[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow, Aug 13 at 7:30pm
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I plan to make it around the end of the lake and to roll into town in plenty of time to make the meeting, possibly any dinner that's planned if I learn of it in time. I might even be able to keep my eyes open long enough for the pub afterwards. But, I have a logistical question or two that I hope are simple enough ... On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:29:18AM -0400, hi--- via talk wrote:
## Location
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University
I see the building occupies the entire block. Is the entrance we use in fact on the Church St side of the building?
## Schedule
* 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk@gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner.
I don't know the area well enough to suggest anything but maybe this reminder is enough to kick off some discussion?
* 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting, a group of GTALUGers move to The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising.
Somewhat off topic, but does the stretch of College St just west of Spadina still have several computer shops? Call me old fashioned or just a curmudgeon, but I try to get not everything online from Amazon et al and still appreciate the opportunity to window shop, if nothing else. Looking forward to seeing folks at the Lightning Talks, -- D. Joe
| From: D. Joe via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I plan to make it around the end of the lake and to roll into town in | plenty of time to make the meeting, possibly any dinner that's planned | if I learn of it in time. Great! | > George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre | > 245 Church Street, Room 203 | > Ryerson University | > | > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> | | I see the building occupies the entire block. Is the entrance we use in | fact on the Church St side of the building? Yes. There is an entrance in the middle of the Church Street side and one at the north-west corner of the building. | > ## Schedule | > | > * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk@gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. | | I don't know the area well enough to suggest anything but maybe this | reminder is enough to kick off some discussion? People have stopped bothering to discuss (too bad). Some people go to Kabul Express (North side of Dundas, just east of Church. <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner#kabul_express> | > * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. | > * 9:00 pm - After each meeting, a group of GTALUGers move to The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising. | | Somewhat off topic, but does the stretch of College St just west of | Spadina still have several computer shops? Call me old fashioned or just | a curmudgeon, but I try to get not everything online from Amazon et al | and still appreciate the opportunity to window shop, if nothing else. There are a few. Not as many as there used to be. I don't shop there very often. Canada Computers is there, twice (but you have closer ones). Tech Depot (for off-lease stuff and other fascinating junk). The U of T Bookstore has a not-so-great computer store within it. The book store is on the North West corner of St. George and College. There are surely others but I'm not up to date on them.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 09:20:48PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| I see the building occupies the entire block. Is the entrance we use in | fact on the Church St side of the building?
Yes. There is an entrance in the middle of the Church Street side and one at the north-west corner of the building.
OK, thanks. I'm sure it's perfectly simple but I didn't want to leave it to chance.
People have stopped bothering to discuss (too bad). Some people go to Kabul Express (North side of Dundas, just east of Church.
Good to know, thanks.
| Somewhat off topic, but does the stretch of College St just west of | Spadina still have several computer shops?
There are a few. Not as many as there used to be. I don't shop there very often.
More often than me, I'd bet :-)
Canada Computers is there, twice (but you have closer ones).
That's a good point. Maybe something to incorporate into a fuel or lunch stop along the way.
Tech Depot (for off-lease stuff and other fascinating junk).
Now that's what I'm talking about!
The U of T Bookstore has a not-so-great computer store within it. The book store is on the North West corner of St. George and College. There are surely others but I'm not up to date on them.
I appreciate the pointers all the same. I haven't been in the GTA since FSOSS a few years ago and even then didn't make it downtown. (The bookstore mention is a bonus, especially since that is also a traveling retail therapy weakness but it seemed too off topic to ask after.) -- D. Joe
On 2019-08-12 9:20 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
People have stopped bothering to discuss (too bad). Some people go to Kabul Express (North side of Dundas, just east of Church.
I'll likely be at Kabul Express. There aren't that many places to eat that stick around in that neighbourhood.
There are a few. Not as many as there used to be. I don't shop there very often. Canada Computers is there, twice (but you have closer ones). Tech Depot (for off-lease stuff and other fascinating junk).
TechSource, maybe? Tech Depot's in Woodbridge. Either way, TechSource is gone too (demolition) from College. Apart from Canada Computers, there are a couple of low-ish end repair places, but nothing worth going out of your way for … … unless you need electronic components, that is. Creatron is by the Market, and the basement of Home Hardware (the one that used to be a Factory Direct and had all of the surplus O'Reilly books) have good selections. I was just in that location yesterday. cheers, Stewart
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | > Tech Depot (for off-lease stuff and other fascinating junk). | | TechSource, maybe? Sure. They used to be one company but they had a schism. There's still one in a strip mall on the north side of Sheppard, west of Allen Rd. | Tech Depot's in Woodbridge. Either way, TechSource is | gone too (demolition) from College. Wow. I hadn't noticed. I don't remember when I last went, but I thought it was just a few months ago. | Apart from Canada Computers, there | are a couple of low-ish end repair places, but nothing worth going out | of your way for … Sad. But use it or lose it: I hadn't shopped in the area for a long time. Or even in the Markham / Richmond Hill nexus. Sometimes the Microsoft Store has good deals and there's one in the Eaton Centre, near the GTALUG meeting. But it is very different from an old-style computer store. Canada Computer started out as an old-style store and retains some of that feeling.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 8:51 PM D. Joe via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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Somewhat off topic, but does the stretch of College St just west of Spadina still have several computer shops? Call me old fashioned or just a curmudgeon, but I try to get not everything online from Amazon et al and still appreciate the opportunity to window shop, if nothing else.
There are a couple of shops left on College and on Spadina, but they are mostly handling consumer accessories. Canada Computers on College and a place called NT Computer Plus show up on google maps now. I was in the hood last week and I think I saw that one of the other small shops in the first two westward blocks of College was shuttered and one was still open. Phones, sd cards and printer accessories seem to be the bulk of the goods. You could probably find what you need as a replacement part, but it won't be the same rich browsing experience as 10 or so years ago, with posters in the windows and local price wars. :-(
Looking forward to seeing folks at the Lightning Talks,
-- D. Joe
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