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99 Problems But a Fish Ain't One
Yesterday I saw a turtle squashed in the middle of the road. It’s not something you see every day in downtown London, so I figure it was an omen that it would be one of those days when everything that could go wrong would go wrong. My first of two thesis defenses was scheduled for…
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Book Review: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
You could describe Ender’s Game as Harry Potter in space. It’d be a pretty shitty way of describing it, since Ender came long before Harry , but the similarities are there. We’ve got a school full of kids who are special, an upcoming war, a sport that involves flying around and reaching a goal, and…
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Me in Maclean's, + Wrinkly Nuts
Sooo there’s an article about me in Maclean’s Magazine (April 12th issue, page 62). It goes like so: Plain old coffee can be boring, so Mike “Phronk” [my last name] of London, Ont., likes to put “weird things” in his (he keeps a blog about it). [etc.] Conspicuously absent? The address of said blog. I…
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