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flick: idiocracy
I jumped on the bandwagon and last night I watched a flick I haven’t seen in almost twenty years: Idocracy. And, boy, does that hit differently these days. You’ve seen the meme shitposting, no doubt. “Idocracy wasn’t an instruction manual, guys!” At least people are screaming it into the void on my social feeds as…
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undeleted
To be fair, I didn’t actually read the article. In these days of click-bait headlines it is equally likely that any given bit of tripe posted in traditional media is some too-clever journalist writing a bit of sarcastic parody humor prefixed by an all-too-clever title to draw in the crowds who are almost certainly looking…
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blog-iversary
This coming Sunday, April 20th 2025, marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of my first blog post. You can’t even read it. I can. I mean, I have an archive of it somewhere in a document, stored away safely on multiple hard drives and backed up to the cloud and generally tucked away for some future time…
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One Million
Call it civic pride or call it mathematical curiosity, either way the latest census data for Canada was released this week and my city officially recorded one million residents for the first time in history. One million. That’s a lot of neighbours, most of whom I’ll probably never ever meet. A great big crowd, busy…
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Don’t Take Participation for Granted
You can read these words. You have access to knowledge unknown and unfathomable to any generation before you. You are online, connected, exploring big ideas and complex thoughts. Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021. I restarted blogging at the beginning of 2021 after a fairly long absence from the sport. I put…