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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 04/10/2026

BC Conservatives won't disavow their openly homophobic candidate? That's everything you need to know. #bcpoli

Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 28/09/2026

Tomato, zucchini, and squash haul have been crap this year, but the peppers aren't doing bad. I still have about this many more on the plant. These will be perfect for fajitas tonight.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 28/09/2026

I don't know who's running Oakridge Mall but... A broken escalator is stairs. They are stairs. For random strangers, we all looked at each other confused, and just moved the barrier.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 27/09/2026

Going local with my hot sauce addiction. This shit is good.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 21/09/2026

But the sad part, now we'll never get to make all these jokes...

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 20/09/2026

This is why people hate developers, they put in all the wired smoke detectors but took 3 days to put batteries in them. So you could hear these continual chirps from two blocks away the entire time. Even now there's at least one missing a battery because I can hear the chirp a block away every 20s.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 14/09/2026

A day early because Monday is busy with work/school and kid activities, but La Mezcaleria on The Drive was freaking delicious.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 14/09/2026

Birthday presents from the children.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 13/09/2026

Figured it out, you can only use the east side. Hi @stickers66.bsky.social.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 31/08/2026

After recent events, this Canada made product I bought at Safeway seems to be trying to skirt our own labeling regulations. Scan for cooking instructions, PDF is in English only, no French. Displeased. Let's see if I'm lazy or email the proper federal authorities.

Canadian labeling skirting our own regulations

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 29/08/2026

It's been too long since I've had Ethiopian. That was this month in exposing the children to world cuisines. It's been at least 14 years since I've been to Gojo.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 17/08/2026

I bought a new Schlage lock, it was DOA, gears are stripped or something, I hear the motor grinding but nothing moves. But that customer service and warranty experience was probably one of the best I've ever had, quick, professional, empathetic. I was feeling bitter towards them but now I feel okay.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 15/08/2026

Just opening the box and looking through everything I need to...put on ebay? I don't know. It's a big box. And not the only one.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 12/08/2026

More of the stuff for my father I now need to clean out. Anyone want a morganite carbon shunk? These are what goes into a trolley bus shoe (old Brill trolleys) that wears down as it's going around town. We used to have a few hundred in the basement, fortunately he got rid of those.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 19/07/2026

This is where I am rather than watching the game.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 19/07/2026

Decent haul from the cucumber plants tonight.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 13/07/2026

I think visitors might end up riding back and forth a few times waiting to arrive at that station...one important detail missing.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 12/07/2026

Finally ditching my old 1990 hockey cards. I just got $10 for this one. And my Gretzky and Lemieux are apparently absolutely perfect, if I submit them for grading they're over $100 each. Cool, better than I thought I would get.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 11/07/2026

Guilt and Co, one of the best live music venues in the city. I love this place.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 06/07/2026

I came back from getting coffee and entered my office to find this... 🤣 The fun of working in office again.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 25/06/2026

Ha-ha! Xiao smart ir mate works controlling the receiver. Squeeze client on Pi to Apple USB DAC, all running on DietPi and powered by a PoE splitter. Music Assistant streaming things. Living room/kitchen/patio ceiling speaker remote control achieved, finally. Great success!

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 19/06/2026

I notice it doesn't say the money is pledged to help *fight* climate change. With all his rockets and giant yachts, I think he's already pledged at least 10 billion towards climate change...

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 14/06/2026

Saturday night breadboarding, as one does.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 11/06/2026

Slow progress with the new gadget, still a little buggy.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 07/06/2026

Trying to get my Pi to use an IR diode to control the power on my receiver. I'm still not sure if the led isn't bright enough or the codes are wrong, it does look dimmer than the remote when looking through my phone. I'm going to try wiring it to a 3.5" jack in the back, direct signal to it.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 05/06/2026

Tomorrow is a colleague's last day, today was my last meeting with him because I'm off tomorrow. So I had to dress up for the occasion. I'll need to go visit the Canadian London one of these days.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 02/06/2026

These came out beautifully, maybe a little salty, but so delicious. I love the crusting that I achieved. Sometimes I'm really good at rubbing meat.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 30/05/2026

At The Arts Club Theater for a children's festival show, I can't remember the last time I was at the Arts Club.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 30/05/2026

Making progress with my Home Assistant voice controls, I can communicate with it via Signal until I get some some hardware for voice. Deepseek V4 Flash for the model. I still need to annotate more devices, and set up some skills.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 30/05/2026

This was definitely an interesting find at Parthenon Market. I like them.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 25/05/2026

The elder child is becoming very astute at riding around town.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 24/05/2026

Things I know I should get rid of, but I just can't, baby's first library card. Fine it's going in the garbage.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 24/05/2026

Cleaning up the basement, some of the stuff I don't know what to do with. Likely just going in the trash. I'm going to be very more selective about souvenirs in the future.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 17/05/2026

Nice day for a baseball game, only a 10 minute walk. And The Canadians just hit a home run.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 17/05/2026

This is going to be a good summer, bbq setup is coming together, got the built in patio speakers finally powered to blast the tunes, Taiwanese whiskey, this is good.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 16/05/2026

I assume this new utter waste of money down by BC Place is because of FIFA.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 10/05/2026

Child's first civic engagement. Attending the tall buildings workshop, she wanted to make her opinions known. Good for her.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 03/05/2026

More downsizing by my parents. The A&W one is an original 1960s one. Though knowing my follower the trolley bus one more likely catches people's attention. If we ever have our house warming you may get to drink out of a Flyer E901 mug.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 03/05/2026

Vancouver Parks Board finally solved the issue of the water fountain that was broken for 3+ years at Douglas Park, they just removed it. 🤦‍♂️

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 20/04/2026

Fucker, "I'm important, I'm going to park in the bike rack." Now I can't lock my bike up. I had to make sure that license plate was niiiice and visible. #vancouver

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 13/04/2026

I don't even know what that means in this context. But fuck, Eby isn't helping right now. This pandering to people who will never vote for him will never work, the left needs to stop doing it.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 12/04/2026

We forgot something yesterday, why drive all the way back down there.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 12/04/2026

I'm really enjoying borrowing my wife's Tern. A good Sunday morning. And I'm also feeling a lot more relaxed about locking it, sitting here staring straight at it, front wheel locked, nowhere anyone could take it quickly, this feels safe.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 05/04/2026

And, acquired. From some dude just around the corner from John and Helen.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 02/04/2026

This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off with the City of Vancouver. I understand the goal trying to do, make a nice protected bike lane on the approach to King Ed. But it means the bus has no way to jump the traffic, it's going to get delayed, slowing service, making it less attractive.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 29/03/2026

Collection is growing faster than I'm drinking it.

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 28/03/2026

What the hell, Canada? Why can't we drop our bags at the main station like everyone else?

In-town bag check-in suspended for Canada

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 26/03/2026

Meanwhile we're at the National Taiwan Science Education Centre looking at rocks. (the albatross was stuffed and life sized)

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Matthew Laird @matthewlaird.ca · 24/03/2026

I had never heard of this Taiwanese whiskey but apparently it is award-winning. I'm bringing home a bottle. But wow they're confident in themselves, it's pricey.

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