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Warning: this post contains spoilers for all of Downton Abbey to date. - So why did O'Brien have it in for Thomas all this season any...

I spent Friday waiting at home for Staples to come and pick up the chair I'm returning.  (They never did, and they won't be able to ...

A while back, I read and enjoyed Daughter of Smoke and Bone.  I then googled it and learned that a sequel was in the works, but the titl...

This article about when humans figured out that sex makes babies contains my favourite piece of logic ever: [...] anthropologists studyi...

As I blogged about yesterday, I recently read The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman. ...

I recently read The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman.  It contained some ideas that ...

One time when my grandmother was in the hospital, before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's but after she's started showing what we ...

Recently there was a Supreme Court decision about whether people should be forced to expose their faces when testifying in court.  This case...

The way a gift registry normally works is you make a list of all the things you want and people buy them for you. The problem with that is...

Picture a person walking down the street pulling a bundle buggy or a wheeled suitcase behind them. The buggy/suitcase isn't directly b...

We live in a family-oriented neighbourhood in the heart of our city . Dozens of kids ride bikes, play soccer and so on while adults chat ...

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...