Wayne D's Blog

The TLDR, new stadium opening in 2030, long term fans unhappy with skyrocketing ticket prices and seat licenses to secure their tickets in the new stadium. At the end they make an interesting point that the premium experiences that teams are so interested in creating are much more lucrative for the team than regular bums in seats. Well worth a look. The title kind of gives it away, "How Billionaires broke the NFL's most loyal fans"

MLSE doesn't really care about the Argos and it shows. With half the gates at BMO field closed to prepare the site for the World Cup they did nothing to alleviate the crowding at the the remaining gates. It was business as usual resulting in long lines to get into the games. At the last game of the season where they sold extra tickets there was a long line of fans trying to enter the stadium at game time. Were there any extra staff there to help manage the lines? No. It's unconscionable to charge $7.25 for a bottle of water when half of the stadium is in full sun. The water fountains that are available at BMO field are grossly inadequate for the size of the venue and don't even have water bottle fill capabilities which makes those who do line up to use them wait even longer. At least one of the water fountains also dispenses warm water and has such a weak flow that it's practically unusable. The public address system on the east side of the stadium is unintelligible, wasn't this bad last year but this year you couldn't understand anything the referee or on-field hosts were saying.

6 home games next year, first game at BMO field sometime in August. MLSE has relabelled 3 away games as home games only one of which is within driving distance of Toronto. I'm certainly not going to Hamilton for one of our "home games". BC managed to put their rescheduled games into venues which allow their fans to attend without flying half way across the country and also put the games into stadiums in places where they might attract new fans. MLSE seems to have picked the easiest and cheapest options for them and for TSN. How about a game in Kingston, Guelph, Waterloo or London? You grow the fan base by taking the game to them and getting them in the stands.

The owners don't care about the fans. The fiddling with the rules and making the game more like the NFL will do nothing to attract new fans. It's also an incredibly tone deaf thing to do when there is so much anti-American sentiment in Canada at the current time. All the CFL has managed to do is alienate their most loyal fans. They talk glowingly about expansion but who is going to want to join a league when 7 out of the 9 teams are losing money, the owners don't want to spend any money promoting the game. You want me to pony up money for season's tickets when I don't know where any of the sections are going to be based on the new layout, no thanks.

TSN doesn't care about the fans in the seats, the CFL commissioner made a big point of saying the changes to the shot clock will speed up the game, do you know what slows the game down more than anything else? TV commercial timeouts, I understand that the CFL needs TV money to survive but calling a TV timeout in the middle of the series, second and 6 for example is irritating. They also like to call a commercial break when the momentum in the game switches. It's almost like the TSN producers are doing their best to interrupt the flow of the game. How about we start by only calling a TV commercial timeout when possession changes.

Getting to BMO field is a huge trial. This season there were games where the GO train wasn't running or skipped BMO field. If you live north of the city transit isn't really an option especially if you have limited mobility, and/or it's a weeknight game.I'm not giving up on going to games but I'll see how things go next season.

That's all I can come up with for now, I may add more later or add a second part later.

Recently I was working with a machine that had a cloned hard drive with lvm's and xfs partitions. When I tried to use the volume group I got errors like

pvs
WARNING: Not using device /dev/sdc2 for PV wES5Fr-7wxw-PYKb-0o0T-5IP4-oZdl-CwQOa7.
WARNING: PV wES5Fr-7wxw-PYKb-0o0T-5IP4-oZdl-CwQOa7 prefers device /dev/sda2 because device is used by LV.
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 centos lvm2 a-- <1.82t 4.00m

blkid showed that the Volume groups had duplicate UUID's
/dev/sda1: UUID="2d7614b5-d3a9-4b04-800b-852117d77cf4" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="00018e4d-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="wES5Fr-7wxw-PYKb-0o0T-5IP4-oZdl-CwQOa7" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="00018e4d-02"
/dev/mapper/centos-root: UUID="425c049b-f8ad-4584-a5ba-e3ecef9006b0" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/mapper/centos-swap: UUID="c876eab0-5170-411d-b3bf-f771c5c349ba" TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/centos-home: UUID="3903ea6c-3835-4c39-b7a3-32f57e1d1bcd" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="CENTOS-STRE" UUID="1E19-1347" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="002bdd6e-01"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="2d7614b5-d3a9-4b04-800b-852117d77cf4" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="00018e4d-01"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="wES5Fr-7wxw-PYKb-0o0T-5IP4-oZdl-CwQOa7" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="00018e4d-02"

After some Googling I found that all I had to do was run
vgimportclone /dev/sdc2
then
vgscan showed both the volume groups
Found volume group "centos1" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "centos" using metadata type lvm2

and I could use vgchange -ay centos1 to activate the volume group

but when I tried to mount the filesystem and got this error
XFS (dm-3): Filesystem has duplicate UUID 3903ea6c-3835-4c39-b7a3-32f57e1d1bcd - can't mount

more Googling pointed me to xfs_admin to generate new UUID's for the xfs partitions

xfs_admin -U generate /dev/mapper/centos1-home

after all that was done everything worked fine.

It's been a while. I wanted to refer to my docker cheat sheet and found that my website was broken. I have no idea how long it's been down but I spent the time to get it reconfigured and working again.

The West Wing reunion stage presentation of "Hartsfield's Landing" is now available in Canada on Crave.ca. Not to be missed by any dedicated West Wing fan. https://www.crave.ca/en?ua=eyJtIjoiYSIsInAiOlsiYyIsImNwIl0sImwiOiJlbiJ9#/special/48345

The creative team and cast organized this historic production in order to raise awareness for and support of When We All Vote, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization co-chaired by Michelle Obama.