impudent strumpet

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

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Things They Should Invent: flying hairdryer droid

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I don't use a hairdryer every day because on normal days my hair is dry by the time I need to leave. However, on days when I'm runn...

To do next time I encounter abortion protesters

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A couple of years ago, I encountered an abortion protest (my first as a pedestrian) where they had giant pictures of dismembered babies. I ...
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The problem with the constantly-evolving English language

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I'm in a pet store looking at an adorable pile of puppies playing. They're an adorable pile of puppies and they're playing, so ...
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I guess I didn't exude enough estrogen

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Apparently fathers' politics shift further to the left the more daughters they have. If that's the case, I hate to see what my fathe...
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What's up with today's Foxtrot?

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Warp factor 11??? Surely both Bill Amend and Jason Fox know that the warp scale only goes up to 10. (Yes, I am that kind of nerd. We alread...
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Twitter is bringing back the good old days

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In the olden days of the internet, it was kind of socially acceptable to email someone just because you saw their posting somewhere and had ...
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Comparative stylistics

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Writing that last post reminded me of something that my 2nd year French prof said. She said "French expresses abstract ideas better th...
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Traduire la lutte

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A couple of times I've had to translate incident reports that contain, literally, blow-by-blow accounts of altercations. As with many th...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Anyone know the nitty gritty details of sterilization?

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With both Essure and tubal ligation, the Fallopian tubes are made impassable, so the ova can't get from the ovaries to the uterus. But t...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Things I want to blog about but am currently too tired

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- Why current electoral boundaries are a disservice to the highrise-dwelling residents of Yonge & Eg. - Joe Fiorito's latest column ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Look at the baby sheep!

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BAAA!

Can dogs read humans?

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The other day, a puppy who didn't know better tried to use me as a chew toy. I didn't particularly mind because he was adorable and...
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Either I don't have an original thought in my head, or I should be a political advisor

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1. Last fall, I analyzed Stéphane Dion's CTV interview. Yesterday, the CBSC came to the same conclusions as I did. For obvious reas...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Conspiracy theory, anyone?

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Because it's fun to make conspiracy theories: What if the federal gov't recently announced that the deficit is going to be higher th...
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For In Death fans

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Stephen, a contestant on today's episode of Jeopardy, is TOTALLY McNab!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Acting

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The first couple of times I see something on TV, I don't normally notice the acting because I'm following the story. But then when ...
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Tarted up and kicking ass

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Train of thought originating from a post on Broadsheet where a guy was surprised when a girl who was dressed fashionably knew stuff about fi...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Current musical obsession

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Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revisited
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Things They Should Study: queue strategy

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At the grocery store, suppose at one register there's one person with 10 items, and at another register there's two people 5 five it...
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