CBC Hamilton spoke to two other homeowners who purchased houses by Marina Homes in the same subdivision. They said they’ve experienced serious issues with how their homes were constructed, but are reluctant to speak out and worried it will jeopardize their property values.
“Uhhh, no comment. We’re hoping we can scam someone else into buying this house like we were scammed into buying it.”
Some of the videos of this are really frustrating to watch. Like, what are you trying to do!? You just found your spot, now you’re coming back out?? More circling, stopping, going back, going forward. Uughghhh…
I ordered mine from http://clove.co.uk/ and they happily shipped to Canada. It has worked fine in Canada, the US, and Barbados (eSIM and physical SIM).
I like the phone a lot, but whenever it’s talked about I’m surprised how many people feel the urge to chime in on why it wouldn’t work for them.
I’d say my biggest gripe is lack of accessories. I paid the huge price for the official screen protector twice. They both cracked relatively quickly and there are pretty much no other options. I’m using a flexible matte-finish screen protector from Amazon now, but it scratches really easily and will slide around on the screen if I keep my phone in my back pocket.
As someone who lives rurally, I just want to make sure everyone is aware of how important mail service is. FedEx, UPS, DHL won’t deliver to us - not even to our nearest town. If we absolutely need something and they won’t ship Canada Post, we have it sent to a friend’s house a 1.5 hour drive away.
Do this! Years ago a very nice post lady asked me if I wanted to get flyers in my mail. I said “hell no.” And, now I don’t! Now I just get junk mail from companies that send their junk as actual mail. So, 100% my credit card company.
I call what I’m doing “time journalling,” but that might not be the correct term. Every day I get a new note, I have a keyboard shortcut that puts in the time, and I write what I’m doing. I also have a template for meetings. I use a global shortcut to bring up this note no matter what desktop I’m in, so I always have a note taking surface an ‘F10’ away.
Next, I have “work tracking” notes. In my example below is “LRSF 2024”. So any time I’m working on that I just link to it from my daily note and for the most part, that note just exists so I can scroll through all the work I’ve done on that project using the “Linked mentions” section.
I also have some tags like “PersonalComputing” if it’s related to making something on my computer work, or another tag if it’s a fun/interesting story I might want to remember.
The overhead of this system feels a bit high, but, I have been sticking with it since December or so. I’d say it has been most useful for answering questions like “What happened this day?” I have been able to find things related to work by linking to work tracking notes, but, I’m not sure how that’s going to scale as time goes on.
Actually, a second thing I’m not sure about - I haven’t been very good about integrating information I want to keep accessible long-term in with my other notes. It used to be if I figured something out about ‘ibus’ (for example), I’d add it to some “Linux desktop” note. I’m more likely now to just let it live in my daily notes. On the one hand, I might be more likely to write things down because there isn’t the friction of going to find the right note and worrying about formatting. On the other hand, it seems likely this information will get harder to find if it all lives in date-titled notes.
Anyway, so that’s all my “work” vault. I do something similar for a “Journalling” vault, but I’m not as happy with that setup.
A late addition: I also like using check boxes for things I need to get back to - it’s super fast to do and lets me get back to it later. You can search for unchecked check boxes, so at my weekly review I have a saved search that shows me all the things I thought I should do. Then I either do them or move them to my to-do app. This way I know if there’s an unchecked check box in my “DailyLog” folder, it needs attention.
I’ve reconsidered my view of Anker being a quality brand. I bought a USB C hub of their’s that was supposed to provide 100W power delivery, but it couldn’t keep a 65W Dell laptop happy. So, I powered the Dell separately and still used the hub. After a while the display port started to cut out.
I’ve also bought a USB C PD cable of their’s that was supposed to support 100W power delivery. With my 85W MacBook I noticed that the cable was starting to get hard (non-bendy) spots in it. Soon after my MacBook would report being unplugged when I did anything that would draw significant power.
Ok, so I go over to Amazon and start looking at reviews that are 2 or 3 stars and holy shit. I got the distinct feeling that these were the real reviews. They’re not good.
Their rechargable batteries are so incredible deal.
I have similar feelings, but I’m not sure how to put them into words. Maybe “disappointment”? Like “Oh, not you too, Israel.”
Yes! What is with that? We’re almost assured a terrible wildfire and growing season at this point and everyone is gushing about how nice it is. I mentioned at a coffee shop that I wouldn’t mind snow for some snowshoeing or skiing and the look I got was like I had smeared shit on myself. Well they enjoy not shoveling the walk or need to brush snow off their car.
I thought mentioning farmers and crops would back me up, but no. You know those farmers, always complaining… 🙄
I’m loving the new camera update and I don’t have anyone to tell… I think it’s awesome they’re doing this for a previous-generation phone.
If you are reading this, and you live in an area that got hit with forest fire smoke last year, prepare now and get supplies to build a DIY HEPA filter setup for your home with guides like this:
https://deohs.washington.edu/edge/blog/how-make-box-fan-filter-clean-indoor-air-smoke
I’ve already got my set up ready because I had to last year.
You’ve inspired me to make one for my parents. It really is cheap and easy to do, you just need the foresight to do it because box fans get hard to find in the summer.
I don’t know if this is related, but occasionally I get some new insurance quotes just to make sure I’m not missing out on any deals, and this year I’m being asked for all sorts of details I’ve never been asked before. I’ve been asked for pictures inside and out, documentation from the county, information about my pets, specifics about my roof material, letters from past insurers.
I’ve been with three different insurance companies in the past and it was always just basics like square footage, distance to fire hall. I get the feeling these companies don’t really want my business, but they also don’t want to tell me no, so they just send me on irritating errands to get strange info for them.
I think most people waaay under estimate the risk of reusing passwords. I don’t know if that’s what happened here, but in the security incidents I’ve seen there will often be the initial “No, I only use this password for banking!” and then “well… it’s just for my important accounts.” I’ve also seen the misconception that a complex password means it’s ok to reuse it.
The other thing I’ve seen is people just mashing “agree,” "ok, “yes,” or any kind of prompt. This probably isn’t what happened here, but with device-based 2FA, like when Google sends you an “Allow device?” message, it’s pretty easy for someone to just mash “Allow” so they can get back to whatever it was they’re doing.
I don’t want to come off as victim-blaming, or as overly sympathetic to a big bank, but at some point I think it’s fair to expect individuals to have their own shit in order. I think a reasonable step towards this is that consumers should start demanding safer devices and software.
It’s not immediately obvious how snow pack differs from rain (and not that I’m claiming to know all the ways), but you see it in ponds, sloughs, and dugouts. Once the ground thaws in the Spring, rain doesn’t do much to replenish these bodies of water. It’s the initial melting of snow that fills them, as the water runs until it hits a spot where it can collect. So, a dry winter can affect things for the entire summer.
We didn’t have much snow last winter, and this summer - and continuing to today - we’ve had a lot of thirsty animals around our house. We’ve started putting rocks in the dog water dishes because we’d wake up with mice that had drown in the bowls over night. Deer drink from our birdbath, and this summer any standing water was getting swarmed by bees.
I’m not old enough to say “it’s never been this bad!” but, things definitely don’t feel right.
Ok, sure, but… what about the drought? We’ll live in a dusty wasteland but have our veggies, which we water from… uhh…
Sublime?! What packages are you running with that?
If it’s the Kirkland dog food, I think that’s actually really good dog food. So, no worries there.
It sounds like they’re suggesting most of the businesses they took money back from unintentionally claimed too much. They also said it was the third-parties who assisted with inaccurate claims that they’re most interested in. Considering these would be accountants there might actually be some consequences for them that aren’t just “bad application? That’s a fine.”
Considering the chaos and immediate need that these programs were conceived under, I think that the approach of giving money as quickly as possible then following up when the dust settled was the right approach. Like the premise of our justice system - better that some dishonest people have money they don’t deserve temporarily than those in dire need go without.
Also, do we know they’re not being charged interest?
I have to say that hearing this story initially, then reading this update has made me question how I might jump to conclusions.
The security footage sounds really damning. In the least, it proves the woman lied about the police not talking to her. Her and the neighbors cursing at the guy suddenly makes the “neighbors agree this guy just complains a lot” fact a lot more suspect.
In all, I can totally see this might be a case of racist neighbors, and not simply “police charge teaching assistant with a water gun with assault.”