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  • The Mathematics of Wrong Numbers

    What is with getting calls for the wrong number? I’ve dialed a wrong number once, maybe twice in my whole life. Most people would probably claim similarly low misdial rates. I’ve received maybe 50 wrong number calls, minimum. How does this add up? It must mean there is a small number of people making a…

  • 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…

  • Freud and The World’s First Documented "That’s What She Said"

    So I was reading Freud’s book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis because I had a particularly vexing question about the practice of psychology and went straight to the best source of information. Just kidding! Freud ruined psychology. More like Sigmund Fraud! HAH! But for serious, I rescued the book from my parents’ garage sale, and…