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Friday, March 31, 2017

Books read in March 2017

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New: 1. We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp 2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling 3. Norther...

Things They Should Invent: outlaw commission

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Originally I was writing a blog post about how commission-based compensation for various professionals involved in real estate transactions ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

The notion of prayer is weird

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Within a paradigm where there is a deity who is capable of answering your prayers but does not always choose to do so, the very notion of pr...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Warning: Charmin Essentials Soft toilet paper is NOT the same as Charmin Ultra Soft

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I have brand loyalty to Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper.  It is the most comfortable toilet paper I have ever experienced, so I use it all t...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

What I didn't expect about living in a concierge building (#FirstWorldProblems)

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I knew that one of the services a concierge provides is that if you receive a package when you're not home, the concierge will sign for ...
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Friday, March 03, 2017

"It doesn't matter as long as people can understand you"

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There are people who say that it shouldn't matter whether something is written properly as long as the audience understands it. I...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

How Reitman's lost my loyalty and broke my heart

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I have had brand loyalty to Reitmans for my entire adult life, ever since I discovered their Comfort Fit pants.  These are these only pants ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Books read in February 2017

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 New: 1. Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel 2. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America ...

Things They Almost Invented: pre-sliced frozen pizza

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I previously came up with the idea of pre-sliced frozen pizza . You can't cut a frozen pizza, but a whole frozen pizza is more than one ...
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Monday, February 20, 2017

I would never think of borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbour. Here's why that's a good thing.

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A while back, a politician said that she moved out of Toronto because she felt it lacked community, citing as an example “ I would never go ...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Profiled

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Last spring, I experienced thigh chafing for the first time in my life. Due to my disproportionately long inseam and dislike of the curren...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

What if different kinds of lies were like apples and oranges?

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Conventional wisdom is that politicians lie. But when we say this, we usually mean "They don't keep their electoral promises....
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Monday, February 06, 2017

Things They Should Invent: platonic meetup app for women attending events alone

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Sometimes it can be logistically inconvenient to go to events alone. It can be a lot easier to go as part of a group, so you can hold each o...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

How Google can solve the "post-truth" problem in one easy step

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Google searches contain the option to refine results time posted. On the results page, click on "Tools", then click on the little ...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Advice for "Too Stressed For This" from Captain Awkward

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Hey, Captain . I’ve got a bit of a social conundrum and would appreciate any tips/scripts to help me deal with people I don’t want to tal...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Books read in January 2017

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New: 1. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin 2. Victoria by Daisy Goodwin 3. A Burglar...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

How do people on the wrong side of the confidence gap perceive other people's abilities?

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I blogged before about the notion of the confidence gap , where some people are loudly overconfident about their own abilities. I wonder h...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

A solution to the bringing kids to demonstrations dilemma

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I've always had mixed feelings about bringing children too young to develop an independent opinion on the issues to political demonstrat...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Things They Should Invent: bottled flat ginger ale

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A common home remedy for an upset stomach or nausea is to drink flat ginger ale. This is less easy than it could be, because ginger ale on...
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