The "Quick-Question" Thread- please see guidelines in 1st post

[Rjcsjc62]

Originally Posted by meanmachine13

Anyo have any tips for removing tree sap off my windshield and hood of my car? I have bought various sap removal products from Canadian tire and none of them have had any success.

Try Peanut Butter.

I have no idea if it works on cars, but if you get tree sap on your hands, it is easiest removed with peanut butter.

[Rjcsjc62]

My wife and I were discussing this recently...

Who came up with the dirty lyrics for Billy Idol's cover of Mony Mony. Was it Billy Idol himself, or was it some kind of strange cult following where everybody knows what to sing, and its origin is completely organic?

In the days before internet how could every teenager in the 80's from every town and city in north america know exactly what to sing and when if it didnt have a true origin.

Does it go back to the original version of the song?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Total shot in the dark: What font is this?

Originally Posted by Reaper

http://www.identifont.com/

Originally Posted by AC

There's also http://www.whatthefont.com/

Upload the image and have it guess.

Both of those didn't work, plus a few others I found online. The biggest problem is of the ones that supported any punctuation, none of them included quotes.

I ended up opening Word and just mindlessly scrolling through fonts while having a 100 point " highlighted.

Turns out, it is probably Arial Narrow, 80pt.

[Titan]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Both of those didn't work, plus a few others I found online. The biggest problem is of the ones that supported any punctuation, none of them included quotes.

I ended up opening Word and just mindlessly scrolling through fonts while having a 100 point " highlighted.

Turns out, it is probably Arial Narrow, 80pt.

Sometimes I am dissatisfied with my job and life and come to CP to live vicariously through other people's lives and think how cool it would be to haver their jobs. Then i read a post like this and all of a sudden I am okay with me!!

[sun]

Originally Posted by Titan

Sometimes I am dissatisfied with my job and life and come to CP to live vicariously through other people's lives and think how cool it would be to haver their jobs. Then i read a post like this and all of a sudden I am okay with me!!

Could have been worse - the font was Arial when it could have been Zapfino.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Titan

Sometimes I am dissatisfied with my job and life and come to CP to live vicariously through other people's lives and think how cool it would be to haver their jobs. Then i read a post like this and all of a sudden I am okay with me!!

My job is awesome, its the pay that sucks.

The pay sucking is partially why I have to deal with coworkers that sometimes have a little less experience, and come to me with questions like this.

The extreme examples occasionally end up in threads like this!

[J pold]

How come threads don't get rated anymore?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by J pold

How come threads don't get rated anymore?

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=108751

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ghlight=rating

The second link has the post explaining it all from photon:

Originally Posted by photon

To be more specific, I took a look in the database of who was rating which threads, and there was a group of users who would, almost without fail, en masse, give 1 star ratings to every single thread a particular user started.

Of course the thread star rating is supposed to be to identify good threads, not to be used to grief a person a clique doesn't like.

And asking people to behave in a mature fashion usually doesn't work, and having to police thread ratings is beyond stupid, so it was easier just to remove the system entirely.

This is a strong indication that a "no-thanks" system, or a system to rate other posters or a thumbs up/thumbs down system simply could not work, as there's a group of people who would abuse the system for their own fun rather than use it as it was intended.

As usual, a few spoil it for everyone.

[Sliver]

Anybody in the know want to share when 52nd street is going to reopen with the double lanes over the train tracks on the Foothills Industrial Park?

[calgaryrocks]

Their goal is end of september, and it has to be done by the end of march 2013 - if this is the one you mean http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation...g-Project.aspx

[Sliver]

That's the one...thanks dude. Wow if it wrapped up this week that would be awesome.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=108751

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ghlight=rating

The second link has the post explaining it all from photon:

To be fair, the guy who was getting 1-starred would instantly start whining about getting 1-starred, which just made it funnier.

[Komskies]

I'm anxiously awaiting the connection of McIvor Blvd. to 130th Ave. The roads are already in place, but it's still blocked off. Discounting the unpredictable changes in traffic patterns, it could save me 5-10 minutes of commute time to and from work.

[Flame19,289]

Originally Posted by meanmachine13

Anyo have any tips for removing tree sap off my windshield and hood of my car? I have bought various sap removal products from Canadian tire and none of them have had any success.

Originally Posted by Rjcsjc62

Try Peanut Butter.
I have no idea if it works on cars, but if you get tree sap on your hands, it is easiest removed with peanut butter.

I've had good luck with Isopropyl Alcohol wipes that I purchased at a local drugstore.

If you're concerned about your car's paint finish, you could try one on an inconspicuous spot first.

I've had good luck removing both fresh (still sticky) sap, and the dried on stuff.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Funny enough I got one of these on Friday.

I also got one in the past, I emailed the address they give you if you are disputing the ticket saying I was picking someone up and you can clearly see me in the photo. They emailed back and cancelled the ticket, so I will be doing that again with this one.

Didn't work for me. They said "could not verify that a passenger was being actively loaded or unloaded OR that the vehicle was being moved." "The definition of parked is the same if the vehicle is occupied or not."

Not sure how you are suppose to pick someone up if all sides of a building are pay parking. I guess I have to keep driving around the building, wasting gas and making traffic worse.

[Coach]

Followed by the awesome James Bond-esque stunt your friend has to pull off to make the leap into a moving vehical.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Didn't work for me. They said "could not verify that a passenger was being actively loaded or unloaded OR that the vehicle was being moved." "The definition of parked is the same if the vehicle is occupied or not."

Not sure how you are suppose to pick someone up if all sides of a building are pay parking. I guess I have to keep driving around the building, wasting gas and making traffic worse.

That's weird, I did the request for administrative review and said I received a ticket for my car being “parked” outside the Sunlife building on 3rd Avenue, between Center St & 1st Street SW. As my girlfriend works in SunLife Plaza and I carpool with her, I’m not sure where else I’m supposed to pick her up. There is no loading zone around the building on 3rd Avenue.
If you look at the picture, I am in the car waiting for her.

They scrapped the ticket.

[morgin]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Didn't work for me. They said "could not verify that a passenger was being actively loaded or unloaded OR that the vehicle was being moved." "The definition of parked is the same if the vehicle is occupied or not."

Not sure how you are suppose to pick someone up if all sides of a building are pay parking. I guess I have to keep driving around the building, wasting gas and making traffic worse.

"(i) when standing temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers;"

I'd love to see how narrow the City would want to argue this definition. To me, someone walking out of the building to enter the car is actually engaging in loading, vs if they are standing around yapping while the car waits for them. The City is likely going to say unless the person is standing on the sidewalk waiting for the car when it pulls up, the driver isnt engaged in loading until the person arrives. Practically, given it takes a few minutes to exit your car, go to the machine, pop in the minimum amount (while waiting for the machines which apparently have a 386 in them given how long they take to actually let you pay) and then go back to your car, I would argue that if the person you are waiting for can arrive in that time and you can get out of the spot faster, it's a net benefit to the city (even less the 25 cents they would have got from you).

I'd probably fight it on principal that their definition of "actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers" isn't clear and at the very least it should encompass some buffer time for a person to walk to the car. For example, what if the person you are picking up is waiting at the north end of the block where there is a space available and you pull in on the south end where another space is available - they will have to walk to meet you. I think it would be preposterous to take the position that you should be responsible for paying for parking for that minute of time given your passenger isn't quite beside the car (which is just a reality of availability). Their website seems to take the position that you should because you could just pay for it with your cellphone or have a handsfree device to communicate to your passenger where you will be loading from but to me that's a bunch of crud.

[Knalus]

So, I don't want to cook, I am tired of pizza, and want to order in. Any ideas?

[calf]

Originally Posted by Knalus

So, I don't want to cook, I am tired of pizza, and want to order in. Any ideas?

Indian or Chinese?