Housekeeping: Happy Labo(u)r Day

by Tim Healey

Published: September 3rd, 2021

It’s Labo(u)r Day on both sides of the border on Monday, so us hard-working bloggers/writers/editors are taking it easy peasy until Tuesday.

It’s fitting that the holiday is the same day on both sides of the border since I just watched Super Troopers 2 the other day (somehow, that wasn’t even the first time I’d seen it). The movie is just one long riff on American/Canadian relations, complete with jokes that were worn out when John Candy made Canadian Bacon. Yet it’s all in fun — Americans and Canadians have plenty in common, after all. Anyway, this whole paragraph has been a tortured way of saying that as the movie shows, the two countries have more common ground than we realize. Including Labor — or Labour — Day.

Although it has been a long time since a Canadian NHL team lifted the Cup, eh? Sore-y aboot that one.

Anyway, we’re shutting ‘er down, more or less, until Tuesday. Take it easy, don’t drink and drive, mask up against the coronavirus when indoors around strangers, get vaccinated, and stay healthy and safe.

We’ll see you next week.

[Image: Lukas Gojda/Shutterstock.com]

#Holidays #Housekeeping #LaborDay #LabourDay

Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Ajla on Sep 03, 2021

Enjoy the weekend. You guys have an IS500 review for me next Friday?

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- Tim Healey on Sep 03, 2021
  
  Nothing planned. If there was a recent first drive, we didn't make the cut for that one.
  
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- Tim Healey on Sep 03, 2021
  
  That said, we do have two other first drives in the queue for next week.
  
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- Slavuta on Sep 04, 2021
  
  @Tim Healey "mask up against the coronavirus when indoors around strangers, get vaccinated" thanks Dr. Tim
  
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- ToolGuy on Sep 04, 2021
  
  @slavuta Hey slavuta, Thought of you earlier this week as I was mowing my lawn and listening to this episode of the "Well There's Your Problem" podcast (Episode 68 - The Nedelin Catastrophe): https://youtu.be/kzmNYdzLUCU (Very NSFW - Language Advisory, Indifference to Loss of Human Life, Questionable Humor, General Offensiveness, and more) Interestingly, hosted by actual Socialists. [Never miss the "Safety Third" segment of each episode.] I listened to Episode 75 - The Space Shuttle out of sequence. (Each one does offer some actual insights into each country.)
  
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- Slavuta on Sep 06, 2021
  
  Toolguy, cool. Just finished Nedelin, #68. This is like a documentary with a satiric narrative. Actually, today Russians themselves are laughing how they did things early in their space program. The guy during first space walk nearly walked there forever. But simple tricks did the job of returning to the ship. And what do you think - he was always laughing while talking about that. Several inaccuracies in #68. Biggest - Cuban missile crisis wasn't derivative of needing a single stage rocket. It was a planned operation code name Anadyr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr This is how Khrushchev planned to force US to remove missiles from Turkey. Something you might not know but touches this theme: in the early 1990s US paid for the Russian space program and this ensured its survival. For this, Russia passed to US its experience with the long-term space flights and related technology, training, etc. And this led to creation of ISS.
  
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Sgeffe on Sep 03, 2021

We’ll remember to tip our servers! Hopefully the disks are SSD, and therefore won’t crash!

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- Theflyersfan on Sep 04, 2021
  
  @sgeffe - it's 6:11AM EDT Saturday morning and I'm in a server room doing emergency repairs and testing. Crash is a bad word!!! :-) Might have to spend the weekend catching up on sleep except to wake up for a trip to the grill out back.
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Sep 04, 2021
  
  Now you have to tip servers? When that happened? I thought the whole idea was to get rid of humans with their pesky problems. Imagine using server farm - that is lot of tips!
  
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- Sgeffe on Sep 09, 2021
  
  @theflyersfan Ouch! Didn’t see this until now — you have my sympathies! Hopefully you got caught up in the Zzzzzzzs department!
  
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