What do Kermit the frog, John the Baptist and Vlad the impaler have in common?
Same middle name
[#]DadJoke
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Well, looks like my life under the rock is too quiet!
I had no idea that GoC had set up a number that Canadians can forward suspicious SMS texts to ... 7726 on any mobile phone connected to Canadian mobile service. The forwarded message is used to prevent that message from going to other recipients. Apparently this has been running since 2021 at least.
Thank you to @cira for their podcast series where I heard about this (the Oct 3, 2024 episode).
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2217252.rss
https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/blogs/reporting-spam-text-messages-7726
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Right before the clock strikes midnight on Dec 31, make sure you raise your left leg. That way, you will start the year off on the right foot.
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Today, the Stairwell Carollers will sing Christmas Carols at St. François d'Assise church, in Hintonburg at 14:00.
[#]Ottawa #Ontario
[#]concert
[#]liveMusic
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Banana raisin muffins. Recipe for 12 muffins in 8 cups.
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@Jnargus
A photo of the appliance label, with model number etc.
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Portable air conditioner for sale to Ottawa area person (#Ottawa #Ontario). You pick up.
Please see pictures in thread for details.
This air conditioner is 14,000 BTU, for cooling a good-sized room, prev owner got a different air conditioner.
It vents via air duct to window. See pictures in thread.
Respond to this message (@ me and jnargus) and we can make arrangements for pickup.
[#]ForSale
@bjb
@Jnargus
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About 4 weekends ago, I missed the third-last step going down the stairs, fell and hurt my ankle. While the ankle has improved over the last month, I finally feel today that I can start doing ankle strengthening exercises without doing damage ... I wonder what exercises would be appropriate? My knee on that leg is starting to be strained ... gotta be careful. Contemplating a visit to a physiotherapist.
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In case anyone else needs to do something similar ... I did call my (non-Bell) ISP and asked them to switch my DSL internet to "dry loop", and made sure that was complete before cancelling the phone line. Otherwise there could have been a week-long internet interruption.
6/5
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So I'm glad I didn't have to give them more info than they already had, and hopefully this is the end of it. But I will have to put notes in my agenda to make sure it is final, and also to ensure no more payments get made after the final one.
It will be hard to tell if they cut off the service, there is already no dial tone. I don't know why. I hardly ever use the land line and had not noticed the lack of dial tone for a couple of weeks at least. Not much point to keep it at that rate.
5/5
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Cancelling Bell phone Attempt 4: called the "direct number" and asked to cancel the service. After back and forth "why?" "I no longer require this service", and he obtained my (non-Bell) cell number, he went ahead and scheduled the cancellation for Friday.
I will have to check with a store on my account balance towards the end of the month and hopefully that's it.
I don't have a "mybell" account and although the lady on the first call wanted me to set one up, I didn't in the end.
4/n
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Cancelling Bell phone Attempt 3: went to a Bell store and told them the person on the phone wanted me to come to the store - she said she could not help me herself but gave me a "direct number" to someone who could cancel it.
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Cancelling Bell phone Attempt 2: called the number for calls from outside my province. They insist on knowing why I'm cancelling. That got put on the back burner while they try to validate my identity. It turns out they cannot validate my identity and I need to bring two pieces of ID to a Bell kiosk. They first asked for SIN and driver's license. After I rejected SIN, they eventually settled for "citizenship number", for which a passport would work. It is in safety deposit box. Argh
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Cancelling Bell phone Attempt 1: called the number for my province. It failed. Maybe because I called from my cell phone and not from the (former) land line. The land line hasn't had a dial tone the last few weeks. Don't know why? DSL internet still works. :shrug:
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I made ginger cookies. The first batch through the oven came out a little overdone, quite crispy, more like gingersnaps. They are good dunked in tea : -)
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After covid they said now we can have gatherings of 8 people without problems ...
Who the heck knows 8 people without problems????
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I don’t think my amateur dramatics teacher is really that qualified. She kept saying that good actors are skilled at ‘improvisation’.
I think she was making it up as she went along.
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@klaatu
Listening to your Gnu World Order podcast.
I always thought the "dpy" in "xdpyinfo" stands for "display": x display info.
Also, xeyes is useful for big, busy screens ... you can get a hint on where the cursor is by looking at the eyes. For those who do use the mouse, but seldom.
Plus it's fun to move the cursor in a figure eight around each eye and make them look left, up, crosseyed, down, right, up, cross-eyed, ... etc.
@gnuWorldOrder
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So, it turns out that not all appliance bulbs are ok for oven use ...
Top one is not for oven, bottom might be ok?
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I managed to root my iPhone 16.
It's now an iPhone 4.
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