impudent strumpet

There are some people in the world who think catcalling and street harassment aren't actual problems.  For the purpose of brevity, I...

1. Automatically set your holds list to "inactive" after you have a certain number of books in transit  I add every single book ...

My Favourite Little Person, who turned 1 in November, loves to talk.  She holds forth at length about the issues of the day, uttering surpri...

Normally, I sort eBay search results by price+shipping, lowest to highest.  However, sometimes there are some sellers who are selling only o...

A while back, I asked "Is the North actually empty?"   I'd seen maps that suggest large swaths of completely uninhabited land,...

I've blogged before about how I used to want to have children, but then grew up to realize that I am in fact childfree. Conventional ...

I've been watching and enjoying Big Bang Theory for several years (thank you Poodle!).  After I watch a new episode of any TV show, I li...

Way back in university, one of my translation profs mentioned a concept called a "Google vote".  If you're trying to figure ou...

What I don't like about Apple devices is that whenever I have trouble with them, there's very few things to do.  With PCs, there...

Recently in the news: school board director Chris Spence plagiarized parts of an article he wrote for the Toronto Star . Here's what I...

How old were you when you first learned that abortion is a thing that exists, and in what context did you learn about it? I'm asking b...

There's a lot of research about how exercise is allegedly good for non-physical things, like mood or cognition.  Articles about this r...

With my GERD diagnosis, I had to cut back on my tomato sauce intake.  Pre-GERD, I routinely had pasta with tomato sauce (about half a cup) f...

One of the fantastic characteristics of my friendship with Poodle is that it withstands neglect.  From time to time, one or both of us will ...

20/20 vision means that when you're 20 feet away from something, you can see it as well as a person with normal can see it when they...

From the Star:   IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: This year you often will go to extremes. In the process of doing so, you couldn’t care less...

In the paper tray of the Epson Stylus NX130 all in one inkjet printer, there is a grey slidey thing, apparently called an edge guide.  It ne...

I blogged previously about a storyline in the comic strip Between Friends, where the character of Kim had been asked by her son's teach...