03. March 2022

Automatic Word of the Day

Since 2007 I’ve been keeping up my own personal word of the day blog. I started it back in the heyday of google reader. In those days I was subscribed to several word of the day blogs and wanted to do one of my own. I’ve gone through phases of posting more and less. Some years I posted every day, and toward the late teens I had single digits of posts for several years running.

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22. February 2022

What is Canada's Largest Transitless Municipality?

Happy 2s Day.

I was chatting with my brother the other day, and he opined that I may live in Canada’s largest municipality that doesn’t have a municipal bus transit system. Of course I was interested to find out which is the biggest Canadian city without buses, so here we go.

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17. February 2022

"Infinite Word Ladder"

One of the paper handouts my child used to do at school was the “word ladder.” The exercise is a starting word and a series of instructions, with a hint/definition of the word that will be created.

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