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Brannocks

2008-09-08T22:13:26Z

Reading Wired Blogs's "Unsexy" category (for no other reason than I happened to notice it existed), I encountered an entry on "The Brannock Device" - the shoe-size-determiner that lurks under furniture in shoe shops. I mention it mostly for the be...

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Things I Have Recently Learned: Home Improvement Edition

2008-08-25T16:21:16Z

This weekend, I helped my father-in-law replace his broken water heater with a shiny new tankless one. This, however, has been a bit of a marathon, since it also involved building a new stud wall (to hang the new heater on), running a new gas line...

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On medal tables

2008-08-19T21:32:50Z

Great Britain is doing unexpectedly well at the Olympics, which is a pleasant surprise. The BBC has us at third in the medal table. But are we? The BBC, like many news outlets, displays the medal table sorted by number of gold medals won (with si...

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Medical Complaints I Did Not Actually Want To Know About, Number 476

2008-08-13T17:22:08Z

You can herniate your brain.

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Enioy!

2008-08-08T18:57:09Z

At work, I keep a few microwavable meals in the freezer. They're convenient, especially if I've hurried out of the house and forgotten to bring anything for lunch, and for the most part palatable. But they are, inescapably, microwavable meals. Not...

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On neologisms

2008-08-07T19:05:11Z

While writing my previous post, I strayed into the time-sink that is Wikipedia (and you know I just spent a couple of minutes reading the entry on "Time sink" there - go on, read, I'll wait) and discovered the term escribitionist, referring to one...

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Once more unto the breach

2008-08-07T18:47:02Z

We had a big thunderstorm a few weeks ago - tornado warning, hail, the works. I was sitting in a cinema at the time, watching The Dark Knight, totally oblivious to the fury outside until the power went out 15 minutes before the end of the film. Bu...

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