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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Books read in January 2019

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New: 1. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny 2. The Asshole Survival Guide by Robert I. Sutton 3. Pikiq by Yayo  Reread: 1. Dark in ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Working 9 to 5

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It surprises me how often businesses and services that serve the public directly choose to have their operating hours Monday to Friday, 9 to...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Things They Should Invent: teach students how school norms differ from workplace/adult life norms

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I've been thinking lately about how school instills a set of norms that's different from workplace norms, and a recent Ask A Manager...
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Thursday, January 03, 2019

Things I Don't Understand: why do my thighs get colder than my calves?

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Whenever I walk around outside in cold weather, my thighs get colder than my calves. This makes no sense, because my winter coat is knee-l...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019

"Kids Today think they invented sex!"

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Sometimes people who are old enough to perceive young adults as "kids" complain that "Kids Today think they invented sex!...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Books read in December 2018

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New: 1. The Legend of Lightning & Thunder by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt 2. Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard 3. Slash by...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Metropasses

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May 2002 Metropass (source: Colnect ) I got my first Metropass in May 2002, when I was doing my internship.  I felt so glamorously adult...
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Sunday, December 23, 2018

System reboot status: December 2018

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As part of my resolution to reboot my system, I'm posting each month the top three things in my system that don't serve me well. T...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Horoscopes

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Last year was the first year when my birthday horoscopes couldn't be interpreted as reflecting reality, possibly because the head injur...
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Friday, December 21, 2018

The first swimming

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I wonder which came first: humans learning they can swim, or humans learning they can't swim? By which I mean: did some random prehist...
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Default couple genders in sketch comedy

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I'm late to the game on this, but I just started watching the Baroness Von Sketch show this season, and I'm really enjoying it. On...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2018

New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition XIII

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18. Some people have trouble coping with certain distressing possibilities, so, to get through the day, they delude themselves into thinking...
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Saturday, December 01, 2018

People who are reluctant to call landlines

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As I've blogged about before , I prefer having a landline to using a cell phone for everything. However, in recent years, I've not...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Books read in November 2018

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New: 1. Badger by Daniel Heath Justice 2. Amun - Nouvelles ed. Michel Jean 3. As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman  4. Fire So...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine braindump (full spoilers)

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Nearly a year after I started watching, and 25 years after it first started airing, I finally finished watching DS9! My immediate thoughts: ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Things They Should Invent: early releases in palliative care

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In the world of publishing, there's something called an Advance Reader Copy (ARC), which is a very limited edition of a book that comes ...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Outdoors ≠ simple

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From a recent Carolyn Hax chat : Dear Carolyn, My fiancé and I want a small, backyard wedding with about 75 guests. My grandmother has a ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Polite conversation and consent

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Reading this Ask A Manager discussion about conversation topics that are totally off-limits in the workplace, I developed a theory: The r...

Things I Don't Understand: objecting to assisted dying when you don't mind if people die

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This post was inspired by, but is not directly related to, this op-ed outlining how the new provincial government's policies could kill...
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