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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I actually took a vacation. It was fantastic!

    And then the airline canceled the flight home. Nope, no more today. The flight had a busted windshield wiper or so, and they couldn’t fly that plane. No, no hotel.

    Got the same flight home the next day, after an overnight in a big Mexican airport, now jammed in with the people already booked to go home that day. Most of us didn’t make that flight and we left them behind.

    At our next leg they had minor issues with a dusting of snow in a light Canadian winter. De-icing is expensive and so they thought they just wait for it to warm up a bit. There we were, tired and still dressed in the Resort Wear from the day before, in a little unheated spur of the jetway around freezing temps. We begged for blankets from the desk since we couldn’t get jackets from our bags.

    A few hours later we got our regional flight home and a day or so later our bags showed up (to our amazement).

    How did you know it was Air Canada ?




  • Prep the downvotes.

    I live in a larger Canadian city. I used to commute via transit. Sometimes the bus driver would stop abruptly. Every time the driver needed to stop the bus hard - twice a month - it was a bicyclist driving erratically, like cutting off a transit bus or, in one case, brake-checking the bus.

    I’ve almost been hit twice - same intersection, different days - by a cyclist running the red, shooting through the crosswalk I was on, and cursing me out for it.

    I have an idea as to why drivers worry about more bikes on the roadways.

    I’ve been abroad. I’ve seen segregated bikeways where there’s a ribbon of green space between bicyclists and cars. This works really well. What they’re doing here Does Not .

    But the reverse is true, and this is why I do not envy bicyclists : they’re gonna die on these metro roadways where they are mixing bikes and cars and tractor-trailers and buses, and fast. I have no desire to be someone else’s lesson on blind spots.





  • I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.

    But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.

    Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.









  • If you asked the question properly and they still gave you more grief than help, then it’s their fault for sure.

    Without knowing the context - that’s key both questions, the one you asked then and the one you’re asking now - we can’t be sure what happened. And I’m not going to jump to conclusions about how much context you started with in your actual question because that is no help to you.

    I say point us to the question – and accept we’re going to answer honestly.