Western Expresso

[dam_well]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Given Winnipegs climate and the need for energy efficiency could see through wood the windows of the future?

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020...-window-future

Here's a CBC article that goes a bit more in depth. This is really cool.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/scie...lass-1.5902739

[harls]

Richardson Building U/C - 1968

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Maybe even deserves its own thread if the response is good.

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/preservi...pens-1.5319463

[bomberjet]

That's pretty cool. Great idea. A lot of those videos, photos, etc just end up in the trash. Which is quite sad.

[rrskylar]

Wab and the rest of the leaky canoe speNDP crowd getting really anxious with the impending release of the Hydro report, Wab is pulling out all the usual stops like shoot the messenger in his attempts to try and discredit the report which will be damning (pardon the pun)!

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Why are those gawdawful orange sodium street lamps still everywhere in the downtown? Almost everywhere seems to be converted by now. I've hated those lights for over 30 years.

[EndoftheBeginning]

Sure looks like some low-level aerial photography is happening over the city the last few days. Two planes today (and similar flights yesterday).

[1ajs]

weird that also looks like geophysical scanning or training to do that type of flying

[bomberjet]

The City usually gets aerial photography done every couple years. So that is the most likely thing. Aerial can be viewed here: https://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/maps_aerial.stm

2018 is the most recent.

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

The City usually gets aerial photography done every couple years. So that is the most likely thing. Aerial can be viewed here: https://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/maps_aerial.stm

2018 is the most recent.

Is that a crack in the eastern end of the roof of 87 Smith, or just a photo anomally? Looks like a piece of string or wire. I lived there from 1990 to 2004.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

Is that a crack in the eastern end of the roof of 87 Smith, or just a photo anomally? Looks like a piece of string or wire. I lived there from 1990 to 2004.

prolly a sloppy cable run job for somthing on the roof?

[cheswick]

Anyone know why or when they stopped addressing houses by 2’s and switched to addressing them by 4’s for detached and 2’s for attached?

[bomberjet]

Seems to be post ww2. Going by 4 provides more flexibility. As they had to go by half numbers before when splitting lots.

[EndoftheBeginning]

It must have been drive your Italian sports car to Clear Lake day today. A work colleague sent me this from this morning. 4 Ferrari (the plural is Ferraris but that looks weird) and 1 Maserati spotted.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

It must have been drive your Italian sports car to Clear Lake day today. A work colleague sent me this from this morning. 4 Ferrari (the plural is Ferraris but that looks weird) and 1 Maserati spotted.

These guys belong to rally clubs that go on drives like this regularly. I know a group from Regina who hired a helicopter a few years back to scout for radar patrols.

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by Stormer

These guys belong to rally clubs that go on drives like this regularly. I know a group from Regina who hired a helicopter a few years back to scout for radar patrols.

Yet another example of extreme wealth inequality where people with too much money and privilege think they can do whatever the fuck they want.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

Yet another example of extreme wealth inequality where people with too much money and privilege think they can do whatever the fuck they want.

if anything shows we need to build a 100km toll road in each province for people to do stupid things on

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

if anything shows we need to build a 100km toll road in each province for people to do stupid things on

Or how about a track of some sort, that people could… race on?

[cllew]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

Or how about a track of some sort, that people could… race on?

Like Victory Lanes Speedway that is about 10 minutes south of Winnipeg? It's old school dirt oval so they may not want to get their cars dirty though.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

Yet another example of extreme wealth inequality where people with too much money and privilege think they can do whatever the fuck they want.

You mean like running a countries economy into the ground and spending the country into a debt we will never get out of!?