May 2013
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FaceTime with my Father
Son: I'll be sure to replace the leaky hot water tank this weekend. Thanks for your help!
Dad: You need to shave. You look really ugly.
April 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
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The Poor Man's Bucket List
With the New Year afoot, we often feel compelled to make significant changes to our lives, to capitalize on an opportunity that presents itself now that the Christmas cookies have gone and the snow is solid. Few things impress me more than the people who can make such drastic rearrangements and actually see them through. Perhaps I’m not comfortable with that sort of commitment, or maybe I’ve found...
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October 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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The Short and Long Term Effects of Doublebooking
Saying yes to everything has been my conscious effort to open up to new opportunities and actualize intentions I would have ordinarily put off or have been too lazy to get to. It exposed me to new concepts of art, media, and consumption and even inspired better working and eating habits along the way (the trick is to do more of one than the other). Through all the introductions, I felt it feed and...
June 2012
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May 2012
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April 2012
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Monday Morning Rant: Social Media
Remember when Facebook was about posting on someone’s wall? When we would take time to write him or her because we missed them or because we wanted to tell them how much fun we had at that party?
It seems that all it’s good for now is self-promotion; “sharing” photos of where we’ve been and what we’ve seen, not whom we were with or what we were doing there. Tagging our friends in...
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Monday Morning Rant: Bixi
These past three years, I’ve gotten around Montreal with little more than a bus pass and a Bixi key but, last summer, when 15 noticed the black and red-trimmed plastic dangling from my keychain, he couldn’t help but shake his head, almost in disgust, at the fact that I supported the bicycle sharing system. Why not? I responded. And what followed was a brief but insightful debate about the whole...
March 2012
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10 Digital Signs That Your Relationship Is Over
With a constant flux of media running our lives, it’s important that we be able to pick up on the digital hints our friends will leave us every now and then. Obviously, by friends, I mean friends of friends, or coworkers, or hot people you meet at barbecues, not actual friends of course. The point is that you should actively draw a line that divides the unavailable from the unwilling. This...
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February 2012
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January 2012
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10 Realistic Resolutions for 2012
Because going to the gym every day and volunteering at the neighbourhood shelter are commitments I may just pass up if you offer me a pint of anything. Baby steps, kid. Baby steps. 1. WEAR A HAT WHEN IT’S COLD OUT.
My head’s pretty big so when I wear a hat, a tuque specifically, it accentuates the circumference of my skull. Also, I’ve usually got product in my hair so putting a...
December 2011
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Why Wednesday: Habs
Why must the Habs have a French speaking coach?
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Why Wednesday: Escalators
Why do people just stand on the left side of the escalator?
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Why Wednesday: Reply-All
Why do coworkers continue to hit Reply-All when all they really want is an e-mail from their actual friends?
