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Dave Wilton

28 Jul 2025 • 2 min read
A statue of gnome with a tool slung over his shoulder, nestled among some flowers
A garden gnome

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1985 Tennessee license plate with the motto “Volunteer State”
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voluntary / volunteer (paid)

26 Dec 2025 3 min read
breaking bad

breaking bad

26 December The popular US television show Breaking Bad (2008–13) is about a high-school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who, after being diagnosed with lung cancer and with the assistance of an ex-student turned failed drug dealer, begins to cook and sell crystal meth. While the show has been popular
26 Dec 2025 3 min read
Photo of a young boy raising his hand in class

keener

Having been born and raised in the United States, I was unaware of the slang noun keener until I came to the University of Toronto. Keener is used to denote enthusiastic and over-eager students and is mildly derogatory. One hears instructors uttering phrases like “I assigned extra reading, knowing that
24 Dec 2025 2 min read
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