{"id":94095,"date":"2016-08-15T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=94095"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:05:30","slug":"20160815-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160815-01\/?p=94095","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned from my recent trip to Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back <a HREF=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/\">from Vancouver<\/a>, and boy are my arms tired! No wait, that&#8217;s not how the joke goes. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some things I learned from my trip: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    Do not pay the cashier with pennies.     Canada phased out the penny in 2013.     I missed the memo. \n<li>    Do not pay the cashier in Hong Kong dollars, either.     There was no memo on this, on the grounds that it&#8217;s totally obvious. \n<li>    It appears to be inconsistent whether Canada uses     one-based floor numbering (United States style)     or zero-based floor numbering (European style).     One building uses the United States style,     where &#8220;Floor 1&#8221; is the ground floor;     another uses zero-based, where &#8220;Floor 1&#8221;     is the first floor above the ground floor.     But     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/no-more-skipping-4-13-14-24-in-vancouver-floor-numbers\">    at least the floors are numbered consecutively<\/a>.     Not like in New York City, where floor numbers     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/08\/garden\/for-tower-residents-a-new-math.html?pagewanted=all\">    are not required to follow any particular rule<\/a>. \n<li>    I once again encountered the     blinking green traffic light.     I always forget what it means and have to go look it up.     It means &#8220;You have the right of way, but be aware that     cross-traffic has a stop sign rather than a stop light,     so they may enter the intersection when safe.&#8221; \n<li>    The United States calls it a &#8220;parking garage&#8221;     and in England it&#8217;s a &#8220;multi-storey car park&#8221;,     both rather unexciting functional descriptions of a parking structure.     But Canadians have a dedicated word for the concept: &#8220;parkade&#8221;.     The word is so cute,     and it reminds me of     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IVWQYeiB6JI&amp;t=21s\">    this commercial<\/a>. <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-94095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s not butter.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}