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10 Years in the USA: Looking Back
10 years ago today, my family and I drove across the border, leaving our life in Canada behind and embarking on a new adventure: working and living in the United States of America. It’s gone by so...
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T-Mobile 5G Home Internet: A Complete Failure [Part 1]
The headline already tells you where this is going, but come with me on an August 2021 journey that started with hope and ended in despair. By way of background, I have two choices for home internet...
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Moka the Friar
After much spiritual searching, my dog Moka has decided to begin her monastic life: I present to you Friar Moka. (I don’t tend to post things like this often, but putting a little joy into the world...
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It’s the guns. It’s *always* the guns.
Here we go again. Another day in America, another mass shooting. Below is something I wrote in response to a gun owner I know thinking out loud about solutions to the problem. People buy guns because...
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Apple’s M1 Max CPU: Heat, Fans, and Silicon Voodoo I Don’t Understand
My first computer with an Intel 286 processor was three decades ago, and my last was the MSI gaming laptop I split the cost of with my son featuring an Intel Core i7-11800H. In between I’ve had...
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Sometimes it’s fun to be fun on Twitter
I know that Twitter is a vile cesspool full of anger, hate, and Russian trolls stoking fear and dissolution, cracking the very fabric of our society…but sometimes it’s also a fun place to interact...
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How to fix the Tesla Text Receiving Issue
The first time my wife texted me while I was driving our new Model Y, I was baffled when, instead of the car’s text to speech software simply reading the message, it began reading me off her phone...
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Young Men are Not OK
I’ve been on a bit of an “avoid CNN” bend for a while after you-know-what, but I’m a big fan of ProfG (Scott Galloway) and this video is absolutely worth watching if you have a son, brother, or...
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Our Lady Peace: Rockin’ like it’s the ’90s
While Our Lady Peace never got that big internationally, in the ’90s they were a mainstay of Canadian rock when I was in my 20s. I had a chance to see them live last month in Calgary with a friend and...
View ArticleA quick financial tip: embrace automation
August 14th is Financial Awareness day, and unlike some of the other silly “holidays” – I bet National Left-Handed Scissors Day is on the list somewhere – financial awareness/literacy actually...
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When automated eagerness creates an inefficient mess for customers
Since I work for Amazon, you can take this whole post with a grain of salt (I’m biased toward my employer), but even still…it’s hard for an objective person to not look at this situation with Target...
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