impudent strumpet
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Beauty products are not the enemy
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This surprises me. First of all, I'm surprised at the assumption that media and advertising are key in making people feel dissatisfied w...
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Blast from the past
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Latest iTunes rediscovery: 1. Those girls got pipes! Not just vocally, but in their arms as well! I didn't know women did weight trai...
Things They Should Invent: standard nonaggressive nonjudgemental way of asking other people in the subway to give up their seat for a third party
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Sometimes you're on the subway and you see someone standing who should probably have a seat (elderly, disabled, pregnant, etc.) but you ...
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Lookit! Lookit!
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Baby otters!
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Conspiracy theory anyone?
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Theory: our government's real motivation in embarrassing us internationally by banning George Galloway from the country is to ultimately...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Things They Should Invent: don't say no, name your price instead
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Some US-based online retailers won't ship to Canada. At all. Period. It occurs to me that there must be some amount of money that woul...
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OMG PUPPY SQUEE!
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Dude walks into my building walking the most adorable dog ever. Big puppy, floppy ears, white with brown spots including a spot over one ey...
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Penalties
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I've been receiving a lot of political propoganda lately assuring me that longer jail sentences have been introduced, so my children wil...
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Random thoughts from childhood
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1. When I was a kid, a lot of the grownups around me assumed that if I was into something, that must necessarily be because it's trendy...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Things They Should Invent: hair removal method for hairs that aren't there
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Every method of hair removal will only remove hairs that are there. So why's this a problem you're asking? Let me give you an exam...
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More information please (Ontario budget edition)
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1. What exactly is to be gained by harmonizing the sales taxes? Media coverage implies that there is some widely-known benefit to doing t...
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Friday, March 27, 2009
This is surprisingly perky for a song about adultery and murder
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Wake Up Call - Maroon 5
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Things They Should Invent Words For
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We need a word for when you're absolutely sure you have some factoid on good authority and you know for certain that somewhere out there...
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Weird tax benefit decision
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Check out the table here. Single individuals get $300. Single parents and couples get $1000. Semantically and syntactically, that means al...
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How to make a harmonized sales tax as painless as possible
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When they harmonize the sales taxes , people are going to notice. Things that were previously taxed at 5% are suddenly going to be taxed at...
A Toronto moment
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The lady next to me on the subway is wearing exactly the same scarf as me. Mine is intricately and decoratively folded and knotted in my ve...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Interjurisdictional driver's licences
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Suppose you're a teenager growing up in the place in the world with the lowest driving age. You start going through the licencing proce...
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Things They Should Invent: Sing To Your Headphones Day
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In the spirit of Talk Like A Pirate Day, on Sing To Your Headphones Day everyone gets to walk around singing out loud to whatever music is p...
xkcd imitates life
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1. I always have these dreams. (Click on the link - I tried to embed but it's too wide.) I've even blogged about them. They alw...
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