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Our Health is Not a Joke
Here’s the latest in this site’s rich tradition of documenting peculiar signage. This was up in the men’s bathroom of a corporate head office:
Surely there are more effective ways to get me to wash ...
13-1-2010
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The Minority Report Screen Comes to CES
The 2010 International Consumer Electronics show ended a couple of days ago. I didn’t pay much attention to all the coverage that CES received, but I did see one technology demo that was pretty cool.
Samsung has ...
12-1-2010
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Why Are We Delighted to be on the Jumbotron?
This past Satuday I went to the Canucks game–my first game in a couple of years. North American sports arenas are, of course, obsessed with distracting you at every stoppage in play. One common tactic is to show ...
11-1-2010
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On Parental Coddling
I’ve got a friend who works in the administrative department of a local arts organization. She took a call from a parent:
PARENT: Hi. My son’s class recently watched a performance at your theatre for a scho...
10-1-2010
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Four Words I Learned
I recently encountered four words that I was unfamiliar with. There were two from the November 9 issue of the New Yorker (yes, I’m very behind in my reading):
Celling: The gerund form of “to cell”, a...
6-1-2010
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My Favourite Songs of the (Previous) Decade
I know it’s January 4, and I should have pounded out this list back on December 21 or so, but what’re you going to do?
Given that the 2000’s were a decade of rap, hip hop and beat-driven pop, my favou...
5-1-2010
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Four Lovely Minutes from Essaouira
Two years ago, almost to the day, we moved from Malta and Morocco. We lived in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. We rented a lovely riad (according to Wikipedia, “a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an int...
4-1-2010
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Henrik is Way Hotter
Somebody on Twitter mentioned that “the Canucks game just got way more interesting”, so I visited TEAM 1040’s website to listen to the end of the game (it’s a pay-per-view game, so there’s...
30-12-2009
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