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Especially the boardroom scene with the name of the drug "Tranqala". Almost as catchy as "Gleemonex".

No monkeys were abused in the making of this post.

When the RCAF retires the Snowbirds' CT-114 at the end of the airshow season, not only does it end the 55 years of service of the type with the Snowbirds, it closes (from what I can gather) another huge chapter in Canadian aerospace history:

This was the last in service purpose built military aircraft model designed and built by Canadair and, in fact, all of Canadian aircraft manufacturers.

Figured I'd share:

Get a call from my wife last Thursday evening that it's showing low propulsion power CEL, full battery & zero range. The classic symptoms. She limps it home, confirm the symptoms.

Friday morning, go to limp it to the dealer, it won't do anything, just shift to park in any gear position. Get it towed to the dealer after the service center is closed for the day.

Service advisor phones Monday lunchtime (service departments aren't open on the weekends in Quebec) to ask what's up. Tell him I suspect BECM failure. He says he's busy and not sure if he'll be able to have it diagnosed until Tuesday.

Got a call today at 10am: BECM changed and the car is ready for pickup, all cov

I had an ablation for Afib last week. When the electrophysiologist came by in the recovery room to let me know how it went, she mentioned that I have permanent left SCV that is not causing any issues.

I have googled the condition, but the results are very much medical jargon and are over my head.

From what I could understand is that the heart starts off with two upper "intake" veins and as the heart develops in utero, the left vein disappears, only leaving the right one. But for some the left one remains. Relatively rare, but at the same time, completely harmless for most with it.

Now, when she visited, I was still not completely "sober" from the anaesthesia, so I might have misheard her:

I'd like to try to convert my grand-maman's cream fudge (sucre à la crème) to a strong maple flavour.

Ideally, I'd like to use dark maple syrup as it's cheap here in Quebec. But I'll use maple sugar if syrup won't work.

The cooking is fairly standard for cream fudge. Get it to 240°F, chill it a bit, then use a beater to aerate until just about to set, and then into the mold.

Here's the Ingredient list (not for those without a serious sweet tooth):

1kg Brown sugar

3 1/4 cups white sugar

3/4 cup corn syrup

1 can evaporated milk

1 can sweetened condensed milk

500 ml heavy cream

250 ml half & half

3 tbsp-ish butter to control the boil

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I had a crown down on my second bicuspid several years ago (no implant). Ever since, I've been getting bouts of mild to moderate pain. Been to the dentist several times (including an endodontist) and their assumption is a food trap causing gum irritation leading to the pain in the area.

Last night at supper, I realized that as I was eating some pickled beets, the pain started and went away after a few minutes. I then noticed a similar effect with while drinking a cola drink today at lunch.

I've been diligent flossing and brushing and sometimes adding a gargle to my hygiene routine. It helps, but never completely gets rid of the pain. Last night and today, my gums appear to be nice and pink

Testing out my dad's X-1000R in order to sell it. Replaced the belt and freed the pinch rollers.

Everything is working as it should, except for the auto-reverse. Put a new foil on the tape I was listening to and no change.

Is this a potentially easy fix? If not, I'll sell it as fully functional except for the auto-reverse.

My system is an outdoor unit with and indoor forced air handler. Heatpump with heat strips. No changes to the system since installation. No performance issues noted.

We've just noticed a whining sound, pulsing at times (doesn't sound like a vibration) from the return closest to the air handler. I'd like to go through the DIY-able checks and fixes before calling a tech.

My troubleshooting so far:

- It's not in defrost mode (the strips come on and the registers are warmer in defrost)

- Filter was clean a week or so ago.

- Indoor coil was checked and was clean a few months ago when checking after drywall work in the house.

- Outdoor unit was hosed off a month or so ago.

- Only happe

I'm currently running octopi on a pi 3B+. The wifi us dead on it. I need to move the printer to where I won't have a network jack. I'm going to switch to a pi Zero 2W.

My question: if I just install my SD card from the 3B+, will it work, or do I need to create a fresh image?

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I figured after the popularity of the toilet paper question today, I'd ask another poopy question:

For the First Nation communities that were fairly sedentary (in my area, it would be the Nations of the St. Lawrence Valley), how did they manage the human waste in a village that sometimes could have hundreds of inhabitants?

Most, if not all, of these cultures were aware of the importance of personal hygiene (daily swims, etc), so it stands to reason that waste management would have been managed somehow.

4 wheeler here with a travel trailer.

I think my weight distribution setup is off and want to run through a scale to check my axle loading.

I'm currently near Val d'Or. No CAT scales (a Quebec thing) and googling only gets me the SAAQ one in Louvincourt.

Does anyone know of one? I figured with the mining and forestry industry around here it wouldn't be so hard.

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies, I'm camping with no cell service or Wi-Fi and won't be able to reply easily.

Costco does not have the filter listed for the 2.7 (at least the for the 2023). Their business case to keep the cost low is to only offer what they keep in stock.

For the confused: Costco Canada offers oil changes. Best deal around, would have been $70 ($50 US) for Mobil 1 full synthetic.

My daughter was in line for Ian McDiarmid autograph and ending up chatting with the biological component of a Dalek.

When it was my daughter's turn, she was short $100 (planning ahead is not my daughter's strong suit). The Dalek lent her the money to get Ian's signature. He was next in line. After he got his signature, my daughter said "all rights, let me get to an ATM to pay you back.". He declined the offer.

Thank you Mr. Dalek, you made my daughter's weekend!