• Spring 2024 meetup in Calgary - date Saturday, April 20/2024. discussion Please RSVP Here to confirm and get your invitation and the location details. RSVP NOW so organizers can plan to get sufficient food etc. It's Tomorrow Saturday! you can still RSVP until I stop checking my phone tomorrow More info and agenda
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  • Spring meet up in Ontario, April 6/2024. NEW LOCATION See Post #31 Discussion AND THE NEW LOCATION

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  1. whydontu

    Time for some fun

    James Branch Cabell
  2. whydontu

    Greetings from Victoria BC

    Welcome from Vancouver!
  3. whydontu

    Time for some fun

    I’ll try to be apolitical and only present a few examples of the bad old days Paying $800 a month on your 19% mortgage and seeing the principal drop by $50 a month. Drinking & driving was OK Pot wasn’t, and a bit of weed could end you in jail unless you had really good connections Nuns at...
  4. whydontu

    Time for some fun

    Can we post stuff that existed in our youth that are now gone, that were bad or worse?
  5. whydontu

    Help Identifying a Mechanism

    Oops. I searched from your picture, not from the original. One day I'l learn to read the entire thread. Back to Google I go.
  6. whydontu

    Time for some fun

    Cars with an engine with five wires. Ground, 12 volt, starter solenoid, two wires to the ignition coil. No computer, no sensors. Points and condensers.
  7. whydontu

    Time for some fun

    My desk had a dial telephone, a coffee cup, an ashtray, and a price book. No calculator. Could do most discounts in my head, extend and total an invoice, add tax. 40% trade discount was easy, 37% cash discount took a bit of time. Ex-SWMBO worked for a log scaling company. Guys would run a...
  8. whydontu

    Vancouver Island Meet Up

    I lived in Port Alberni from ‘69 to ‘72, am I an honorary Islander?
  9. whydontu

    10 little things we hate about the internet.

    Sigh. Google image search, using the photo of the patent plate.
  10. whydontu

    10 little things we hate about the internet.

    Try Duck Duck Go browser. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/how-duckduckgo-makes-money/
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