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  • F2F & IRL, APU

    A while back I wrote about the crumbling line between the internet and “real life”. Not only have I run into 3 different Twitter-people (I refuse to say tweeple) in the last 24 hours, but check out local blogger Brian Frank’s latest post that demonstrates this perfectly. We now live in a world where two…

  • The Emotion of WTF

    WTF should be an emotion. There isn’t yet a single word for the sense of seeing something that totally boggles the mind; it’s related to confusion, but not the same thing. Confusion is aversive, while WTF leads to LOLs and a state of blissful unawareness of what’s going on. It’s more like confusion feeding into…

  • Montreal

    I’ve been spending a lot of time in Montreal lately. This past week I was there for the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Here are the highlights of the trip, none of which involved the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association.1 The titular Mount Royal. Hahahaha titular. Habitat 67 sounds like a…