impudent strumpet

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

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Books read in April 2017

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New: 1. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 2. Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb 3. Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness by Shaw...
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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Spotted in the wild: a person who can leave the house without a plan

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I previously blogged about how baffled I am that there are apparently people who can leave the house without a plan. One of these people wa...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

How to apologize to someone you've wronged in the past and are no longer in touch with, without imposing upon them

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A recent Savage Love Letter of the Day contains a twitter thread on whether or not a man should apologize to a woman he only now realizes h...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

It seems my policy oracle is alive and well, if slower

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Five years ago I came up with a plan to cool the housing market . Today they implemented it . Ironically, this happen right after I move...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

What if there was just one chain of stores selling all clothes?

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When I was writing about the problem of sales commission, I realized that even with salespeople whose sole motivation was to help me find th...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Things that are harder to clean than their counterparts

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1. Glasses from Pearle Vision. There's a Pearle Vision right in my neighbourhood and they had frames I actually like for a price that...
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Sunday, April 02, 2017

Boys' entrance and girls' entrance

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The school in which I attended middle school was built in 1929, originally intended as a high school. It was a brick and stone building, bui...
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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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