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In part one of this saga I described how CIBC had sent me a text with a phone number to get them to call them, and how this is wrong. I just went through my spam folder and found this gem: Dear BradCavanagh, Please contact us as soon as possible at 1-866-454-4339 (in Canada & U.S.) or 416-785-1331…
A Brewery District follow-up
I want to do a little bit of a follow-up to my previous post about building heights in the Brewery District. I posted that because I kept getting annoyed at Sapperton residents saying things like “Wesgroup mislead us” and “it was eight storeys all along.” I did a little more digging, and found the McBride-Sapperton…
Wherein I describe “fractally wrong” using Christy Clark as an example
I like to use the phrase “fractally wrong”. Loosely, it means “wrong no matter how deep you look” or “wrong no matter how many ways you look”. It’s best served up with an example. British Columbia Christy Clark was recently featured in a Vancouver Sun article. Let me pull some quotes from that story to…
This might be the best thing I have ever done on the Internet
Note to self, Baba O'Riley is best karaoke troll song. Everyone knows it and sings along, but forgets about the 2 minute instrumental outro. — Jason (@XaiaX) June 16, 2013 @XaiaX well hopefully people remember that so next time they *puts on sunglasses* won't get fooled again. YYEEAAHH! — Brad Cavanagh (@CanSpice) June 16, 2013
The Amalgamation Hipsters of New Westminster
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