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Monthly Archives: August 2018
I Am Not ImPresto
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said that as of August 16, people could no longer buy Go Transit tickets at the ticket booth at the bus terminal. Now, you had to pay the driver in cash or Presto card. I thought that maybe the most sensible thing to do would …
A Mini Documentary On Nebraska’s Disaster Of A Safe Haven Law
I happened to catch an episode of CBC’s Out in the Open over the weekend. It was all about unintended consequences and people’s reactions to them. There were some rather interesting stories, but one in particular very much caught my ear. They spent about 15 minutes on the State of Nebraska’s attempt at a safe …
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Some Little Kid Memories Of Nikolai Volkoff
There haven’t been as many So Long posts lately as there used to be, and that’s intentional. To be quite honest, I don’t particularly enjoy writing them. Some folks, even when you appreciate whatever it was they did, just don’t inspire a whole lot of words or draw out much in the way of specific …
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If English Were Phonetically Consistent
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said that English is a frustrating, nonsensical language where rules matter until they don’t and that it could seriously due with some consistency. But what if we actually had some of that consistency? English would sound like it, German and Swedish had a drunken, baby makin’ 3-way, …
Yes, Things Have Been Quiet, But That’s Only Because We Were Off Learning That Siri Existed 30 Years Ago
Well hello there! Yes, both we and the site do, in fact, still exist. Things have just been quiet the last little bit because it’s summer and that tends to be how things roll around here regardless of intent. Usually you all have the same idea as us, but for some reason numbers haven’t fallen …