impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Monday, March 31, 2008

If you've never seen an elephant ski then you've never been on acid

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Everyone who cares has already seen these, but I just feel the need to squee about this one because they make lego elephants1 There's s...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

So how much power does Nelly Furtado's microphone use?

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Nelly Furtado did a concert in Nathan Phillips Square to mark Earth Hour. It was described as an acoustic candlelight concert. But the pic...

Happy thoughts

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I'm not into the spiritual aspect of yoga, I'm just in it for the stretching. (I know, I know, white people like yoga , but so do m...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

How to fake Earth Hour

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Set up candles so that you're between the candle and the window. Don't turn on any lights that are closer to the window than the ca...

The problem with Earth Hour

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With most things in life, you can just quietly not participate. Even things with a lot of social pressure, you can just sit at home and do ...
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Things La Senza Should Invent: put precision fit cups on the invisible bra

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Dear La Senza: I adore what your precision fit bra does for my shape, but something about the elastics on the back make it a bit more conduc...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour

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The more I hear about Earth Hour, the more Stuff White People Like it seems.
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Why do you not work for the TTC?

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The usual brinksmanship about the possibility of a TTC strike has brought out the usual rage from people who think TTC workers earn entirely...
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You know you're a langling when...

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a man is pregnant and your first thought is all the fascinating grammatical issues this raises in various languages (enceint? embarazado?)....
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I think I need sensitivity training

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The lady behind me in the grocery line was in a wheelchair. So I looked at her to see what was wrong with her. Then I remembered that you ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Things They Should Invent: a torrent of all songs banned by Clear Channel after September 11

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I just found this on Wikipedia. I noticed it when it happened, and then forgot about it. But it's a good playlist! Someone make a torr...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Post your headphone recommendations here

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The headphones that came with my ipod are dying, so I'm in the market for new ones. I want something with hardly any bulk (because it h...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Another one of those annoying posts where I take credit for coincidences

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Me last May Salon since January Me a couple weeks ago Toronto Star yesterday (3rd picture from bottom)
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Things They Should Invent: don't ghettoize classical music

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There's been a bit of a fuss in the Globe and Mail lately because CBC Radio 2 is going to be playing less classical music. It occurs to ...
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Slice of life

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1994. Grade 9. I'm painfully shy and awkward as the result of years of bullying, feel miscast in my role as a high school student, hav...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Things They Should Invent: a book on how to swear fluently in other languages

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I know lots and lots of swear words in all kinds of languages. But I don't know how to use them properly. I think I know how to use th...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

The problem with Elizabeth and Anthony as a couple

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Most of the fandom grievances against Anthony have been described here far more eloquently than I could. Now I don't object to Anthony...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Writing a "cake or death" joke is left as an exercise for the reader

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I have a million things to blog and I'm too tired. So here's some fun music. (You don't have to watch, you can just press play...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

A sociological survey of my spam folder

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My spam folder is full of penis enlargement spam (amazing what those spammers know about my genitals), but nearly all the subject lines are ...
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I collect languages, give away free ideas, and construct precision analogies.
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