Yesterday I came across the game “Mansion Impossible” (http://3form.net/mansion_impossible/) which hass a very simple premise: buy houses you can afford, sell them at a higher price, use that profit to buy and sell increasingly expensive houses for increasingly bigger profits until you can afford to buy the mansion. So what’s so great about this game? [...]
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If you’re in Dauphin, Manitoba, and you ordered an HDTV set-top box from Westman Cable TV, you might have received an Atlas M1055 remote and a Motorola DCT3416-I set top box. If you did, and if your remote isn’t working entirely as expected, try entering the remote code 1376 for remote button CBL. Here are [...]
We are in the house. It’s still unfinished, but the work is coming along, and we’re trying to live here for one night. We can’t shower and we can’t cook, but we can sleep, watch TV and be online. In fact, this is the first communication from the new house, and at pretty high speeds, [...]
One of the primary factors behind our move was the environment — both the environment that we all share, and the environment within our living quarters. When we began the plans for our home renovation we wanted to incorporate sustainable, renewable materials so as not to burden the environment non-toxic/allergenic substances for air quality and [...]
I’m so used to giving people the 10-second-elevator-talk answer to this question, I’ll see whether I can actually remember the details accurately! It was winter, somewhere between 2003 – 2004. My math tutoring business was off to a strong start, we were living in Bavyiew Mews (still one of my favourite places we’ve lived — [...]
It’s been more than a little validating that twice in two days I’ve read Treehugger stories that have made me say, “Yes, that’s why we moved to Dauphin!” One of which was the announcement of a tool to calculate the Walk Score of an address. The second of which was a review of the book [...]
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