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Things that don’t make sense

A co-worker recently showed me this automatic CS paper generator which seems to have been written to ridicule a make-believe academic conference. This is al...

Rank your library (not a joke)

Montréal is a fine city with generally excellent public services; the only real complaint I have so far is that people smoke in bars and restaurants, but a p...

Dinner, friends, wine

Instead of travelling home to visit family over Easter, Shannon & I stayed here and entertained Sarah, Julian, and a friend who uses computers less often...