impudent strumpet

(as always, via Malene Arpe )

From this weekend's Globe and Mail: Bob is in a bar, looking at Susan. But she is looking at Pablo. Bob is married. Pablo is not. Is a m...

There are 200ish apartments in the typical highrise building. It's quite possible that's enough households for a viable freecycle. ...

I'm watching Casablanca on TV. It's a well-known piece of trivia that when they started filming they didn't yet know how the mov...

My flu shot is making my arm achy, so after a full day of typing at a computer (i.e. work) I'm not really up to more typing at a compute...

When text boxes are used in the documents I translate, it's always purely for layout purposes. The author just wants these words to be ...

1. They spent several months doing construction on my section of Yonge St., with the normally four-lane street reduced to two lanes during ...

I obviously don't know every single word that has been said about the Eglinton Crosstown line, but I have been keeping an eye on coverag...

With today's major outage of the Yonge subway from Bloor to Eglinton, we need one central location on the internet where everyone can po...

Click here for a map of Calgary and areas to the east. It opens in a new tab or window because you're going to need to look at it and ...

In 2003 or 2004, I needed one or two bungee cords for something. So I went to the dollar store and found a pack of 12 bungee cords for a do...

In the In Death books, a lot of the people who are hesitant to talk to police have done something that's a little bit bad. However, Lt....

Scott Adams asks whether you'd rather get $5 million and no one else gets anything, or you get $10 million on the condition that everyo...

Something bad happened recently. A joke misfired and caused me to have a panic attack, in a very inconvenient time and place, in front of p...

There is talk of introducing congestion charges in Toronto. Wouldn't it be cool if they could make congestion charges vary in real time ...

When I was 9 years old, I was allowed to go trickertreating without parental accompaniment for the first time in my life. After many many l...

I've been using the Sleeptracker for some time now, and does what it says it does. The problem, as with most things in life, is me. T...

The original plan was to get vaccinated as soon as I'm allowed, since I'm not in a priority group but early reports were this flu do...

I've blogged before about the concept that I call parental forgetfulness, where the instant people reproduce they seem to lose the abili...