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Perhaps a motion sensor light would work well. Everybody's cottage in Canada has one.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/3/HouseHome/Lighting/OutdoorSecurityLighting.jsp

Use these: professional hearing protection. $32. Cover your ear buds with them and you can listen to music at low volume as well as block out most noise. I've been doing this for years and it works great. The only drawback is it isn't very stylish, but for the price and performance, who cares.

I own this: http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/8/KitchenBath/2/Appliances/DeepFryers/PRD~0431679P/T-Fal%252BEZ%252BClean%252BPro%252BDeep%252BFryer.jsp?locale=en and it has a magnetic power connector... I don't know about 'bi-directional' - never checked.

Goo Gone works amazingly well, on even the most ridiculously adhesive residue I've encountered... and it's cheap.

Not all customer loyalty programs are privacy sinkholes.
I wonder how much effort it would take to anonomize (or at least skew) the information that gets encoded into these on-line coupons?

You can still do it if you want, it's just aesthetically arguable to have a huge box (as opposed to this or this), protruding of the wall with plugs all around, so I'm not sure that's the point.

It's huge size is certainly not an asset. Just browse other comments for examples, especially how it becomes an unwanted volume for laptop power bricks.

The only pro might be the extra security. I won't argue that, but I can argue if all that security really pays for the inconveniences or if it's just redundant.

You can still do it if you want, it's just aesthetically arguable to have a huge box (as opposed to this or this), protruding of the wall with plugs all around, so I'm not sure that's the point.

It's huge size is certainly not an asset. Just browse other comments for examples, especially how it becomes an unwanted volume for laptop power bricks.

The only pro might be the extra security. I won't argue that, but I can argue if all that security really pays for the inconveniences or if it's just redundant.

Har har har... burning a Canadian Tire...

For people not from Canada: http://www.canadiantire.ca/

Canadian Tire has a 'solar powered shed light. It is sold for $29.99.

Solar Powered Shed Light

I can't imagine spending too much time fiddling with equations without first plunking $30 to see if this junk will do the trick...

Dawson

You better not be impugning the dignity of our REAL currency.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/assortments/product_det ail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443256538

The only way to receive discounts without paying for some sort of membership these days is agree to loose some of your privacy.

The only way?

Nope

Solar battery chargers:
Are available at Canadian Tire

We'll lend you ours if you want to see what English actually looks like.

If somebody wants to know what English actually looks like, they'll have to try an English dictionary, wherein the word for the round rubber things on automobile wheels is spelled "tyre" rather than "tire".

But, still, the language you speak up there is closer to English than is the language we speak down here, at least in the way it's spelled^Wspelt....

Yes, remote starters exist. They're used by people to warm up or air condition their car before they get in it.

But you'd only be able to download cover songs sung by Sandy McTire...

Canadian Tire doesn't sell 2x4s but they do sell other building supplies and tools apart from car stuff.
Go here and enter SOLAR as the keyword. (enter postal code: K1J 1J8)

I found this:

45W Cottage Solar Panel Kit
Special Offer
Product# 11-1588-0
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Price $499.99
Availability
In Store Online

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Harness the sun's power to run small appliances (both AC and DC) such as TVs, lights, computers and to recharge your 12V DC batteries in your RV, boat or cottage. The 45-watt Cottage Solar Panel Kit is completely weather-resistant and works under all light conditions.

* Ideal for charging deep-cycle batteries and running small appliances
* ICP solar panels are completely weatherproof and can withstand 1/2" hailstones, up to 80C (176F) heat and can operate under 3" of snow (on sunny days)
* Works under all light conditions
* Kit includes three 15W solar panels
* Can run both AC and DC appliances
* Comes complete with 7A charge controller, ultra-bright fluorescent light and 140W DC to AC power inverter
* Includes 12V socket with 10' (3m) of wire, PVC frame, mounting hardware and battery clamps
* Manufacturer's limited 5-year warranty on power output
* Model No. 10058

Now that women have this, combined with a device to open jars, we men are officially obsolete.

Yeah, we've all heard the "made on the same assembly line yada yada" argument, and indeed that may be perfectly valid in a number cases

I will now share an amusing, yet amazingly on-topic, anecdote:

Canadian Tire, a Canadian institution going back nearly 100 years, sells (surprise!) auto parts (as well as many, many other things), such as regular-maintenance items (like fluids, air filters, etc) under their house-brand Motomaster name.

The Service Manager for the local Honda dealership told me that once they opened a carton of Honda air filters (labelled as genuine Honda parts), shipped to them from the Honda Canada parts warehouse in Toronto, and inside that carton, the individual air filter boxes had Motomaster all over them, including Canadian Tire graphics and part numbers. The filters, when compared with a Honda-boxed filter for the same model of vehicle that they already had in stock, were identical.

So apparently this filter manufacturer fscked up and put the wrong boxes in the wrong carton; obviously this "made on the same assembly line" yada yada does hold true sometimes after all... :)

Since the parent is related to Canada, I'll post this question that came to mind reading this thread ... I live in Canada, and there are laws here regarding overtime. Both about being able to choose working it, and minimum overtime wages. Is there no such laws in the States? Like, can a company tether you to their desk with little or no compensation other than your normal rate?

Hell, I get overtime working at my job, and it's just a hair above minimum wage.

Canadian Tire is a hardware, lawn-and-garden, and automotive parts chain. They issue "Canadian Tire money" along with your purchase; it's a kind of a bonus that you can spend on your next purchase at Canadian Tire.

They have been doing this for years and years, so everyone is familiar with Canadian Tire money now.

No way in hell they're sneaking past security with a motherfucking semi truck!

Recently two men walked out of a certain store near where I live with a canoe. Yes, a real, full-size canoe. The employees even helped them with the doors and whatnot.

They only got busted when they got greedy and went back for some paddles. (Talk about being up the creek without one, huh?)

So, don't be thinking a semi will stop an intruder. In a way, it's precisely that thought going through your security guard's head that will make him think the semi is legit...

So you can imagine what success we might have at the local Canadian Tire and with $80000 in CT money

So you can imagine what success we might have at the local Canadian Tire and with $80000 in CT money

Yeah! They're really great, you buy them on the big spike in a Markham computer store, and they come pre-scratched!

If Canada didn't have the blank media tax, the $1 blank CDs might have recognizable brand names and might not be pre-scratched.

If I lived in Baffin Island, that would probably work. As it is, I have some novel CPU cooling systems of my own. My many American friends love to hop across the border and come up to Toronto to see my latest creation.

As soon as I get the Quickcam to work under FreeBSD, I'll invite Slashdot to the party, too.

Re: dumb Americans. No, Americans are not, as a whole, stupid. The United States wouldn't be the world's one remaining superpower if Americans were. Though, it's nice to know that I've got friends who, in Niagara Falls, NY, paid at Denny's using Canadian Tire Money.

(Canadian Tire is a big and very poor quality department store that uses very official-looking paper "money" as an incentive to come back. The "currency" bears the name "Canadian" and has lots of cool pictures of snowtires and a stereotype Canadian dressed up against the winter.)