O Canuckistan day one: the tiresome edition
Our goal: circumnavigate (circumambulate, circummotorate, whatever) Lake Ontario. Special K would fly into Buffalo, I would pick him up in the mighty Scion, and we would hit Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,...
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According to Special K, one should play to one's strengths when traveling. Our strengths, according to him, are eating amazing food and critiquing museum curation. We played to them hard. [Our other...
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sixty-five dollars later
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you move, you have to get rid of at least a few of your books. I am getting rid of seven bags full. Actually, I had seven bags, and now I have five...
View Articleit's a hot, hot, hot, hot coffee
I've been watching documentaries on Netflix lately, and the other night I watched Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee, which was blurbed as being about the McDonald's hot-coffee lawsuit.The fact is, I am...
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Ruby Goldberg
Everybody's seen the GoldieBlox commercial with the three little girls and the Rube Goldberg device, right?It's a good ad. But it's not a great ad, because the machine has at least two flaws in it.A...
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Ruby Goldberg
Everybody's seen the GoldieBlox commercial with the three little girls and the Rube Goldberg device, right?It's a good ad. But it's not a great ad, because the machine has at least two flaws in it.A...
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