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New: 1. The Long Way Home by Louise Penny 2. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain with Lisa Pulitz...

I recently realized that, based on the various jobs I've had, the "better" my job is (in the sense of more specialized, social...

When Robin Williams committed suicide, many people responded with the "Genie, you're free" scene from Aladdin. This response ...

I've been carrying around a lot of stress and worry and general disproportionate bad feelings about the latest round of condo drama for ...

In the past year, there have been a lot of fit and flare dresses in stores that have one thing on common: when I put them on, it looks like ...

This whole blog post is obsolete, in that it applies to the world before streaming and on-demand.  However, it just occurred to me now, so I...

@impstrump It was, initially, but I ended up writing the article in a direction that made the poll irrelevant. — Wil Wheaton (@wilw) Nove...

As I've blogged about before , I have a system and I find it beneficial.  But there are two consequences of this that sometimes seem a b...

1. In my last post, I mentioned how I can't cope with interior decorating but can do my job well.  This is because my job is easy, or at...

I blogged before about how it would be interesting if we could objectively quantify luck.  With the latest round of condo drama, I've...

A few days ago I got a call saying I have to make an appointment to choose my condo finishes.  But there are a lot of problems with how it...

I've been having some stress about having to choose my condo finishes. Then I've been feeling incompetent because I find this stress...

Here's what I'm doing today and why.

Working from home is so good for me that I can't think of any reasonable salary increase that would induce me to switch to a job where I...

I'm currently reading Hild by Nicola Griffith (no spoilers please, I'm only a little ways in), which is set in 7th century English a...

There's an interesting, non-politics-related, factoid about the family of Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Rob Ford is one of four children of ...

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...

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

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...