impudent strumpet

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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Books read in June 2018

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New: 1. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery 2. ...

A story for Pride month

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When Fairy Goddaughter was about to turn 5, her parents mentioned to me that they wanted to introduce her to social issues (but hadn't g...
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Sunday, June 24, 2018

The logistics of being rich

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When you go through customs, they ask you if you packed your baggage yourself. But very rich people probably don't - they probably hav...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Things They Should Invent: replace emergency room waiting rooms with beds

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I previously came up with the idea that emergency room waiting rooms should be sleepable . After having been to the emergency room myself ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Things They Should Invent: paper shredders with multiple plastic bags

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Some recycling providers want you to put shredded paper in plastic bags. Special plastic bags are in fact manufactured for this purpose, d...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Post-election roundup

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Twitter: I was pleased that my candidates weren't bickering on Twitter this time around. In previous years I've felt like a kid st...
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Thursday, June 07, 2018

Voted

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Beautiful, fresh, breezy weather. Black, white and purple outfit, with my late grandmother's jewellery (she always emphasized how impo...
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Voters' Resources (Ontario 2018 edition)

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This is a postdated post and will be at the top of my blog until Election Day. If Election Day has not yet passed, there might be new posts ...

Why this election surprises me

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1. I'm surprised how strong the "there are no good choices" narrative seems to be this election. The available choices seem to...
Friday, June 01, 2018

How to ethically dispose of vintage pornography

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From the Ethicist : A female friend says she is planning to sell her late husband’s vintage collection of Playboy magazines, which she sa...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Books read in May 2018

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New: 1. Dark in Death by J.D. Robb 2. A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne 3. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dicken...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

How to make Google News RSS feeds once again work in The Old Reader

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A couple of days ago, I noticed that my Google News RSS feeds in The Old Reader weren't working properly. The feed was getting served up...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Does good vision care insurance even exist?

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I want to get vision therapy for my post-head-injury vision issues. It isn't covered by OHIP and apparently it's expensive, so I sta...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Why I'm not happy with the Weather Network latest website redesign

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Weather Network 7-day forecast The default page for each city is the 7-day forecast, shown to the right. (Click to embiggen. The long ...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

How to Vote Strategically

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This post is part Voters' Resources post . It, and the rest of the series, will be updated as appropriate between now and election day...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Things They Should Invent: customize the user-facing appearance of Word without changing documents' appearance

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As I'm dealing with vision issues resulting from my head injury, I've been contemplating whether changes to the appearance of my com...
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Where to Vote

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This post is part of my community where they go to school or living at the location of a temporary summer job) are in a situation where t...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Things They Should Invent: Transitions lenses with manual override

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Transitions lenses are those eyeglass lenses that automatically darken when exposed to bright light and then turn clear again under normal l...
Friday, May 11, 2018

How to Vote

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This post is part of my Voters' Resources post . It, and the rest of the series, will be updated as appropriate between now and electio...
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