impudent strumpet

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

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Things They Should Invent: robocalls that disconnect automatically when they hear a voicemail beep

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I hate it when spam robocalls leave me a message on my voicemail, because then I have to log into my voicemail and delete the message so my ...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Comedy guilt

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This takes a lot of talent: He's doing silent physical comedy all alone, without anyone to play off or react to. He's doing it in f...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

My dreams are back!

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For my whole life, I've gotten particularly vivid, interesting, and emotionally satisfying dreams right before I wake up naturally. Tha...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

What if patients were allowed to deprioritize longevity?

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They recently changed breast cancer screening guidelines, reducing screening in areas where it hasn't been proven to reduce mortality . ...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Things They Should Invent: minimum Service Canada staffing levels proportionate to the number of unemployed Canadians

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Recently in the news: there are delays in Employment Insurance because the government has cut EI processing jobs. That seems rather backwar...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Causes I would like to get involved in

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1. Sufficient and reliable funding for all medical research Many charity fundraisers are raising money for research into various diseases. ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Garbage chute poll

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Please answer in the comments: which side of the building is your garbage chute on? I welcome multiple answers if you can remember from pre...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Is it easier to start a business in a small town?

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In one episode of Corner Gas, Brent mentions that he runs the only gas station for 40 km. In another episode, he mentions that he's sta...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Wholesale and retail

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Wholesalers sell products at lower prices and in larger quantities to retailers, who sell them at higher prices and in smaller quantities to...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Things They Should Invent: Movember buy-out

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Movember is a fundraiser where people spend the month of November growing a mustache, to raise funds for prostate cancer research. The probl...
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How many complaints about our health system are due to poor communication?

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A while back there was a story in the news about a lady who fell in a hospital and was told to call an ambulance. TorontoEmerg points out ...
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Things Google Should Invent: reverse sort by date

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Currently, you can sort your Google search results by date, which puts the most recent results first. But the only way to see the very olde...

Wherein I solve a mystery from half a lifetime ago

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Despite the bullies I faced in middle school, I managed to develop a small group of friends. In retrospect, it was a rather rudimentary defi...
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Gillette Fusion ProGlide

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I recently received a sample of the Gillette Fusion ProGlide razor. This razor is intended for men to use on their faces, but I'm a wom...
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Analogy for Greece

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I've been reading a lot about the situation in Greece, and one thing that keeps popping up is that, depending on how it's framed, ei...

Things that took a year to make it into the news

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1. G20 jail photos raise alarm bells for police chair . Why were these alarm bells not raised day of? Reports of jail conditions were making...
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What if quality of housing counted towards section 37 community benefits?

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I was looking at City of Toronto documents for a proposed development, and I was surprised to see that the developer had to contribute a cer...

Good morning!

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Here's what I'm doing today and why. There might be some posts dealing with news items that are no longer fresh, because I'll pr...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

A faster alternative to peeling eggs

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The way I was taught to open hard-boiled eggs is to smash them on the counter and roll them around until there's a bunch of cracks in th...
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