impudent strumpet

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Friday, August 31, 2018

Books read in August 2018

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New: 1. The Hard Way Out: My Life with the Hells Angels and Why I Turned Against Them by Dave Atwell with Jerry Langton 2. Cringeworthy: ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Things They Should Invent: clothing characteristic search engine

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Clothing geeks have a lot of nuanced opinions about which design features you should look for in clothing.  They'll mention things like ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The first shapes

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Circle, square, triangle, rectangle. Shapes are an extremely basic thing taught to toddlers, alongside letters and numbers and colours and a...
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

In which my brain writes antagonist-POV advice column fanfiction

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What Happened to Us? I have a good friend who lives in my town. I’m not sure why, but we became estranged. She just stopped talking to m...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

The Dyslexie font helps me read with convergence and accommodative insufficiency resulting from head trauma

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The biggest problem with the visual issues that came with my head injury (for the googlers: my diagnosis was convergence insufficiency and ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Young Sheldon

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The interesting thing about Young Sheldon is it hardly ever makes me laugh, but is still very effective. Each episode is a gentle, heartwa...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Unwanted "healing"

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A couple of years ago, my brain started doing that old-lady thing of accidentally calling people by the wrong name . One of the most unexp...
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Monday, August 06, 2018

Civic Holiday should be Emancipation Day

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I'm 37 years old, I've lived in Ontario my entire life, and it's only this year that I learned a) August 1 is Emancipation Day ,...
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Sunday, August 05, 2018

Things They Should Invent: legally binding #StealThisIdea

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TV writers on Twitter keep telling people not to tweet show ideas at them.  Apparently if you tweet an idea at them, they're not allowed...
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Saturday, August 04, 2018

Things They Should Study (or publicize, if they've already studied it): to what extent do social programs make life easier for employers?

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I am truly terrible at washing my windows.  Every time I wash them, they end up covered in streaks - basically I'm just rearranging the ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Books read in July 2018

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New: 1. Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell 2. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson 3. Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman 4. ...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Do culture that value biological paternity produce more people who don't want children?

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Today's post was inspired by this Scandinavia and the World comic: The post under the comic : Something that was deeply offensive ...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Tax dollars vs. library books: a personal cost-benefit analysis

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The City of Toronto's 2017 tax-supported operating budget was $10.5 billion. The Toronto Public Library's 2017 operating budget ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018

What do you think of the body text colour?

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I tweaked the body text of my blog in an attempt to make it more readable.  I'm not sure if I've succeeded. This is the place to s...
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Friday, July 20, 2018

So it turns out I'm not an alcoholic

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You aren't supposed to drink when you have a head injury . I didn't have any bottles in the house the day I hit my head, so it was a...
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Monday, July 16, 2018

Let's talk about sex (in 1998), baby!

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In the wake of the Ontario government's shameful decision to revert to the 1998 sex ed curriculum, many people have already commented on...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

What if Star Trek: Discovery could desexualize the miniskirt uniform?

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I recently saw an article saying that Star Trek: Discovery should use unisex miniskirt uniforms .  The article quoted Nichelle Nichols: “T...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2018

What if construction workers weren't even allowed on construction sites during quiet hours?

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The most frustrating thing about all the construction near me is the frequency with which they wake me up by starting work early. City of To...
Monday, July 02, 2018

A new colour

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A common thought experiment is "imagine a new colour", i.e. a colour that no one has ever seen before. But that must have been a...
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