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

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Books read in March 2016

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New: 1. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg 2. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Monroe 3. Building Art...
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Journalism Wanted: who are the people who write publishable letters to the editor without knowing they'll be googleable?

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Recently, the Toronto Star's public editor wrote about people who want their letters to the editor unpublished because they're googl...
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Where have all the anti-chafing gels gone?

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I recently had my very first experience with thigh chafing. I have no idea why it happened now or why it has never happened before, but it m...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Rimmel Scandaleyes Precision Micro Eyeliner is none of the above

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My default eyeliner is Rimmel Glam'Eyes liquid liner, which I appreciate in particular for its very thin brush, which allows a fine and ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

If you haven't sponsored Eddie Izzard yet, now's the time!

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Tomorrow is the last day of Eddie Izzard 27 marathons in 27 day challenge . So far, he has completed 25 marathons in 26 days, after losing...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Downton Abbey thoughts (full spoilers)

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- Much like I was disappointed about not seeing Tom and Sybil's life in Ireland, I was disapopinted about not seeing Tom and Sybbie'...
Saturday, March 05, 2016

We can't assume we'll have fewer expenses in retirement

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Conventional retirement planning wisdom is that you'll have fewer expenses in retirement, citing the absence of expenses such as parenti...
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Thursday, March 03, 2016

What's the name for the way parts of my firefox interface are disappearing?

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For the past couple of days, my Firefox has been occasionally having this weird graphics problem, where parts of the interface at the top di...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Books read in February 2016

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New: 1. Get Onboard: Walk in the Shoes of a Transit Operator by Richard Lee 2. Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan Reread: 1. Memo...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Eddie Izzard's latest awesomeness and lunacy

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Eddie Izzard is once again attempting to run 27 marathons in 27 days across South Africa to honour Nelson Mandela and raise money for Sport...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

How to reboot Are You Being Served?

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I was very surprised to hear that they're rebooting Are You Being Served? because that show is very much a product of its time and tota...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Go Set a Watchman braindump

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This post is a full spoiler zone for Go Set a Watchman. 1. It's quite obvious that Harper Lee did not intend this book in its current...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Books read in January 2016

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New: 1. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee 2. The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

More things I don't understand in Go Set a Watchman

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This is still a spoiler-free zone for Go Set a Watchman. I'm still less than 100 pages in. In Maycomb, one drank or did not drink. Whe...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Things They Should Invent: building emergency keys automatically summon the elevator

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From an article about emergency response in highrise buildings: Fire departments are supposed to have access to a universal elevator key...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Things I don't understand in the first 15 pages of Go Set A Watchman

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I just started reading Go Set a Watchman (no spoilers please - I'm only 15 pages in) and I all at once encountered a whole spate of thin...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition IX

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14. If you complain that someone is doing X instead of Y when X and Y are in no way incompatible or mutually exclusive (e.g. "Instead o...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Things They Should Invent: the option to delete real words from the spellcheck dictionary

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"Costal" is a real word. It means "of or relating to the ribs". And I very, very, very rarely have to use it in my trans...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

The Curse of Knowledge: condo edition

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I recently learned about a concept called the curse of knowledge .  Wiki defines it as "a cognitive bias that leads better-informed pa...
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