impudent strumpet
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Saturday, May 31, 2008
What does the library think we're doing with CDs?
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The Toronto library lets you take out CDs for 3 weeks, even though it only allows 1 week for DVDs. What do they think we're doing with C...
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Because my blogging hasn't been vapid enough today, an iTunes meme
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Open up iTunes, if you have it (if not, improvise), and answer the following questions: How many total songs? 3207 songs, 41.2 days (I thin...
Stop talking about Julie Couillard's cleavage!
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There's one very important point that everyone seems to be missing: Julie Couillard wasn't wearing cleavage. For cleavage, the brea...
Things They Should Invent: target-shooting guns that can't kill anyone
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Whenever there's talk of tightening restrictions on guns, people are always like "OMG, but target shooting! It's a sport, ergo...
The other problem with that polygamist cult
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I have a few hairstyles in my repertoire that lift my long hair up off my neck while still giving the illusion of volume. These are good fo...
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Open Letters to my cosmetics
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Dear Jolen: Your bleach is without question the best on the market, but your packaging is very user-unfriendly. Please provide proportionat...
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Harm reduction
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I wonder if people who are opposed to harm reduction have never been on a diet or something? Because if you didn't get your workout in ...
Open Letter to Riddex Plus
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Dear Riddex Plus: I am more freaked out by household pests than anyone else I've ever met. And yet, I still think your TV commercial is...
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Geordi La Forge
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Geordi's best friend is Data. This makes me wonder if there's something wrong with Geordi emotionally or something. Don't get m...
Essential
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The word essential seems to have become weakened. I was just writing a sentence where I used the word essential to mean "absolutely im...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
How do embassies work?
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So people are sending panties to Burma again. This is good timing - I actually do need to clean out my underwear drawer, and I'm about...
How far do I stick it in? (or: teach me how to wear noise-cancelling earbuds)
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So I've got noise-cancelling earbuds, and I'll review them after I've used them for a couple of days. But first, I'm not su...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Things They Should Invent: a googlebomb that mocks Than Shwe's penis size
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The more I read about Burma, the more I'm thinking this Than Shwe fellow seems really insecure. Like bizarrely ridiculously insecure. ...
Why on earth would car people be opposed to public transit?
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The Globe and Mail has this columnist, one Neil Reynolds , whose overarching thesis week after week seems to be "Public transit shouldn...
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Do blind people ever just want to be left alone?
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I often see blind people on the subway, and random strangers always help them. Most people have obviously read the same pamphlets I have, b...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Wherein the LCBO makes me feel like a disenfranchised child
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One day, when I was a kid, my family was visiting the zoo when it started raining hard. Since we had already seen most of the zoo and didn...
Monday, May 26, 2008
Things They Should Invent: don't check warrants on people who call 911
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This guy calls 911 to save his own life, and the police arrest him on an outstanding warrant. So now people with outstanding warrants aren...
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Things They Should Invent: retirement homes that AREN'T like high school socially
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Apparently retirement homes are like high school. So someone fix this! Redesign it! Rethink it! Give people more privacy! Locate it some...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Low-flying planes
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Today in my five-minute walk to Shopper's, I saw two different airplanes that seemed to be flying really low, like way lower than usual....
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