impudent strumpet
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Monday, January 31, 2005
A grammatical question
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In the movie title Return of the Jedi, is Jedi singular or plural? UPDATE: Further research suggests that no one is really certain, not ...
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A poll: how much did you learn in school about the origins of life?
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I've been noticing in my perhipheral vision that people are still debating whether or how evolution or creationism should be taught in s...
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Insomnia update
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I was all awake and energetic early this morning. I did an hour of yoga, half an hour of cardio and half an hour of weights, and I was feel...
Insomnia
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I haven't slept. So I guess I'm calling in sick tomorrow, i.e. today. I lay in bed for hours doing breathing exercises, but it didn...
Sunday, January 30, 2005
An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir by John Metcalf
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I did not enjoy this book at all. I picked it up because I had heard it was witty, but I think it caused a total of one chuckle and two sma...
Random thought
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As I've mentioned before, I have remarkably low novelty-seeking. This doesn't bother me at all - in fact it's quite convenient....
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Some visual effects don't stand up to time so well
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I'm watching Return of the Jedi, and I just noticed that they keep using different wipes whenever they change scenes. It reminds me of ...
Friday, January 28, 2005
How to improve political discourse
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I think general global political discourse could be much improved if various opinions on the situation in the Middle East were not automatic...
Is this really appropriate attire for Auschwitz survivors?
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In the newspapers they were showing photos of Auschwitz survivors marking the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation. The weird thin...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
A formula for evaluating age differences in a relationship
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We all know about the formula to measure social acceptability, where you take the age of the older party, divide it by two, and add seven ye...
The benefits of unique headwear, and other stories
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Today at work I felt like the crappitiest crap ever crapped. I was tired and grumpy and couldn't concentrate or focus. My eyes were ti...
Monday, January 24, 2005
In re: BYOB
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Why only wine? Why can't you bring your own beer or vodka?
Fuzzy, grey, and...sexy?
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For my birthday, my mother got me these fuzzy charcoal-grey pants. They're just comfy warm fleece loungewear, not intended to be seen a...
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The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by David P. Silcox
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I was first introduced to the Group of Seven (which, incidentally, had ten members) as a young child. I didn't like their work at the t...
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Help?
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I'm looking for this video I found a while ago. It has these guys in robot-like outfits acting out little skits demonstrating the diffe...
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Then I was inspired...now I'm sad and tired...
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Logically I know that what I need to do to learn a new language is steadily work ahead. I've formally studied four other languages befor...
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Saturday, January 22, 2005
One tonne challenge
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So I went to the One Tonne Challenge website to see what it has to say. Turns out my emissions are 3.17 tonnes (out of a national average ...
Brilliant Ideas that will Never Work: food price controls that make the healthiest food the most affordable
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Some countries (I think France is one of them) have price controls on basic staple foods to ensure that things like bread and milk remain af...
Fun with headline semantics
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Globe and Mail headline: "Martin threatens same-sex election" My first thought upon seeing this: "NO NO NO! God int...
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