Tadaaaaa, now you know why it’s been awhile since we’ve posted! We’ve just changed blog software from Movable Type to WordPress, in part to try to better combat the comment spam we’ve been getting; though to be fair, we haven’t actually gotten that much comment spam for the last little while. It took a while …
Category Archive: Thoughts & Musings
Aug
15
Jun
28
Tax Freedom day is a sham
A lovely brick-by-brick demolition of the Fraser Institute’s Tax Freedom Day by Neil Brooks and Linda McQuaig
Jun
25
Apt
Jon got to try out an iPod for the first time the other day. He had no idea what it was and got quite rigid with fear when we inserted the earbuds and encouraged him to hit the centre button. After some convincing he clicked it on, jumped when the tunes started, then slowly broke …
Jun
10
Visions of our Future
The Toronto Star has the first of three-part series on the transition from school to adult life for developmentally delayed kids/adults. It’s probably not a surprise that the support system drops off a cliff after school is over. It’s tough to think about, but that is likely where we’ll be in 10 or 12 years… …
Dec
22
Passover Effect
This week, two Ohio State University researchers published an enormous study that refutes the commonly-held belief that terminally-ill people can will themselves to live until significant dates (eg birthdays, Christmas, etc) have passed. This is known as the Passover effect (due to one study involving observant Jews over the high religious holidays) and has been …
Dec
20
Blog spam make Peter-Hulk angry
Grrr. A very odd event, but the second time it has happened: I was deleting a spam comment to this post, and when I rebuilt it had become the message!! The original message is gone. Not that it was much of a message. The first time it happened we thought it was an accident (hence …
Dec
02
iTunes (Corollary)
The previous post – plus the disappointing fact that the iTunes store caters best to top-40-type tastes – got me thinking: what is the epitome of the perfect pop song? One of those confections that buries itself in your brain, probably boppy, probably short? Nothing deep or profound here, we’re talking pop! I remember a radio interview …