impudent strumpet

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

Friday, June 30, 2017

Books read in June 2017

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New: 1. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard 2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by ...
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Sunday, June 25, 2017

How to set up your friends

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 From Captain Awkward : Hello Captain, My distant friend Sally and I went out to dinner and she started asking me about my past relati...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Do cell phones affect smoking rates?

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The following is (a tangent) from Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard. As usual, any typos are my own: ...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Why do politicians want people to telephone them?

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Recently, a greater than usual amount of instructions for political activism has been reaching me, and a common theme seems to be to telepho...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017

City Shoe Repair in Eglinton station has moved to 2200 Yonge St., 2nd floor

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Looking for the awesome shoe repair place that, until very recently, was in Eglinton station? They've moved to the 2nd floor of the Ca...
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Monday, June 05, 2017

Childfree for Dummies: Part VI (plus: help write the analogy!)

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Sometimes medical professionals insist on taking measure to protect the patient's fertility even when the patient is childfree and doesn...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Books read in May 2017

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New: 1. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow & Jean-BenoƮt Nadeau 2. Rogue One: A Sta...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

In which Reitman's breaks my heart again

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I blogged before about how Reitman's broke my heart by discontinuing my jeans .  Just weeks later, they've done it again. During m...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

King Charles III (and some thoughts on cultural references)

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I recently saw the movie King Charles III . The premise is that, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles ascends to the throne...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Things They Should Invent: Uber but for driving practice

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I've blogged before about the problem of driving schools being based on the assumption that you  have a car to practise in and a willing...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

The origin of mansplaining and bootstrapping?

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A while back, this story circulated where a male employee and a female employee switched email signatures on their shared inbox: Working a...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2017

It should always work this way

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@DrEricHoskins @Kathleen_Wynne Don't let this happen: https://t.co/eMciuCfD14 — impudent strumpet (@impstrump) May 2, 2017 BR...
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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