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Friday, July 31, 2020

Books read in July 2020

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New: 1. The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life Edited by John Lorinc, Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, and Tatum Taylor ...
Friday, July 03, 2020

Things They Should Invent: grocery pickup edition

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1. Mark items as "essential" The first time I tried grocery pickup (in this case, PC Express at Loblaws), I was making the purch...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

The mystery of the disappearing desks

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I blogged before about how people keep saying "things you have around the house" for things that I don't have around the house...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Books read in June 2020

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New: 1. A Better Man by Louise Penny 2. Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James Reread: 1. Purity in death
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Flaws in my education: treating anti-racism readings like any other literature

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I blogged before about how the books used in the anti-racism unit in my Grade 9 English class didn't serve us well . Another aspect th...
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Sanditon fanfic bunny, free for the taking: "I Will Toil and You Can Blossom"

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This post is a full spoiler zone for the Sanditon miniseries. I recently finished the Sanditon miniseries, and was pleased to see that my ...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Flaws in my education: using non-contemporary readings for anti-racism

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In Grade 9, we had an anti-racism unit in English class.  Works studied included To Kill A Mockingbird, Black Like Me, and Martin Luther Kin...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

O'Keeffe's Working Hands: a hand cream like any other

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With all the extra pandemic handwashing, I needed to level up my hand cream game, so I decided to try O'Keeffe's Working Hands, whic...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Flaws in my Education: "You should speak up and contribute!"

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I was identified as gifted when I was in Grade 5, which meant every year I'd get an IPRC, where I'd meet with my parents and the res...
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Sunday, June 07, 2020

Things They Should Invent: express elevators for the pandemic

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Most people in my building seem to be voluntarily abiding by a one person/household per elevator rule. I do this myself. I live in the lower...
Friday, June 05, 2020

The best things in life and the worst things in life

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The April 26 Frazz comic : Caulfield: A few weeks ago, you were all but howling at the full moon. Frazz: Beautiful! Enormous, razor sha...
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Thursday, June 04, 2020

New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition XIV

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19. If you're giving advice on how to make or fix something, and you say you can do it with "things you have around the house"...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Pandemic, scarcity, and frugality

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One of fate's running jokes during this pandemic is that my stuff keeps breaking. There's a sizeable rip in my winter coat that...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Having an unsophisticated palate is convenient

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One thing that people have judged me for my entire adult life is having an unsophisticated palate. For many kinds of food, I'm perfectly...
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Monday, June 01, 2020

Analogy for app-only

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An unfortunate trend that has emerged in the past decade or so is "app-only" - i.e. requiring a purpose-built app on a mobile devi...
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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Books read in May 2020

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Reread: 1. Reunion in Death
Friday, May 29, 2020

Top 10 petty things I hope come out of the pandemic

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Many, many people who are smarter than me have commented on major policy and social changes that they hope come out of the pandemic - a robu...
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Friday, May 22, 2020

Things They Should Invent: pandemic shopping edition

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1. Glassdoor for the pandemic With some jurisdictions permitting businesses to reopen, I wonder whether the employees of those businesses ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

Things They Should Invent: tell everyone what information contact tracers need

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In this pandemic, we're hearing a lot about contact tracing. We're hearing a lot about how it's a time-intensive and labour-inte...
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