Monthly Archives: October 2008

The presidential election should be treated as a game of Hex, using the map of the lower 48 as the board. The one problem with this is that the player seeking the north/south connection has an advantage over the east/west … Continue reading →

The caption for a photo in the Toronto Star: Jim Flaherty got into a political hissing match with Ontario Isn’t that usually abbreviated as “p’issing match”?

I miss the word “failure”. It was a fixture in the vernacular of my youth, by which I mean the social circles that I moved in as an undergraduate; the full phrase took the form “failure to X”, sometimes followed … Continue reading →

There’s a guy from the phone company in my basement right now, installing the various folderol necessary for my incipient transition to fibre-optics-based service (“FiOS”, to use the brand name). It feels a little weird, because it’s really quite rare … Continue reading →