Thursday, August 31, 2023

Books read in August 2023

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New:    1. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman   Reread:   1. Echoes ...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

Translating Good Omens subtitles: "Bildad the Shuhite! Need any shoes?"

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This post contains exactly one (1) line from Good Omens Season 2, which technically makes it a spoiler that should be tagged under the fan...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Books read in July 2023

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 New:  1. The Body under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn Reread: 1. Apprentice in Death

Good Omens subtitle translations: "They are toast: T-O-S-T...E!"

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This post contains exactly one (1) line from Good Omens Season 2, which technically makes it a spoiler that should be tagged under the fando...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Books read in June 2023

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New:  1. Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Reread:  1. Brotherhood in Death 
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Thursday, June 01, 2023

New Twitter personal best

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NBD, NBD, just Neil Gaiman taking a moment out of his busy day to personally reply to my tweet so I can make safe and informed media consump...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Things I Don't Understand: people who value health labour but don't value COVID protections

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I blogged before about the labour of health . Some people value health labour. They value doing it themselves, and/or they value being seen ...
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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Books read in April 2023

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New:   1. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott 2. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny Reread: 1. ...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Advice for the Ask A Manager letter writer who found scales in the break room

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 A while back, Ask A Manager ran a letter where someone had placed scales in the break room next to the vending machines (#4 at the link). ...
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Friday, March 31, 2023

Books read in March 2023

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 Reread: 1. Obsession in death
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Saving for a down payment is not the only barrier to housing affordability

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Discourse about homebuying affordability often focuses on saving up for a down payment - which, of course, is a major, time-consuming endeav...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Books read in February 2023

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New:   1. Maus by Art Spiegelman 2. The Neil Gaiman Reader by Neil Gaiman   Reread:   1. Festive in Death
Thursday, February 23, 2023

The need for workplace accommodations is a failure of the workplace

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In a recent Globe and Mail article : Researchers estimate that approximately one in eight Canadian women are likely suffering from an unrec...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

Advice for "Worried" in a recent Carolyn Hax column

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 From a recent Carolyn Hax : Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend loves her dog and takes extremely good care of it. I mean extremely. The dog has...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Books read in January 2023

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New:  1. Minique by Anna Maxymiw   Reread:   1. Taken in Death 2. Concealed in Death
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Cascade Complete from the grocery store is better than Cascade Complete from Amazon

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I previously tried Cascade Complete , and found it subpar and ineffective. However, I recently ran out of dishwasher detergent, and Cascade ...
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Saturday, January 07, 2023

Romance novels vs. fanfiction

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I recently saw someone on book twitter say that it's a convention of the genre that romance novels have to have a happy ending. That sur...
Wednesday, January 04, 2023

"He's an asshole but I don't remember why": a post-head-injury phenomenon

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Since my head injury, my brain behaves as though it's trying to save disk space, by deleting information it believes is no longer needed...
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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Books read in December 2022

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New:   1. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay  2. Children of Virtue and Ve...