impudent strumpet

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

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Poo(p)

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I was googling about various digestive-related things, and, since Google generally knows what I need and I don't always act like a grown...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Reconstructing Shakespeare

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Dear Prudence , My girlfriend and I are having a disagreement. I posed to her the following hypothetical situation: Would you rescue from...
Friday, August 23, 2013

A public apology to Eddie Izzard

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Dear Eddie Izzard, During one of your May 2010 shows at Massey Hall in Toronto, you asked the audience who or what Massey Hall was named a...

An idea for "Bad Guy Trying to be the Good Guy" in last week's Carolyn Hax chat

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From last week's Carolyn Hax chat : Several years ago, I abruptly and unilaterally ended an 18-month relationship. I stand firm with ...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

How spanking hurts

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My parents spanked me when I was a child. I haven't admitted that before because I'm painfully ashamed of it.  (So ashamed of it I c...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Pictures of text

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I recently clicked on a trending topic hashtag related to some drama or another in teen pop music fandom (#beliebersareherefordirectioners -...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Brother DCP-7060D: a printer that works

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I previously bought an inkjet printer simply because I needed a printer-scanner combo immediately and that was the cheapest one readily avai...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Options for Gmail's "new compose"

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I'm completely baffled that Gmail seems to think we want to compose our messages in a little window that hovers over our inbox where you...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Eddie Izzard Canadian tour (and how to convince Massey Hall to sell you tickets)

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Eddie Izzard is touring Canada in November and tickets just went on sale with the presale code BEES. To buy from Massey Hall, you need to...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

What if myopia makes your social skills worse?

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Last night as I went about my evening routine, I took off my glasses to wash my face, and then didn't bother to put them back on to take...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

A royal baby watcher on why the royal baby watch was pointless

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As I've blogged about before , I find the royal family interesting because they have this really bizarre job that they have to do and i...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

The folly of measuring calories in exercise

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Sometimes people talk about calories in terms of how much exercise it would take to burn them off.  There has even been talk of putting the ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Faking it

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Dear Carolyn :  In the mid-1990s, when I was 22 and my brother was 18, our family took a Caribbean cruise. It was fun, but not so much ...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

The tale of the GO bus skeptic

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The scene: I'm sitting in a GO bus, putting on my seabands in the hope of warding off motion sickness. Guy next to me : "What are...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Thank you Blogger!

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I recently blogged about a Blogger error message that prevents you from posting or saving posts unless the post has a title. It seems thi...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Analogy for why social media is not a replacement for RSS

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One of the things I found most bizarre in all the discussion surrounding the cancellation of Google Reader is that some people (including, a...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition V

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9. If you tell someone (or say about someone) that they should just get a job, as though it's that simple, you're required to hire t...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

People who don't have preferences

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Quite often, if someone mentions that they don't like a certain food, someone else will reply with something like "Oh, you just hav...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Things They Should Invent: emergency information robocalls for power outages

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My power didn't go out in the storm earlier this week, but, being a bit of a Twitter stormwatcher, I did occasionally look at Toronto Hy...
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