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

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Books read in June 2015

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New: 1. The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase 2. Naked Came the Phoenix (serial n...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Epsom salts are the solution to blisters!

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Content warning: this post contains graphic, yucky descriptions of blisters and feet. tl;dr: if you have blisters on your feet, soak them i...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Taking for granted achieved!

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With yesterday's legalization of same-sex marriage nation-wide in the US (congratulations, by the way!), I was surprised to see a few pe...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

All change is not created equal.

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My various investigations into resilience tend to talk about change an awful lot, often framing people as either embracing change or being c...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Things They Should Study: does the success or failure of clothing retailers correlate with specific fashion trends?

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A few months ago, they closed the Smart Set in my neighbourhood.  I was disappointed, because some of my very favourite shirts have come fro...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Things They Should Invent: train PSWs in feminine facial hair removal techniques

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A while back, I came up with the idea that nursing homes should provide free esthetics services so female patients don't have to deal w...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Things They Should Invent: cellular network detection device

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My cellphone uses both the Rogers and Fido networks. The other day I was involved in a long texting conversation while walking around the ne...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Could working-class women dress themselves when upper-class women couldn't?

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At certain points in Western history, aristocratic women didn't dress themselves.  They had their maids help them.  Based on what I'...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Books read in May 2015

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New: 1. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion  ...
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Teach me about the connotations of Orange County, California in the 1980s

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When I was in elementary school (between 1985 and 1991),  this story-teller sort of guy came to our school and told us some stories.  When i...
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

The international exit sign

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I first saw this kind of sign in Frankfurt Airport in 1998.  I had just gotten off long flight and badly had to pee.  In my condition, ...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Whistling

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Whistling is hard, at least compared with other ways of producing potentially-musical noise such as humming or singing or just opening your ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The mystery of the Yonge Eglinton haters

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The "density creeps" who have been in the news lately remind me of one of the mysteries of Yonge & Eglinton: people who delib...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Various thoughts on various kinds of prejudice depicted in Call the Midwife (full spoilers)

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1. In one episode, the expectant parents with the Medical Drama of the Week happen to be a black couple.  It's mentioned in passing that...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

The folly of condemning a boycott

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There was recently a story tweeted into my feed about proposed "zero tolerance" for boycotting Israel . This reminded me of some...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Why are manufacturers pushing detergent pods?

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I'm signed up for various free sample and coupon sites, and I've noticed recently that they are really pushing detergent pods, for b...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Stressing about stress

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As you've noticed if you've been reading me these past few months, I've been getting stressed about various things that I think ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Another reason why early sex ed will lead to less early sex

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This post was inspired by, but is not directly related to, this quiz testing how much you know about the new Ontario sex ed curriculum. (I ...

Things They Should Study: do more apartments get too hot or too cold in shoulder seasons?

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I was very happy to hear that the City of Toronto is consulting the public about indoor temperature bylaws for rental housing.  I'm mis...
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