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30
Jul
A Very Late Happy Ten Years to me
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Pictured: Me with LGW, living the good life
27
Jul
Energy Retrofit Worksheet
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As a followup to my last post, I’ve created a worksheet for folks who want to try to boil down the numbers to something easier....
02
Jan
You Don’t “Win” a Civil War
by mgmb
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So I saw this on Facebook, and it reignited my old worry about a global civil war. On its face, there’s a lovely story here...
02
Nov
Proportionality is the Point: What Democracy is Good For
by mgmb
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Democracy is not the best system to get everyone pulling in the same direction. Indeed, in our present political era we have seen it perverted...
15
May
Milestone: Putting My Darling in the Fire
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Tomorrow will mark an odd milestone for me: It’s the last day I will own strangeorder.com. The domain name is an abbreviated version of a...
22
Jan
Lies, Damn Lies, and Renovations: A Comedy of Bad Decisions
by mgmb
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Act 1: Buying a House While Stupid I got myself into a bit of trouble a few years back. I bought a house. I thought...
03
Aug
Adventures in Financial Management: The Slow Burn and the No Burn
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I’ve had RSPs in various forms since my mid-20s. I looted my first employer-matched RRSP for my ill-fated Bachelor of Fine Arts. I emptied the...
12
Mar
Cabot Strait Tunnel
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One of my personal pet notions, this one, so I like to take the chance to do the math when I can. This article mentions a...
25
Jul
Tweaking the Montezuma Theme
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The website for Gamedev NL uses a free theme, Montezuma, which is one of those old-style power user themes that lets you rewrite a lot...
06
Jun
TED Playlist: Should we redesign humans?
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Here’s the playlist. It’s hard to reconcile the world we live in with the tantalizing possibilities at the edge of human endeavour. Imagine a world,...