impudent strumpet

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

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Books read in August 2025

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 Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
Sunday, August 24, 2025

The first soil

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If you're going to grow some potted plants or a garden, you need soil.   Not dirt, soil.   It is possible that the soil in your yard mig...
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Monday, August 18, 2025

Steal This Idea: stealth crossover mystery

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Two or more TV shows (or other works of fiction) are set in the same location at the same time, with different, unaffiliated characters solv...
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Sunday, August 03, 2025

Journalism Wanted: if you evacuate a plane and leave your belongings behind, what happens next?

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If you're on a plane that crashes and you have to evacuate, you're supposed to leave your belongings behind. And every time there is...
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Saturday, August 02, 2025

Discoverability is not morally neutral

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I tend to learn about books/TV series/other creative works because I've seen it around, people are talking about it, it seems vaguely in...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Books read in May 2025

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 The Wife App by Carolyn Mackler
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Books read in April 2025

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1. Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nora Loreto 2. Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Books read in March 2025

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 1. Passions in Death by J.D. Robb
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Bring back the Canada Post Comparison Shopper to help Canadians buy Canadian

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In 2010, Canada Post introduced a tool called the Canada Post Comparison Shopper, which let you compare prices and shipping costs from a hug...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Books read in February 2024

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1. Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 2 2. Random in Death by J.D. Robb
Saturday, February 08, 2025

Things They Should Invent: Canadian (or non-US) equivalent of Consumer Reports

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I value buying and using quality products, so when I'm shopping for a new product category, I regularly search sources that provide obje...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Books read in January 2024

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1. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould 2. Payback in Death by J.D. Robb
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

We need a way to respond to intimate partner violence that doesn't create a burden for victims

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A recent Ask A Manager letter : A couple of days ago, I was walking my normally well-behaved large dogs when another dog charged them, unp...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Books read in December 2024

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1. Encore in Death by J.D. Robb 2. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Horoscopes

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Today I am 44, which is significant because I started working as a translator at 22. Even though my birthday horoscopes stopped being accura...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Books read in November 2024

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1. Children of the Fox by Kevin Sands 2. Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Books read in October 2024

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 1. Abandoned in Death by J.D. Robb
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Things They Should Invent: handyman service as a condo amenity

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One benefit of living in a well-run rental apartment building is the on-site superintendent handles home repairs for you. However, in a cond...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The first arch

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There's a conspiracy theory that aliens taught humans to build pyramids, but I find that unlikely,  because making a big pile of rocks t...
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