…and every time I touched the gas, it was like stomping on bunnies. I felt with every acceleration (injection, compression, explosion, exhaust, times six cylinders, times an average of 1500 RPM), with every act of breaking (valuable momentum converted to heat in the break pads), every turn (rubber wearing against asphalt, more momentum lost), even […]
My application to the IRS for an EIN. In Canada I would’ve spelled the last three letters of my name as “zed-ee-en.” Because I was speaking to an American operator I had to say, “zee-ee-en,” hence the confusion between “zee” and “vee.” Attention America: there is no letter or number to confuse with “zed.” You’re
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Paging through Toronto Life’s May 2011 edition I came across an interview with this guy named Ezra Levant. It’s a name I felt like I’d seen somewhere before, but I’m not a media junkie due to time constraints, so I knew nothing about him. I was fascinated though, and not in a good way. He complains
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Listening to Definitely Not the Opera today on CBC I was excited by an interview with Susan Blackmore, a UK writer and professor who began with a PhD in parapsychology and ended up, after years of experiments failed to turn up any evidence that the paranormal has any existence in reality, abandoning her field of
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How about tucking those blue rubber bands back in your bag and returning them to your pickup point? They may still have some life in ’em.
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Are bikes unreliable? I mean “1930s dustbowl junker full of starving Oakies broken down at the side of the road” unreliable, and compared to the slick, service every 60,000 km cars being made today? I’ve had two flats in the last two months, the first resulting from a complete tire failure and blowout, the second
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I’ve got bootleg Harry Potter for my Palm device. And I downloaded it free from a software pirating site on the Internet. Everyone is feeling the pull of the E. Like a huge planet, the digital format is drawing everything into its orbit: film and video, music, and of course, books. Planet E promises a
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“They are reading what they are told to read by this blurbing world. They are acting on the guidance they get. That guidance originates in a literary and literary-critical world that is amiable, bland, clubby, pious, careerist, relentlessly cheerful, desperate for numbers, suavely relativizing, and awash in worthless praise. A universe of invitations and congratulations,
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I am perpetually enraged at Toronto’s “Green Hornets,” not for ticketing those who park illegally, but for failing to do anything about vehicles stopping in no stopping zones, specifically in bike lanes. Clearly the City of Toronto considers failure to contribute to city revenue a greater offense than endangering the lives of cyclists.
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