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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
At the Kwik-E-Mart
A short review.I thought the funny thing about the cartoon stand-ups is that while they looked pretty naff in person, they look really good in photos! Something about the flattening effect of photography. As for the rest, it was…a good try. The fact that the signature Krusty-Os and Buzz Cola were an instant sell-out (along […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Fuel to the fire
I know, you’re sick of reading about a telephone that isn’t even available in Canada. Or you have no idea what I’m talking about. After enjoying a long and pointless conversation with a good friend who is intimately involved with the mobile telephony business (he’s an iPhone skeptic; at one point he sent me a […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Bad Medicine
For some reason, I’m thinking about health care a lot these days (No, I’m fine, thank you for asking: except for needing to lose a few pounds to get to race weight, I’ve never been better). I was over hanging around Darren Barefoot’s comment on the new film Sicko. This is roughly what I said […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Phonecam zen
Not saying where I saw that one. Didn’t stay around to meet the self-deprecating driver.
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
First, do no harm
This is the post where I hope all my doctor friends don’t read my blog. Or perhaps that they do read my blog, but don’t take it personally. Colby Cosh, editorialist for the National Post, posted a little note on his blog about an outbreak of C. difficile in Quebec hospitals. That’s a classic iatrogenic […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
When Bad design attacks…poker players
This article, which I was directed to by the seriously poker-faced Terrence “Johnny” Chan, details some rather unpleasant design errors with the new cards being used in the World Series of Poker.
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
A quick heads-up
And outside, I’m watching the oddly silent sheet lightning.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Buy my Carbon or I Kill This Kitten
Somebody at work asked me about a joke I made: that I was going to turn a profit on my cycling to work by selling the carbon offsets. That led to a long digression about the nature of emissions trading and carbon offsetting (Al Gore was discussed), and I promised to write a little post […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
How to respace bicycle frames
Today’s vital new skill for you to learn is frame respacing. You do this to bike frames because, for one reason or another, frames come with a lot of different widths between the rear dropouts, and rear wheels come a lot of different widths too. Go read Sheldon’s article on this; indeed, much of what […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
You probably cannot do this on your bike
For several reasons: Remember kids, these are trained lunatics: real humans should not ride in traffic without a front brake, et cetera. But oh wow.