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Category Archives: Humour
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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The Answer to Toronto’s Condo Wall
A wall of condos and other high rises presently blocks part of the waterfront from the rest of Toronto. Real Estate is location, location, location and the waterfront is part of Toronto’s downtown area. There is money to be made … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged board walk, condos, downtown Toronto, Front St., Hamilton, high rises, infilling, Lake Ontario, Lake Shore Blvd., Queen's Quay, real estate, the future of Toronto is St. Catharine's, Toronto, Toronto's waterfront, towers, wall of condos
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Bill C51 as a Verb
For allowing Bill C51 to rule the land I would like to do things to the right honourable Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper. If I could do anything to the pair, I would turn Harper into a rat. Let’s see … Continue reading
Assigning IQs to Freud and Jung
Psychology has taken to assigning IQs to people who have never taken IQ tests. Einstein only garners an IQ of 160, thus we have to put up with an article every week that declares a kid “smarter than Einstein”. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science, Social Science
Tagged according to me Freud's IQ is about 33, according to me Jung has an IQ of 14, Carl Jung, Einstein has been said to only have an IQ of 160, Einstein never took an IQ test, Freud obsessed with sex, Freud's greatest work may be The Interpretation of Dreams, Intelligence Quotient, IQ, IQ is mental age over real age times 100, Jung was best known for his archetypes, psychology, Sigmund Freud
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All Alien Spaceships
What can we say about alien spaceships that hasn’t already been speculated on? Well I just noticed two things that are the same with all alien encounters that are depicted on the screen. The aliens always have lights and some … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged "aliens" might be getting rid of cancerous polyps, alien abductees, alien spaceships are lit up and windy, aliens, anal probes, colonoscopy, government helicopters, is government too benevolent, spaceships, stealth helicopters are relatively silent, stealth planes are invisible to radar, UFOs
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More Bad News for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Well actually the man is dead so it’s not that bad of news. I am just bothering to get around to attacking the foundations of his Tarzan series of books. Not because they are bad writing (although coincidences do abound … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged babies raised by animals, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Greystoke, human babies can't cling as well as ape babies, human babies cry too loud and too long, indigenous people of africa a lot like Tarzan, John Carter, Mars life is very small if real, Pelucidar, raised by apes, raised by wolves, Romulus and Remus, Tarzan, Tarzan yell likely to get a child Tarzan killed
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Superior to Superior
[Most of this post’s ideas are from Wikipedia’s stats about the largest lakes in the world. I was unaware of many of these comparisons until the last decade so I bring them here to you as many more people might … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour
Tagged Canada, Caspian Lake, Caspian Lake is bigger in area than all the great lakes put together, Caspian Lake is deeper than Lake Superior too, Caspian Sea, European settlers gave Lake Superior its name, Lake Baikal contains more water by volume than all the great lakes combined, Lake Huron, Lake Huron-Michigan, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Superior is the fourth largest lake by volume, Lake Superior is the third largest lake by area, Lake Tanganyika contains more water than Lake Superior, Lake Victoria, the great lakes, USA
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