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The Phantom Menace: Don't start with background

  Title: A proposal to supply Acme Corp. with Blagfly Macroscopic Flange  Background: In 20187, Ignati and Wilhelmina Lightblack noticed the diminishing return on investment of industrial-size household powersource applications for lightsabres. The siblings engaged upon a ten-year research project into the optimal application of flange technology in lightsabres. A side enquiry into the efficiency […]

Words of the election season: breaking the logical loop

This blog was originally published a year ago, as the oil bubble is deflated. I have updated it in the context of the current election campaigns going strong in Canada and the US. The bubble blows It seems that everyone, including economists and political leaders, need to be reminded of the definition of bubble regularly, […]

Stop with the phoney, cheesy Christmas music, already! It’s barely November, not even Remembrance Day/Memorial Day yet, and already the stores are playing awful, tinny “XMas” tunes in an effort to make me buy junk. I can understand that retailers are trying to encourage people to buy early. From what I understand, the average retailer […]