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Yeah, my parents said the same thing about Bermuda also.

It's a huge pet peeve of mine right now, because I'm dealing with a ton of suppliers and wholesales all crying the blues to me about how prices are going up because of the drop in the loonie, yet I don't recall having received a string of discounts back when the loonie shot up from 65 cents to...

heh, I have a 3 Mbit up connection, and I can watch 720p content on my 3G Nexus 4 with Plex just fine.

It's still fucking bullshit, because prices don't magically start dropping across the board the second the dollar goes up.

Not pathetic, no. He does look like an overgrown man-child, though. If I had photoshop, I'd slap him in to a poster of Big.

Pretty sure that my i5-750 never gets past 10-15% utilization when transcoding even large Bluray rips.

I don't like the danger of it, that's a big downside to it in my books. But I do enjoy the hell out of it because of the adrenaline rush aspect. That said, I draw the line at single black diamond runs at Whistler and Silver Star. I had a buddy who trained a couple experienced riders on Crabapple...

NAS boxes that can transcode are going to run you a lot more than a HTPC, in all likelihood. On the other hand, I'm not sure if a Roku can handle every file type, codec, and resolution you're going to throw at it. But you can just have a desktop PC running the Plex server software to do the...

Nope. And I already know there's going to be at least one more destination wedding in 2015. For fuck's sake!

I'm heading back to Negril in a couple weeks for another wedding. Hoping the experience is far, far better this time around (Montego Bay last time, see OP). Asshole friends and their shitty destination weddings three out of the past four years are pissing me off. Gonna take my advanced scuba...

No, they felt that soldiers dying and shit was god's justice rendered upon the US for tolerating faggotry.

To be honest, I don't really care enough to look. I think that the differences in life expectancy between rural and urban populations in both NA and Europe boil down to rich vs. poor. It just so happens that the situations are reversed, for the most part. People who live out in the country in NA...

I don't have any specific suggestions, but the general one I would give is to not skimp on your monitor. It'll probably last you 2-3 times as long as the PC you built will. I've got a 24" Dell that's getting close to 10 years old, and it was money well spent.

Gap in Life Expectancy Between Rural and Urban Residents Is Growing | Center for Advancing Health Granted, that's rural vs. urban. Couldn't really find anything about urban vs. suburban. As far as the choice between living urban, suburban or rural in North America, there's tons of trade-offs...

Bought one last week, but I haven't really fucked around with any of the features of it. Seems like there's a lot of fancy functionality for sure, but from my perspective I'm not very interested in most of it as I primarily wanted it for a backup drive. And the shitty backup software included...

I found a decent compromise with my girlfriend since she moved in: she does all the cooking, cleaning, and laundry. So I just keep my mouth shut about the hair everywhere, because I sure as fuck am not going to do anything about it.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Looking for some help on some backup issues. I have a Qnap NAS that has all of my media on it, as well as a bunch of documents and other stuff. Basically my entire digital life and everything I've accumulated over the past 20 years is stored there. It's populated with four drives that get...

Nice car, but I can't really agree on yellow. Outside of maybe Lambo's, no car should ever be yellow.

If memory serves, I paid around $1,300 for my 2 first generation Intel 160 gB drives (in total). Still using both of them. Money well spent IMO!

In my experience IT companies charge around $90-120/hr out here in Alberta.

Meh, it really depends on your circle of friends and what you do for hobbies. A year or two ago I was up to 500-600 friends on Facebook, and they were all people that I legitimately knew and would say hi to if we crossed paths walking down the street. Maybe not true "friends", but they weren't...

If memory serves, Heylel has posted a fair amount in the past about what his dad's gotten up to, and my recollection is that he pretty much deserves 98% of the shit flung his way for being an ignorant, stubborn, fucking asshole.

Wells are a fucking pain in the ass to deal with. They require significant maintenance that if not done might end up with you having to drill a new one. I'd rather have a cistern with trucked in water than a well, that's for sure. Even if it costs more money.

Yeah, 31 to 25 isn't a big deal to me either. 25 means that they're probably out of school for a couple years, haven't been living with the parents for at least as long, and are getting their lives established. They're full on adults by then, or very close. That said, there's no question that...

Friedman had a good write up on the whole situation:Why the Roberto Luongo saga finally ended in Vancouver | Hockey | CBC Sports So yes, it basically was due to not playing Luongo on Saturday. That night his agent was given permission to find a destination for him, and his first phone call...

I just can't imagine why in the fuck the best friend's dad is even involved in this shit, let alone to the tune of 12k. I'd be about to fucking murder the guy if I were the other dad. What in the fuck?

Fucking hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Gillis is running a total shit show there. He botched the whole Luongo situation sooooooooo fucking badly it's mind boggling. @Araxen: don't forget they're retaining some of Luongo's salary as well.

Kelowna, which is kind of Canada's answer to California/LA: full of retirees, Hells Angels, and douchebags as far as the eye can see.

Meh, she's not half bad. She could probably snag herself a nice rich older guy, but she's all hippy and shit, so instead she dates losers like herself while daddy still pays the bills. Oh sorry, I checked up on her Facebook, she does have an education. A year of political science at one...

Had to check and see if this was an old story about my spoiled cunt of a cousin, who has basically ski-bummed her way through her 20's in to her 30's and still has no career or education to show for it, because apparently her dad (my uncle) doesn't have the heart to tell her to fuck off and get...

Did you accidentally use bricklayer's mortar instead?

I'm not a fan of caulking toilets at all. Generally it looks like shit, and you want to know if your seal is leaking. And caulking doesn't do a fucking thing for a wobbling toilet.

I'd imagine the same goes for dudes and baldness! What I think is the funniest is how most of the chicks that were the super popular, really hot types end up looking fucking terrible by the time they're in their mid-20's.

You can buy "wobble wedges" or something similar to shim under the toilet to prevent it from moving around due to irregular flooring. Back in the day we used to use little pieces of lead, but now they're little plastic/rubber shims. You shouldn't be using the wax seal itself to try to level or...

I'm still friends with a few dozen people from high school, and often bump in to others just around town. A reunion would probably be fun, but as far as I know there wasn't one for 10 years. Or maybe I wasn't invited. But yeah, I don't get why this is a thread. If you think it's something...

Just out of curiosity, how much damage would getting hit with one of the rotors do to someone's hand or a dog's face?

Woke up at 5am this morning because I heard water gurgling sounds. Turns out there's a water main break in the street, and now our building's heating system is out of commission since it's an incredibly retarded combined domestic water and hot water heating system, and there is no pressure in it...

Never tried it, heard it's very good actually. But I think there is only one or two locations in Edmonton, whereas there must be 100 Subways.

Unfortunately here in Western Canada there is just about zero alternative to Subway, if you want a sandwich. There's a few Quizno's here and there, but otherwise Subway has completely taken over the fast food scene here. They're fucking everywhere. Even tiny little towns of 200 people in the...