I was at 45.292396,-75.930398 at the time, according to Google Maps.
Since I've been playing Fallout 3 lately, my first thought was "Oh shit, the Americans have dropped the bomb on us!"
I volunteer at a local AIDS organization, Bruce House, and have been their sole computer support for the last 7 or so years, both in their office of 10 people, and at their residence/hospice. Mostly desktop upgrades/installs/fixes, but pretty much anything they need. I enjoy the work, I like the people that work there, and I'm happy I can do something for the community. Fortunately my last two jobs have had me working outside of the usual 9-5 grind, so I'm able to go in at least one day a week if they need me.
At least you HAVE mass transit. Ottawa still doesn't after a month of striking, and since the union rejected the latest offer from the city, there's no end in sight.
It's estimated that there are 30% more cars on the road in the city since the strike started. I had to buy a car just so I could keep getting to work, and I will NOT be going back to mass transit.
There's probably a still-secret pneumatic tube system running straight from Parliament, 24 Sussex, and the other major political buildings, all the way to the Diefenbunker in Carp;)
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kdawson
from the when-brooklyn-was-a-considerable-city dept.
TheSync writes "The Division of Labour blog spotlights a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General, that came to the conclusion: 'That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes.' Here is a scan of the original NYTimes article. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"
If someone ever figures out how to translate 0x00 bytes into something that can affect human senses, they'll have developed the Somebody Else's Problem field!