I thought I’d pass on a couple of Uber-related things that I have figured out. I am happy to say I really haven’t had any worse of an experience than I’ve had with cabs, and most of the Ubers have been way better. I’m very thankful, though, that I never had to deal with this …
Category Archives: Guelph
Welcome To KW, Uber
Unless something suddenly changes in the next few minutes, at 2 this afternoon Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton and London will officially have Uber. Predictably because this seems to happen everywhere it goes, its arrival has local taxi people and some politicians all upset. I get that part of the issue is safety and that is …
Southern Ontario Is Getting Another New Area Code
I’m sure this is old news to some of you, but I’m putting it here so that next June when people start giving me strange phone numbers I won’t have to puzzle over where the hell they live. I did that forever when they brought in 226 back in 2006 because I somehow missed that …
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Are We A Curse?
I was joking nearly nine years ago when I called us the apartment building kiss of death, but my god, it feels like every place we’ve lived in has had a big ol’ fire in it. Sure, the fires happen mostly after we’re gone, but still. We’ll start with the fire in the first building …
File Of Life: Why?
I was just scrolling through Twitter, and saw this article about a new program being started up by emergency services in Guelph. It was some kind of wacky fridge magnet that was supposed to save lives, so of course I had to read about it. I guess the program is called “File of Life” and …
I Thought You Said You Wanted To See Some I.D.I.C.K.
Sometimes I worry that there’s going to come a time when the weird news stories are going to get so over the top that we’ll run out of things to post because we’ll have literally seen everything and won’t be phased by anything anyone throws at us. But then I get completely hung up on …
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The Wrong Kind Of Accessibility Advocate
In his current form, Matt Wozenilek is the exact kind of person the accessibility movement doesn’t need. I thought so when I first heard is name a few years ago, and I think so now. Have a look at the story and accompanying video here and see if you see what I see. What I …
The Guelph Public Library’s Free Internet Access Is Safe…For Now
In April, I wrote about the trouble the Guelph Public Library was about to have thanks to the Harper government cutting the funding that makes free internet access there possible. Today, there’s an update on the fundraising effort that Cam Guthrie launched to help save it. According to the story, funding for 2013 has been …
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Moving? If Hiring A Mover, Avoid Metropolitan Movers And Shuttle Moving North York
So yeah…about that Metro Movers mowdown we keep promising. Here it comes. Hope you like long stories…ah who am I kidding? You must like ’em, you keep coming back here, don’t ya? So you’re probably wondering why the heck we hired movers anyway. Well, for a combination of reasons. Most of the people we would …
Moving-Related Goodness: GRT Is Great!
Hehehehehehe. A little joke for folks reading Braille. GRT is great. Yes, yes it is. It’s the contraction for great, but Grand River Transit, which is GRT, is also great…at least so far. Here’s why. When I was preparing to move, I was trying to be all efficient and things. Learn about things in advance, …
