Bike theft not a thing in downtown Kitchener?
My new office is in the heart of downtown Kitchener. An odd thing I have noticed more than a few times… nice bikes not secured. The city has these bike-shaped bike racks directly on the street, but, instead, people just lean their bike up against the shop and go in. This image below is from…
Experiments with the light board
Over at my company YouTube channel I’ve posted a few light board videos, mostly test runs through with short ~3min videos. I’ve tried a few techniques that seem to have worked well and thought I would share. First, clean the glass. Both sides. Speckles of dust become beacons! Second, no light on the camera side…
City Operations: Snow removal
I don’t know what surprises me more: there is a 2-hour 4K video of snow removal? That 1.1M people have viewed it? That @ 1:47:39 we happen upon a snow pile so high that they tunneled through it for pedestrians? Anyway you look at it, its better than most reality tv out there.
Project lightboard
So today I headed to home depot. In the decking aisle I obtained a 42×36″ piece of glass designed to be a railing. I purchased a pair of 2×4″ w/ a groove cut as well. I then bodged these together, somewhat like below. I took a LED light strip and wrapped it around the glass…
Phase 1 of blocking robo calls goes live in Canada today
The CBC did a good job of explaining the phases and restrictions. In a nutshell, as of December 19, 2019, Telco in Canada must either block invalid caller ID numbers (e.g. ones that are not dialable), or, provide the user some filtering options. Now, this will be unlikely to make much difference. The spammers just…
Long Strange Trip
