impudent strumpet

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

Monday, August 30, 2010

Current annoyances

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1. My G1 licence (which I only have for ID) expired a while back, so today I went to Service Ontario at College Park to renew it. I was a ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

How can the median family income be three times the median individual income?

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From an otherwise unrelated article : So in a city where, according to the 2006 census, individuals earned a median income of $26,754 a year...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Tragic ungoogleability

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This is Monty Python's Galaxy Song: Very useful for science students! Except who does astrophysics in miles any more? What this song re...

Why people who support mayoral candidate Rob Ford's ideas should be concerned about him

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1. Rob Ford "forgot" that he was charged with drug possession in the US. Regardless of whether or not the drug charges themselve...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

How to spot an optimistic Francophone

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I already knew that there are two French words for the ordinal number "second" ( deuxième and second ), but I only very recently ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

A horse

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Today I saw a police horse for the first time since the G20. (If you're just tuning in, the reason why this is significant is described ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Cute of the day

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Did you go look at how big the Pakistan flood is? If not, go look at it now. Did you look at it? Really? Okay, now you can watch the monk...

You need to drop everything and look at this right now

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Remember that website that project the oil spill onto a map centred on your hometown? Now they have one that does the same thing with the Pa...
Monday, August 23, 2010

A concrete improvement to one of the TTC panel recommendations

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I've been reading the TTC Customer Service Panel Report (PDF), and I thought of a way to improve upon Recommendation 2R. The report say...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Things They Should Invent: standardized, widely-known way for children to make clear that they're just being cheerful to be polite

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(This actually stems from another blog post that I'm hoping to get up today (the one about the secret to unhappiness, if it's up by ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Slice of life

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Summer, 10 years ago. My bedroom was right under the roof. My fast food shift started early in the morning and ended early in the afternoo...
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Counter-asshattery

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A few days ago, Salon printed this story where a guy feels so emasculated by having lost his job that he feels the need to engage in a trul...

Mystery of the moment

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I know some people who don't live in Toronto but have opinions about Toronto municipal politics. Their opinions are most often not comp...

How to get all law-abiding citizens to trust police with two simple rules

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1. If you are found to be innocent of whatever police were trying to arrest/detain/search/question you for in the first place, you (and any...

Why you should be worried about our police even if you feel safe around police

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Arising from this . It seems the best strategy the police can think of when faced with a large peaceful crowd with a minority of criminal el...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Wil Wheaton is awesome!

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This story isn't new, but I just heard it yesterday. Wil Wheaton personally replied to an 8-year-old's lost fan club application - 2...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A solution to busybodies

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There are certain parties who like to ask very personal questions and, when you protest, say "But I was just making conversation!"...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Things They Should Study: economic return on refugees

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My grandparents came here on a boat 50 years ago with their gaggle of children. They did manage to find jobs and be self-supporting, but if...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

How to get Canadians to embrace a 1950s vision of Canada

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Lawrence Martin suggests that the current government aspires to a 1950s vision of Canada (h/t Sister Sage ). I've been thinking about t...
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