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At our wedding 30+ years ago, I deeply regret my momentary lack of decorum in opening a gift and remarking, "oh, more towels." He graciously replied, "trust me, you can never have enough towels." He was so right. My humblest apologies, Mike.

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Hi, Black Mirror. Here to lighten the mood, I see?

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I should not be expected to have the knowledge to even understand what the various professional plumbing/heating people I hire did wrong, let alone the skill to correct it, yes?

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Don't you love it when a sequel's premise is "remember that thing they fought so hard to protect in the previous movie? Yeah, that person is dead/thing wasn't stopped."

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J. K. Rowling is really putting the "FU" in "FU money..."

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Virus scanner summary reported a negative number of threats found. Nothing unsettling about that...

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One of those "15 Things Canada Provides for Free to its Citizens" articles had to be trolling by the formatting of this one: "Public Trans portation for Seniors"

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My wife is scheduled to present at a medical conference in the US in a couple months. Given the crazy border-crossing reports, I'm relieved that her interaction with US border personnel occurs within Canadian geographic boundaries, at our local airport, prior to departure & subsequent to her return.

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Lyric pet peeves: Supertramp: "At night, when all the world's asleep..." Time zones, dude. We don't all sleep at the same time. ("The Logical Song" no less!) Corey Hart, Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer: "...then one foggy Christmas NIGHT..." Santa's starting a day late under Corey's watch. 🙃

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Random ad has on offering for "seniors born 1945-1984..." Seniors. Born in 1984. 😳

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Impressed by Cory Booker. Get the message out and displace the previous record holder with a more noble cause. (Hoping they don't try to disqualify his record on a technicality.) Morbid curiosity: gotta wonder if he's wearing an adult, tho? No disrespect. Astronauts wear diapers. To the moon, Cory!

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I have a feeling those "how was your restroom experience?" kiosks would get more engagement if they were touchless.

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Look what I found! I feel like Indiana Jones!

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Would love an explanation how the current US cabinet appointees were merit based, and yet how the various black, female, etc. historical figures removed from the various US gov't websites were determined not to have earned their honours on merit. Both positions seem equally deficient of foundation.

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My mom was born in the Dominion of Newfoundland, absorbed by Canada in 1949. No disrespect to our francophone cousins who benefited, but we know about a resource-rich soverignty being stripped to benefit others once annexed (q.v. Churchill Falls). Not happening again. April 28: Elbows up!

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Some YouTubers have a habit of editing narration between virtually every sentence, and it creates a very unnatural flow. Every sentence repeats the same rhythm of inflection, robbing the narration of an overarching flow, and the "periods" between sentences often end up disproportionately short.

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You know I may be avoiding work when I give AI these prompts, in order: "Can you restate the previous reply in a Jamaican patois?" "What is the Klingon translation of that?" "Without referencing earlier replies, translate the preceding reply back to English." Honestly, the answer was better for it

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Curious timing that the bar for articial intelligence is rising just as the bar for human intelligence is lowering.