The Globe & Mail Circular Economy article was great. Second such article I read this week ( don't ask me where the first was - as your original post makes clear, forgot ).
You mention blue boxes. I was livid that the blue boxes we use for Toronto recycling were not made from recycled plastic. Duh! Those huge blue, grey/green bins ...tens or hundred thousands .. made from non recycled plastic. Couldn't vote for that government and they lost ( David Miller, from memory - again, no pun intended ).
I agree with you, and this commenter: "This is one of the best articles I have ever read in the Globe and Mail. Informative while also being witty and funny!!! I would love to read more written by this author."
"On old Olympus' Towering Tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops" is a way to remember the 12 cranial nerves. The 12 cranial nerves, in order, are olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, sensory (accessory), and hypoglossal.
The mnemonic I used in school started with the same OOOTT but the rest was different and I can’t recall it. Is there a mnemonic for remembering mnemonics?
Indigo faced ( many ) problems. Oddly, as a Canadian bookseller any future sale would have attracted federal " is it in the best interests of Canada " to allow this sale. By divesting into pillows, it became just another department store. Again - Canada used to care about asset or intellectual property sales. Heck, I remember FIRA. We may be going in that direction again. But " back in the day " bookstores were important-Indigo adopted a dry goods strategy for less scrutiny, according to reports read at that time. And, course, to woo shoppers, etc.
The Globe & Mail Circular Economy article was great. Second such article I read this week ( don't ask me where the first was - as your original post makes clear, forgot ).
You mention blue boxes. I was livid that the blue boxes we use for Toronto recycling were not made from recycled plastic. Duh! Those huge blue, grey/green bins ...tens or hundred thousands .. made from non recycled plastic. Couldn't vote for that government and they lost ( David Miller, from memory - again, no pun intended ).
I agree with you, and this commenter: "This is one of the best articles I have ever read in the Globe and Mail. Informative while also being witty and funny!!! I would love to read more written by this author."
Dear Benjamin,
Great piece!
Love this:
“My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.”
— Groucho Marx
And this:
“To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Thanks so much for sharing!
Love
Myq
"On old Olympus' Towering Tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops" is a way to remember the 12 cranial nerves. The 12 cranial nerves, in order, are olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, sensory (accessory), and hypoglossal.
The mnemonic I used in school started with the same OOOTT but the rest was different and I can’t recall it. Is there a mnemonic for remembering mnemonics?
Is Indigo actually a home goods store?
We used: "Oh, Oh, Oh to touch and feel a woman's vagina and hymen" for the cranial nerves
;)
I circled Old Olympus, which does have more poetic verve than most mnemonics, but couldn’t squeeze it in…
Indigo faced ( many ) problems. Oddly, as a Canadian bookseller any future sale would have attracted federal " is it in the best interests of Canada " to allow this sale. By divesting into pillows, it became just another department store. Again - Canada used to care about asset or intellectual property sales. Heck, I remember FIRA. We may be going in that direction again. But " back in the day " bookstores were important-Indigo adopted a dry goods strategy for less scrutiny, according to reports read at that time. And, course, to woo shoppers, etc.
Ken Whyte has nicely chronicled Indigo’s ups and downs on his Substack, and last I heard, they were actually back to books:
https://open.substack.com/pub/shush/p/who-moved-my-cheeseboard?r=457f&utm_medium=ios