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  • #1

    Eastward Ho

    Again!

    I've accepted a position starting in September in downtown Toronto with a "small" (100-person) software consulting company. Pretty great place to work, it's near the waterfront in the core of downtown Toronto on the top floor of a loft-style highrise.

    This leads to several devastating problems, however:
    - I will have to pay provincial sales tax
    - Most people are Leafs fans
    - I will have to buy a Slingbox to leave back home in Calgary so I can still get the Sportsnet West feeds that show most Flames games

    On the plus side:
    + Great salary & benefits
    + Great company (they are, also, "Microsoft whores" being "Gold Partners")
    + Looking at some great apartments in downtown Toronto, lots of things to do
    + Rogers has 32 high definition channels, including some NHL Centre Ice
    + Great room for advancement in the company
    + Variety in tasks performed
    + Lots of opportunities to take "business trips" to New York, Boston, and Seattle
    + Company is full of young people, the oldest employee of the 50 people in Toronto is in his early 30s (and is a co-founder).
    + I'll start my first "real" job with my very own underlings!
    + Close proximity to Waterloo, where the boyfriend is attending university

    Bring it on, muthas!
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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    Explain to me the whole slingbox thing.
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    • #3
      So when are you guys getting married?
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #4
        I have 2 euros and 10 cents in my pockets until the end of August and I hate you so much GRRRRRRRR
        I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by chegitz guevara
          So when are you guys getting married?
          When he's out of school.
          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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          • #6
            Originally posted by OzzyKP
            Explain to me the whole slingbox thing.
            You buy a Slingbox, hook it up to a cable jack and ethernet cable connected to a router...then you can log into it from anywhere on the internet and change the channels, etc. You watch your "local" TV from anywhere that has a 'net connection.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #7
              Isn't the fact it's in Toronto a minus?
              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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              • #8
                It's both.

                While it's an overly crowded city, it has a fabulous gay district.
                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                • #9
                  What kind of holiday entitlement do you get in Canada? Is it as lousy as your US counterparts or more comparable to the Europeans?
                  Speaking of Erith:

                  "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                  • #10
                    Holiday entitlement is roughly in between. More than what an American, less than a European. Like a lot of Canadian, err....entitlements That's been my, oh, experience of it anyway.

                    And Toronto, my dear city and my first time falling in love with a place, is certainly not overcrowded. Then again, I've gotten used to London. The Eaton's Centre on a Saturday, now that's overcrowded but only because half of southern Ontario is there.

                    Oh, and the city's subway system is a joke.
                    Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                    -Richard Dawkins

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Asher

                      When he's out of school.
                      Cool
                      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Asher
                        it has a fabulous gay district.
                        It's impeccably decorated or are all the buildings pink?
                        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                        • #13
                          yes
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #14
                            I thought Starchild was the only Poly manho in TO?
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                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #15
                              Re: Eastward Ho

                              Originally posted by Asher
                              + Company is full of young people,
                              Sorry to hear that.

                              I don't know what I am - Pekka

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