impudent strumpet

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

Monday, October 31, 2022

Books read in October 2022

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New:   1.  Working with Difficult People: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing your Mind by Amy Cooper Hakim and Muriel S...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

In which I do unspeakable things to sushi

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As I've blogged about before, spicy food doesn't work for me . It's physically painful in a way that drowns out the underlying f...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Things that are getting worse

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A strong narrative early in the pandemic was also if we do the right things, we'll be okay. Mask up, stay home, be kind, we'll get t...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

Books read in September 2022

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New:   1. Dancing Through the Snow by Jean Little 2. City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis & Vivian Truong 3. In the Silh...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Books read in August 2022

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New:   1. How To: Absurd Scientific Solutions for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe 2. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 3. P...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

Defining the intersection of walkable and accessible

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I keep running up against the problem of not being able to find a good word for the overlap between "walkable" and "accessib...
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Monday, August 08, 2022

How the universe is mocking me

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From time to time, charities I've donated to send me a fundraising letter with a small free gift, in an attempt to entice me to donate m...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Books read in July 2022

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New:   1. When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson 2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell   Reread:   1. Indulgence ...
Friday, July 15, 2022

How to get people to have more children

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Recently in the news: a proposal to tax the childless in order to incentivize people to have children .    That will never work.   Here ar...
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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Books read in June 2022

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New:  1. The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson 2. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter Rerea...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Things They Should Invent: kitchen catchers shaped like grocery bags

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As I've mentioned before, I routinely use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags. However, as I've been streamlining my shopping durin...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Not that there's anything wrong with that

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The other day I saw someone tweet that cis Gen Xers need to talk more about how homophobic society in general was in the 80s and 90s. So my ...
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Monday, June 20, 2022

The Boy Who Cried "No Wolf!"

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I was talking to my doctor about the risk assessment of getting dental care (given that I'd need to remove my mask to do so), and he sai...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Cause and effect

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In 2009, City of Toronto workers, including garbage collectors, went on strike because the employer was trying to take away their sick days ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Books read in May 2022

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New:   1. The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman 2. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

The generic "you" is a useful tool for writing inclusively

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With reproductive health in the news lately, I'm seeing a lot of people diligently endeavouring to make their statements about bodies an...
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I collect languages, give away free ideas, and construct precision analogies.
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