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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Musings

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When I first started my job, three years ago, it seemed impossible. I felt like it would be ages before I could achieve what was expected o...
Monday, June 26, 2006

How do you get to be a Starfleet captain when you're missing vital life experiences????

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In the episode of TNG when Counselor Troi has a baby, her son gets to play with puppies in the little preschool/daycare thing they have on t...
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Half-formed thought

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Every time there's a slow news day, some media outlet or another publishes an article about how Kids Today (i.e. young adults) aren'...

If I were Lex Luthor...

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In Superman I, Lex Luthor has kryptonite. In Superman II, there are these three bad guys from the planet Krypton, and Lex Luthor has just b...

Things that would be cool

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It would be cool if, whenever a real-life person is a character in your dream, they're having the same dream but from their perspective....

Pride Day Challenge

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Your challenge for today is to use the expression "That is sooooo gay" as many times as possible, but ONLY in obviously non-judgem...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Open letter to the Fashion Powers That Be

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Dear Fashion Powers That Be: I'm glad to hear that the Midriff is Out. Really I am. However, the problem is, for my entire adult life ...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Good design

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Like many of this season's skirts, the skirt I'm wearing today has two layers: the skirt itself, and a built-in slip. This is very ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Queer

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This article in the Star's ethics column has me perturbed: Q: I'm a Protestant minister. I'm pretty well known in my church for ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Weird voicemail spam

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I got this message on my voicemail today - I don't know if it was a legit phone call or voicemail spam because it arrived while I was at...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Further meditations on being Childfree

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People who try to talk CFers into having children usually use the argument "But it's so rewarding!" The thing they fail or re...
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

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I would highly recommend that Americans read this book. It's a slow, labourious read (I poked at it over a period of months, while read...

Concealed weapons

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On TV, a guy is trying to rob some people by either holding a gun in his pocket or pretending he has a gun in his pocket. I've heard of...
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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Wherein a lowly prole blithely tells Stephen Hawking he's wrong

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Dear Mr. Hawking: Today you said that humanity must colonize space in order to survive. That is wrong. True, it is probably factually correc...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

For if you want to watch Enterprise from the beginning

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I'm currently watching what appears to be the final episode of Enterprise. This would suggest that they're going to start showing t...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Liberal leadership

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The weird thing about the Liberal party leadership race is that there is no way that every single one of the candidates can possibly think t...
Saturday, June 10, 2006

Things They Should Invent: Call Priority Display for cellphones

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The problem with a cellphone is that the call recipient could be anywhere, and the caller has no idea where the recipient is or what they...

And now, a musical number

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Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday same-sex marriage Happy birthday to you
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Friday, June 09, 2006

South Toronto?

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"South Toronto, like those parts of London that are host to the radical imams who influenced the 9/11 terrorists and the shoe bomber, h...
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