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Friday, October 31, 2014

Books read in October 2014

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New: 1. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court by Anna Whitelock 2. The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duc...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Things They Should Invent: tournament-style mayoral debates

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In this past election, Toronto had a ridiculous number of mayoral candidates and a ridiculous number of mayoral debates . But, for the va...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Voted

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A non-descript fall day for a very descript municipal election. As I've blogged about before, I have a superstition that I need to pet...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

All Toronto municipal candidates should publicly post their Vote Compass results

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I was pleased to see that there's a Vote Compass for the Toronto mayoral election , but I was disappointed that it only compared your po...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Telling Koko the Sign-Language Gorilla about Robin Williams's death

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The question in this week's Ethicist is interesting : According to press reports, Koko, the gorilla adept at sign language, seemed s...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Help me find the words to describe my idiocy

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I tweeted this story when it happened, so it might be familiar to some of you.  Disclaimer: I do recognize the flaws in my thinking in this ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

What if we could quantify luck?

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Wouldn't it be interesting if we could objectively measure and quantify luck, and you could know exactly how much good or bad luck was i...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Toronto Ward 22 Councillor candidates Sarfraz Khan, Bob Murphy and James O'Shaughnessy

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Attention Sarfraz Khan, Bob Murphy, and James O'Shaughnessy: I am a Ward 22 voter, and I don't feel I can vote for the position of...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

My municipal election voting dilemma

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There are currently 4 candidates for city councillor in my ward: the incumbent and 3 challengers. The incumbent has the expected online pr...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Books read in September 2014

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New: 1. Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb 2. North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov 3. The Orenda by Joseph...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Would it really be a bad thing if income tax disincentivized people from working more?

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A piece of conventional wisdom I've been hearing ever since I was a child that higher marginal income tax rates for higher tax brackets ...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Why was Rob Ford able to kill Transit City unilaterally?

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On his first day as mayor, Rob Ford came into work early and killed Transit City. With all the other things that happened since then, I...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Typing is slow in Gmail

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For the last couple of weeks, when I try to type a reply in Gmail, typing is really slow.  The letters are appearing at about half the speed...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Rimmel Lash Accelerator Endless

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My favourite mascara is Rimmel Lash Accelerator.  I needed a new tube recently, and when I looked in the store I was surprised to discover t...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Things They Should Study: does street harassment by construction workers correlate with their working conditions?

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From a blog post by Scott Adams that's otherwise irrelevant to what I'm writing about here: For starters, I don't know any me...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The mystery of RN #61683 CA #23638

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I recently tried a different style of Jockey underwear (updated my comparison post accordingly), and when I looked at the tag to see the st...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Levelling up my Twitter achievements

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Eric Idle retweeted me! Screenshot: The original link can be found here , but it's not as obvious from a direct link to the tweet i...
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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