impudent strumpet

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

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Secularism: ur doin it wrong

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At first I wasn't going to blog about Quebec's Charte des valeurs. I've already written many times about how assholic it is...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Why is Facebook crawling blogs?

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Shortly after I post each blog post, I get a hit from something called Facebook Bot, which statcounter says is a bot crawling my site, presu...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Trading lives to cure jealousy

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There's a theory that if you're feeling jealous of someone, you should ask yourself if you'd trade lives with that person.  (Fo...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Is there a name for the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

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In one of my very first translation classes, the prof asked us to think about how we'd translate a short English sentence into French.  ...
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Monday, September 02, 2013

The lunch money mystery

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Conventional wisdom is that you should pack your lunch from home to save money. I've never done this.  There are enough lunch options ne...
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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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I collect languages, give away free ideas, and construct precision analogies.
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