October 2011
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the understatement: Google's Management Doesn't... →
understatementblog:
Management caring deeply about their company’s products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday. At the other extreme, I…
September 2011
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April 2011
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Live Blogging the Debate
Come back here at 7pm tonight and follow along as I live blog the English leaders debate.
<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=d00fb3b906” _mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=d00fb3b906” >Leaders Debate...
hilarygough asked: How are the jars filling up? If you need any more reasons to add 'bad' beans to the conservative jar, I've got some good articles and comics #anythingbutHarper
March 2011
4 posts
opendaylight asked: I see you reblogged my cat post! Just thought I'd elaborate.
The reason I got her is because she's quite *anti*social (although she's 7 years old so is adequately "socialized"). With the steady addition of cats at my mother's house over the years, she only became grouchier and grouchier and was the bully of the house until a bigger bully came along. She...
The reason I got her is because she's quite *anti*social (although she's 7 years old so is adequately "socialized"). With the steady addition of cats at my mother's house over the years, she only became grouchier and grouchier and was the bully of the house until a bigger bully came along. She...
thisisfalacci asked: Thanks for following bro! Your blog provokes thought, which is rare on tumblr.
Best internet wishes!
Best internet wishes!
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Canadian Election Blog →
If you’re interested in following my thoughts in the 2011 Canadian federal election, you’re welcome to follow my political blog, Which Pill to Swallow.
January 2011
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JavaScript and Tumblr
I just realized when you click “Custom HTML” you can put whatever HTML you want on your Tumblr page, including JavaScript.
September 2010
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“I’m in my late thirties but I’m more interested in hanging out with people who...”
– Donald Miller
August 2010
3 posts
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Response to "What Our Sons See"
I read a blog called, Modestly Yours, and recently Cady posted a blog entitled What Our Sons See. With all do respect to Cady and the love she has for her son, I thought her post was a very feminine perspective of a male issue, so I wrote my own manly response to her post:
Hi Everyone! I thought I’d jump into the discussion an give a manly man’s perspective on teaching boys about...
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This is just disgusting, a CBC Radio documentary...
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What do you think about single sex education?...
Yeah I’ve read both “Girls on the Edge,” and “Boys Adrift” by Leonard Sax and agree with a lot of his arguments for single sex education.
One of them that I found neat was how if you change the way you teach certain subjects, his example was physics, to appeal to gender differences, then girls can do a lot better in the subject. The way we normally teach physics...
July 2010
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Excess TV, gaming tied to poor attention in kids -... →
Not that I am in anyway an advocate of video games, I thought I should point out the flaw in blindly believing stats. While this study suggests that kids who spend more than 2 hours playing videos games are more likely to have attention problems, it may also be possible that kids who have attention problems are more likely to play video games.
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s...
June 2010
3 posts
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Failure To Launch or Just Crashing?
I finished reading Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax. Both Girls On The Edge and Boys Adrift were good reads. I thought Girls On The Edge was a bit better, but maybe I’m a bit biased because I’m a guy and we’re boring—Girls On The Edge seemed to have more content. But both were good reads!
In Boys Adrift Sax uses the movie Failure To Launch as the model of boys who don’t...
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“Not all traditional gender roles deserve to be condemned as gender stereotypes....”
– Leonard Sax, Boys Adrift
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“You can’t change a bully into a flower child. But you can change him into...”
– Quote taken from Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax
May 2010
22 posts
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Children 'more likely to own a mobile phone than a... →
(via unburyingthelead)
Does this mean we need to put books on mobile phones?
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the secrets we all keep: Crumpling. →
I stumbled on this post by a4d4 and had a few thoughts of my own to share about it.
The past two days have been hectic and I’m trying to find out where to start. I suppose I’ll start from the beginning of it all; the reason why I decided to start this blog.
Chad* and I have been together for almost four years now and for the most part, our relationship is average. In the beginning it was...
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plumspottiespronouns:
I’m supposed to start...
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Comments on Tumblr
I was starting to get frustrated with Tumblr’s lack of comments on a lot of posts, but then I realized that you can just hit “Reblog” and type in your own comments on a particular post. I guess that works.
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nuditynotprudity-deactivated201 asked: Re:
"Due to various biological reasons related to how differently the male and female brain is wired, it is much easier for girls to answer this question."
What are these wiring differences you've so definitively concluded as being the cause for boy's difficulty answering this question? Isn't it just as likely the differences (causing the difficulty)...
"Due to various biological reasons related to how differently the male and female brain is wired, it is much easier for girls to answer this question."
What are these wiring differences you've so definitively concluded as being the cause for boy's difficulty answering this question? Isn't it just as likely the differences (causing the difficulty)...
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“I’m free! My efforts won’t influence my rewards!”
– Wally from Dilbert
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Boys Adrift
The chapter I have just read from Boys Adrift talks about how education today is very discriminating towards boys. After reflecting on my own experience in the public education system, I think I agree.
To use an example from the book, students are often given assignments such as this:
Piggy from Lord of the Flies was the victim of bullying. Describe how you would feel if you were Piggy.
This...
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“…femininity and masculinity are independent of one another, and different...”
– Leonard Sax, Girls On The Edge
YouTube Not Profitable Articles
I am always amused by articles that claim YouTube is not profitable and is loosing money. They always fail to mention that Google, who own’s YouTube, does not publish financial data related to YouTube for competitive reasons. All the YouTube is loosing money claims are analysts guesses. For all we know YouTube could be extremely profitable.
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“Not so with girls. If the teacher cares about each girl as a person and truly...”
– Leonard Sax, Girls On The Edge
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Social Media Apps Don’t Belong In The Cloud →
I’m listening to Leo Laporte on live.twit.tv during a taping of TWiG (I think), and they are discussing Facebook’s recent privacy issues. It’s funny because they won’t admit the real…
Facebook Usage in News Reports →
I have been blogging about the news media’s usage of Facebook profile pages in news reports for a while now. I think this is an issue that is ironically overlooked by the media when…
Multiplexes and Luxury Condos →
On Thursday, The City of Thunder Bay held their first public session on the possible construction of a multiplex facility. I have really been on the city’s case about this, not because…
Sex, Booze and Facebook →
I came across this interview recently in Maclean’s with Leonard Sax on his new book, Girls on the Edge. There are many interesting thoughts that Leonard shares in the…
Kobo Reader →
I’m a little slow at posting this review, but on Saturday I picked up a Kobo Reader. Previously I had a Sony eReader, and was curious about the Kobo, so I picked one up. I gave my Sony…
Giving ping.fm a spin to see if I like it or not.
April 2010
2 posts
WatchHere’s why I don’t mind the term childish.
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Paid Themes
The paid Tumblr themes are pretty nice. That was one of my biggest complaints about Tumblr. But I’m not really sure if I’ll use Tumblr enough to justify buying one.