 blocks along an alley rather than a quiet street. Main St too, I live on Ontario, I know that's the better option & ignore it. I've been cycling around the city 30yrs, I know the routes, I'm always curious if there's something I've not thought of
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Matthew Laird
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I've introduced the children to Darkwing Duck, they're enthusiastically watching it nightly now. I approve.
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No. While he was the voice of mornings for decades & I listened to him for years too, he was firmly of the establishment & never asked interviewees difficult questions. Politicians were allowed to lie & spin things however they wanted without challenge. Gloria isn't much better in that respect.
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Well that's fun, Google sent me on a biking route that had me crossing Oak and Granville where there were no pedestrian lights.
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Looking at the new Pattullo Bridge pillars, did anyone suggest building a restaurant across the top of the 4 pillars?
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Matthew Laird
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Huh, a few sections of the lim reaction rail are missing at Joyce Station. I've never seen that before.
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Matthew Laird
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When we're out and about with the kids, it's amazing how often we would use different sections of the route for a hypothetical streetcar between Stanley Park and Granville Island. It's too bad that the whole idea was killed.
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Matthew Laird
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The annoyance every time I miss a train because I had to cross Cambie, because Kevin Falcon was too cheap to build a high quality transit line with multiple station entrances....
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Matthew Laird
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Kids had leftover KD, I put crispy chili oil, sauteed garlic scapes, and a dollop of sour cream, holy crap was that good!
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Matthew Laird
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Advice: never try to grab a falling saw
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Matthew Laird
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When is the drought beginning again so the grass will die and don't have to keep mowing? Also because I have a manual mower I feel no guilt at doing it at 7:30 on a Saturday morning.
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Garden harvest for the year has begun, we've gotten a few strawberries and raspberries and now I just grabbed all the garlic scapes. I'll sautee those up tonight.
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Matthew Laird
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But isn't that what the public service arsonist are also saying? "I'll make things more efficient, I'll find magic savings no one else has before." Well these public servants have, let's praise them for it!
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Matthew Laird
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Gotta pander and push that narrative, all the problems in society are those free-loads.
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Matthew Laird
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I'm actually going into the office today but I'm taking lunch with me, every dollar is going towards our mortgage. Sorry local economy, blame Macklem.
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Matthew Laird
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Oh I'm betting it's like so many things, "that's how it's always been." And no desire to make the investment to change things (eg buying out or building new public hospitals)
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Matthew Laird
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And we thank you for it.
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Matthew Laird
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Yesterday's by-election results genuinely terrified me.
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Matthew Laird
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Did someone warn Edmonton about what happens when teams lose game 7 of a hard fought series? Vancouver has some notes to help you prepare.
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Matthew Laird
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While crossing the street with wife. Wife: You never wait for the white man. Me: I don't obey the man.
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Matthew Laird
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For those parroting PP's carbon tax bs as the cause and way of grocery price pain, Australia doesn't have a carbon tax & is having the same pain. More competition & a code of conduct, that sounds familiar. It's the small number of multinationals that are the problem.
www.news.com.au/finance/busi...
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Matthew Laird
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Can we please follow Europe's lead and require all heavy machinery to stop using beeping reversing signals, and instead use the chuffing kind. If it's passed EU safety requirements (probably higher than anything in North America) that's good enough for me.
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Matthew Laird
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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Why are we not also asking why a religious organization owns a public healthcare facility to begin with. Why any private organization owns a public hospital.
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Matthew Laird
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Two posts in my feed all weekend, does this mean I actually need to find a life in the real world again?
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Matthew Laird
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It's almost like that should be a condition put on the import duty, offer cheaper smaller vehicles. But in typical fashion, we can't possibly interfere in the market, except when the market wants help making higher profits at the expense of the public.
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Matthew Laird
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Oh I don't have a problem with protecting good paying Auto making jobs, it's the car manufacturers who refuse to make smaller electric vehicles which are less profitable that pisses me off. The same vehicle size creep with gas cars, for higher profits per vehicle.
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Matthew Laird
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We are not in a climate with much money for deferred profitability companies right now, any not yet profitable company is going to have trouble sustaining itself for the next few quarters to years. My brother-in-law was laid off from a different e-vehicle manufacturer you've probably never heard of.
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Matthew Laird
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They have a nice vehicle configurator on their website, that wasn't enough? (colleagues made it)
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Matthew Laird
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I am so looking forward to dropping my account with them in a week and a half.
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Matthew Laird
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Hey New Westies, did you know it was originally supposed to be called 4th Street Station? I actually didn't.
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Matthew Laird
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Groundhog day, kids, work, kids, work. This place is too quiet. I'm trying to think of a little project for a hobby, so far nothing that doesn't require hardware investments. Otherwise I'm bored.
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Matthew Laird
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Every few months a Fortis meter reader still wanders around the property looking for the meter. And I have to tell them we don't have a gas line.
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Matthew Laird
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Don't you have tickets to work on?
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Matthew Laird
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Is there a new cool place we weren't invited to? Now I'm back to only chatting with colleagues, and there's this one guy....well, I won't get into it here.
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