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Author Archives: Larry Russwurm
Family Feud Super Families
It just occurred to me that perhaps the ultimate Family Feud battle could involve the Sharp family. Indeed I would probably bet on this name of family until either they lost or they ended up in a duel with the … Continue reading
Watch Those Ultimate Words
The Globe and Mail likes to think of itself as the intellectual national newspaper of Canada. I could get on board with that. Too bad it’s simply not true. Here is an article where I am quite sure their science … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Science, Wry
Tagged Canada, Canadian-led astronomy, David Dunlap Obsersvatory, dwarf planet, ever, galaxies, Ivan Semeniuk, penultimate words, Pluto, Richmond Hill, second largest telescope in the thirties, stars, supernovae in other galaxies, The Globe and Mail, Toronto
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Tom Cochrane in Inappropriate Places
There is a country music festival (the CMT Music Fest) in my city this evening. Tom Cochrane with longtime band mates Red Rider appear as what could only be described as a Sesame Street bit along the lines of One … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music
Tagged Blue Rodeo, Boy Inside the Man, Canadian acts, canadian content, CMT Music Fest, country music, Jim Cuddy, Justin Beiber, Life is a Highway, national anthem flubs, One of These Things is Not Like the Others, Q107, Red Rider, rock music, Serena Ryder, Sesame Street, Tom Cochrane, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Wavin' Flag, Young Artists for Haiti
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Forcing Justin Trudeau to Keep Power
Justin Trudeau is such a newbie to politics that he is trying his best to give his power away. His government has already signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (the TPP). How does this give his power away? Why it makes … Continue reading
I Come From a Long Line of Sons
When Quebec was being settled along the beautiful St. Lawrence River it was thought to be a shame to deny settlers the serenity of the might river. So the farms that were built were long farms, all with a small … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Mathematics
Tagged "I come from a long line of sons", a farm became so thin that a weed whacker could harvest the field, basketball line markings, early Quebec seemed like an egalitarian society, families that went to sons had to splite the homestead, farms became thin enough it only took one pass of the tractor, farms became thin enought that they were part time money makers, Max Lecoutier has the thinnest farm, nice view, Quebec, skinnier farms were the result, St. Lawrence River
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Heat Wave Snobbery
I’ve been shocked to hear The Weather Network in Canada repeating the same dogma over the last few years. That is that a heat wave is defined to be at least 3 days in a row of temperatures above 32 … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Science, Wry
Tagged 3 days of temperatures above 32 degrees Celsius, America, Arizona has dry heat, Canada, global warming, Great Lakes area has humid heat, heat wave definition, temperature differential, The Weather Network in Canada, Yellowknife should have lax heat wave standards
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Greetings From the Left End of Toronto
It’s angered me at least three times this year that Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Brantford have all been included in maps that were said to represent the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I have always felt that these cities were just … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Blackberry, Brantford, Cambridge, Central Park, GTA, GTA has 6 million people, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener, left end, left end of Toronto, maps showing the cities west of Toronto as part of the GTA, Mississauga, New York, Oracle, Silicon Valley, the Green Belt, the left end of Toronto has shy of a million people, Toronto, Waterloo
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Canada: Cheated Into Conserving in the Seventies
If you think the conservation nazis are tough these days, you must admit that they are at least trying to be honest. Previously they got their way by cheating the public in 1970s Canada. You probably have not heard even … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Social Science
Tagged 20 degrees Celsius, 70 degrees Fahrenheit, air conditioning, air conditioning destroyed the conservation gains, Canada, conservation, conservation conspiracy, conservation nazis, ecopigs, heating, massive conservation effort in seventies - lowering heating by 1 degree Celsius, math phobes, rampant consumerism, room temperature, room temperature should be 21 degrees Celsius, the 1970s, the metric system
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The Personality of Graphers
Most people will interpolate graphs. Interpolating is an educated guess saying that, with uniform points on either side, you can assume points in the middle follow the same shape which is sometimes a straight line. For instance the grid like … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Social Science
Tagged big risk takers, big risk takers are fun to watch, big risk takers get called legends if they live long enough, Bloor St., extrapolate, extrapolating is an educated guess about the extremes, graphs, interpolate, interpolating is an educated guess of what's in the middle, Keele Street, light risk takers, Steeles Ave., the blindfolded graphers are big risk takers, the cautious, those who balloon around the world, those who extrapolate are light risk takers, those who interpolate are fairly cautious, those who invest everything on penny stocks, those who sneak up on stingrays, Toronto, York University
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