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

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Books read in August 2014

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New: 1. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle 2. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) 3. The Unquiet (shor...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The pros and cons of having a system

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The other day, I had a day where I felt like I got nothing done.  I kept falling down the internet rabbit hole and getting caught up in gami...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Weird Al

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From a New Yorker profile of Weird Al : With his parodic versions of hit songs, this somehow ageless fifty-four-year-old has become popul...
Friday, August 15, 2014

What do you do if someone decides to Talk To you?

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With Robin Williams's death in the news, we're seeing a reinvigoration of the notion that if you're feeling depressed or suicida...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Robin Williams

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Normally when someone commits suicide and the people left behind say "He had so much to live for," they mean normal regular every...
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Monday, August 04, 2014

Things They Should Invent Words For: "I don't actually think it's a conspiracy, but it looks exactly like one"

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I have contacted Rob Ford in my capacity as a citizen and his capacity as mayor, and not only did he not address the issues I raised, he did...
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Saturday, August 02, 2014

Why working from home makes me blog less

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I have an excellent productivity system when I'm working at home: after producing a certain quantity of work (the quantity depends on th...
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Friday, August 01, 2014

High waists and tucked-in shirts

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This year I've seen quite a few young women, especially teenagers,wearing high-waisted pants with loose shirts tucked in.  This surprise...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Books read in July 2014

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New: 1. Love and Forgetting: A husband and wife's journey through dementia by Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol 2. The Little Prince...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Journalism Wanted: why don't doctors who don't want to prescribe contraception join another field of medicine?

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There was recently a story in the news where a walk-in clinic doctor wouldn't prescribe birth control because he had moral objections t...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Things I'm sure they've invented a word for, but I can't think what it is

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I'm looking for a word or phrase to express the concept of going straight to boldly/almost-but-not-quite aggressively asserting your rig...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Jockey underwear seems to fit differently depending on where it was made

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I recently bought two packages of Jockey Elance French Cut panties, which is the closest I've been able to find to my late lamented old ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Things They Should Invent: follow-up online reviews, with automatic reminder emails

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Just over a year ago, I bought a paper shredder. (Brand name Rosewill, from Newegg.)  Just days after the one-year warranty expired, the shr...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Do police normally photograph the genitals of child pornography victims?

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There was recently a story in the news about a 17-year-old boy who sent sexually explicit photos to his 15-year-old girlfriend, and as a re...
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Saturday, July 05, 2014

How to illustrate articles about dying bees

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Lately, there have been quite a few articles in the media saying that bees are dying out because of pesticide use, with the general thesis t...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Dementia brings back the monsters under the bed?

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I've been reading Love and Forgetting: A husband and wife's journey through dementia by Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol, which te...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Books read in June 2014

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New: 1. The Master of All Desires by Judith Merkle Riley 2. Mary Poppins, She Wrote by Valerie Lawson 3. Life Below Stairs: Domestic Se...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Open letter to "No Acronym Here" in this week's Savage Love

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From this week's Savage Love: My husband and I have been happy swingers for four years. Our issue? I'm pregnant. My husband had...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

How the library can improve its automatic return system

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I should be happy about my library's automatic return system, since it's yet another example of one of my inventions materializing ...
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