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Hey guys, what bike shop in Vancouver has a good selection of parts to build up a fixie bike?

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Josimar did you try the leopard cache cleaner utility? I think I got it off the
apple site. I find if I don't do a shut down every couple weeks it gets a little
slow, but once I restart it's back to good.

I'm still on Tiger, but I got the equivalent cleaner and it seems to be running a bit more efficiently. I've always been in the habit of shutting down while I sleep to consume less energy, but I'm wondering if there are any benefits to doing it less often?

I've had my macbook pro for 4 years now. I've ran windows from bootcamp and also virtualized it using parallels. I've run the latest version of Solidworks for some school stuff every year and it handled it well for my not too extensive uses (thats why I needed windows). On the OSX side of things, I mostly do photo editing and its been great for that. Overall, it has worked well, but like all computers they have faults.

Problems: It still crashes, but much much less than my previous experience with PCs. At the start of the 4th year, the display died and cost $250 to get repaired. It was cheaper than the cost of AppleCare and it wouldn't have even been covered because it would have been a few weeks outside of that warranty. Now its starting to feel a little slow while multi-tasking. Its been the best computer investment I have made so far. I plan to get a new one before I start school again. I think this one will be a good backup computer and will likely still function for a few more years, but its getting to be not so useful for demanding software.

The aluminum body really makes the MBPs feel very solid.

My PC laptop died completely at the 1 year mark. However, I know people that had really good experiences with Toshibas.

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

Looks good!

What kind of lens? That is some interesting distortion.

He just gave up because he's old. He's probably bitter because he can't have sex anymore.

But seriously, I think its pretty obvious that we cannot control such a pervasive and ill understood problem. However, that does not mean that we cannot try to change our ways and allow the planet to try and reach some kind of balance. Sadly, things will probably get much worse before any collective effort is possible and even then we may be completely screwed.

French presses make good coffee and are cheap, but that may not be what you're in the market for.

Thats good that there is a grocery store nearby.

Anyone stayed or know anyone who has stayed at Green College residence or St. Johns College residence? They seem like a really good setup.

What will you study?

I got into the architecture program. Its going to be a long haul. 3.5 years since I am coming from a non-architecture background (mech. engineering).

If one I would say try to get on campus housing, it is fairly reasonable and lots of the places include all furniture… not great furniture, but if its only a year you'll be happy to not have to deal with moving your stuff.

If you want off campus there are usually some nice basement suites in the Point Grey/Dunbar area that rich people rent out to students for reasonable.

Kitsilano is full of students and the closest community to UBC.

Meeting more people makes on campus housing tempting, but I dont know if I can go back to doing the residence thing.

you're in luck. i happen to have shared acommodation available that's maybe a 20min bike to ubc, at 14th and mcdonald. rent is $575, includes everything and is available pretty much right now. it's a 3 bedroom basement suite shared with two females at the moment. lemme know if you're interested.

The distance sounds great because I love biking to school. Although I'm not sure what it would be like during such a wet winter. Please send me a PM with some more info. Photos would help. I like to cook, does the basement have a full kitchen? Are there windows? Are the girls bearable? What are the rough dimensions of the room I'd be renting? Would there be somewhere safe I could stow my commuter and potentially Shore bike? One issue might be that I don't think I'll move out there until the end of July or start of August, unless I can find a summer job.

Thanks for the advice. More is appreciated!

Hey,

I've been accepted for a Masters program at UBC and am hoping to get some info on the rental market.

What can I expect to pay to rent a room in a decent place that is within a reasonable distance to commute by bus (less than 30mins)?

Any neighbourhoods that are more likely to have good finds?

Good websites to search for housing?

Anyone know of someone looking to rent to students or wants to fill another room?

If I wait until the end of July or August to find a place to start in September, will most of the good places be taken?

Any good/bad experiences with renting near UBC would be good to hear./ Any advice?

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