Being that it’s a rainy day where I am right now and I’ve been meaning to do a few “Best of the 00′s” lists, when I found myself making a playlist of climate-appropriate musical selections it seemed like a good chance to collect some impressions. Starting with Badly Drawn Boy‘s Hour of the Bewilderbeast in [...]
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Continued from Insignificant Verbiage. It’s been fun the last few days, taking the position in a running office argument that “irregardless” is a word. I’m well aware that it’s ridiculous. That’s precisely why it’s so much fun. When I hear people complaining in an exaggerated way — e.g. “Ughh, I hhhate when people say that!” — my [...]
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writing
Robert Fulford’s recent column addresses a favourite topic, irritating phrases: A boss I endured in my youth told me early in our relationship that he favoured “forward planning.” His voice spoke of stern commitment to management principles. Afflicted as I was by the frightened politeness of the young, I lacked the nerve to say that [...]
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And I’m loading my laundry into two machines, using my customary system of “lights & darks” to decide which-goes-with-what — because I’ll be damned if I’m burning through, like, 1000 quarters to split everything into tiny loads of whites, colours, delicates, etc. I tend to only buy neutrally-inclined colours anyways: your beiges, your greys, and [...]
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Partially inspired by this post at Rockinon, I’m going to go opinion-free for the rest of July. I was working on a follow-up to the Gladwell post, and after several versions I really didn’t like what I was writing, nor did I like myself very much for writing it. And what would blogging be without [...]
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I left a comment on this post at the LFPress Editor’s Blog about the traffic disparity between Tori Stafford-related livestreams (up to over 5,000 viewers) and yesterday’s Beyond the Crisis panel (55 viewers — it would have been 56 if I didn’t have to work). By chance, a food metaphor popped into my head: some [...]
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by Brian on 05-18-2009
in humour
We got this on Saturday: To the entire staff of brianfrank.ca, Folks, you’re doing a great job. We aren’t quite where we need to be yet but we’re getting there. You deserve a weekend off — not this one, and not the next either — maybe some time in August — definitely at least by [...]
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