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I keep mason bees. Today was another nice spring day, and the forecast was for continuing warm temperatures through the week (highs between 15 and 17), so it’s the perfect time to put out mason bee cocoons. The cocoons on the left are from last season. My mason bees laid about a dozen eggs, which…

Trick question: it always is. But unfortunately, some people in New Westminster seem to believe that it magically ceases to be a stop sign under some circumstances. The intersection of Sixth Avenue and First Street has a pedestrian-controlled flashing green light on Sixth, and stop signs on First. If you need pictures, here you go:…

Patrick Johnstone is running for New Westminster City Council. He answered my questions using graphics and photos that he was already using on his blog, New Westminster In My Back Yard. Creative, innovative, and showing a distinct amount of laziness to not come up with new answers! Thank you Patrick! I shouldn’t have to mention…

Mark Gifford is running for School Trustee in New Westminster, and he answered my questions. Thank you for answering! Obviously this is all satire, obviously. The biggest issue in this year’s election is undoubtedly the replacement of New Westminster Secondary School, an issue that has been going on for at least a decade. Every legitimate…

No, and fuck off. This counter-opinion is published in response to the stupid NYTimes article titled “Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?” that I won’t link to because it’s fucking stupid.

Short answer: When it’s a JavaScript arguments object. Long answer: In a JavaScript package I’m writing, I have a function that returns an object. There’s a bug in it where in certain situations it returns the JavaScript value true. I have a test framework set up with Mocha using the Chai assertion library. With it,…