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Author Archives: Nick Matthews
Kindle for Academics
Currently, no ebook reader appears to completely solve my needs. Some come close in some areas, while still making things unnecessarily complicated in the final steps of the solution. Some ebook readers, such as the Kobo, quickly fail to solve … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Reading
Tagged academic, citation, copyright, digital rights management, drm, ebook, fair dealing, fair use, kindle, kobo, literature
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Bad Commercials: I Keep Hearing It Twice
I’ve been irritated by commercials before in the past, but over the past year, I’ve become better at analyzing why certain commercials annoy me. The most recent commercial to raise my ire is one for Rogers TV. Since the primary … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisement, argumentation, commercial, lavidge, perelman, radio, reason, rhetoric, rogers tv, steiner, the new rhetoric, toulmin
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Daylight Savings Time
The DST Time change has effectively sapped me of all energy this week. I have lots of things to blog about, but they’re likely not going to happen this week. It’s 11:20PM, and I still have another 30 pages of … Continue reading
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Breakfast
Tonight I saw the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the first time. The images of Audrey Hepburn in this film have been icons in Hollywood ever since, and I think that I can understand some of this. The movie speaks … Continue reading
Penalty Boxes in Parliament But Not the NHL
First, I’m quite happy that Speaker Peter Milliken has ruled that Bev Oda breached parliamentary privilege rules in her handling of the Kairos funding. Her behaviour, and lack of contrition is deeply troubling. This ruling will send the case to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bev Oda, bob probert, concussion, KAIROS, max pacioretty, nhl, parliament, sidney crosby, suspension, zdeno chara
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Paint it Pink
I spent a good portion of the weekend priming and painting part of my daughter’s new bedroom. Here’s a tip: if you can avoid painting the inside of a closet, avoid it. They’re very small on the inside, the previous … Continue reading
Two Months In
So, I’m two months into my regular posting schedule to my blog. So far, I haven’t really been able to build up any kind of appreciable buffer. I have a couple of posts in progress, but they don’t really fit … Continue reading
Thirty Percent
As Apple has recently started selling subscription services to applications on their iOS App Store recently, renewed discussion of their business practices has hit the internet. With the rejection of Sony’s bookstore application, word is that Apple is demanding that … Continue reading
The Last Man
Mary Shelley is primarily known for writing Frankenstein (1818), and while many people think themselves familiar with the tale, their knowledge is usually based on the many play and film adaptations, rather than the original literary text. In the Billion … Continue reading
Oscars Recap
So, I did manage to watch the oscars last night. Like most television I watch, I recorded it on my PVR for later viewing. I have a few reasons for this. First, my schedule generally doesn’t match the broadcasters. Being … Continue reading
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Tagged academy awards, christian bale, kirk douglas, melissa leo, movies, oscars, pvr, shaun tan
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