All that is necessary for the survival of the fittest

is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar--Grace Paley

Juliet Waters

Juliet Waters
Location
Montreal, Canada
Birthday
August 01
Bio
Montreal writer, book critic, single mom, ex-Expos fan, now rooting for the Portland Seadogs. Currently working on a book about Developmental Coordination Disorder. Also learning to code. Visit me at my new blog: Familycoding.com

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Montreal Mirror Reviews
May 25, 2012 03:21PM
“Thanks Bart. I have to agree with you. These kids are sacrificing an entire school year to protest an educational system that is putting the average…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 25, 2012 11:04AM
“Funny that you should use that quote, Tom. In a late nineteenth century edition of Harper's there was an article on Montreal which stated "Montrea…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 04:28PM
“We're made of hardier stuff up here. The have been going on for three months. Plus there's no spring in Montreal. Just winter and summer.”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 02:44PM
“That's not the minister of Education Fusun. It's the schoolboard, and probably the unions. To teach in a CSDM school you have to pass a rigorous Fren…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 12:23PM
“A huge part of the mess is that the protest has been taken totally out of its historical context. Yes Quebec students pay the lowest university tuitio…”
About: Who's to Blame for the Mess in Montreal?
May 02, 2012 06:04PM
“Yeah, translation sites are still pretty awful. I live in Montreal, so I know how bad they are from French to English and vice versa. But this is differ…”
About: Bottable Stories
May 02, 2012 05:24PM
“Nick, this is amazing stuff I'm reading about the AIG sales. And by the way Steve, I wrote billion, when I meant trillion. But, yeah, I always suspe…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 03:56PM
“I wouldn't go that far. Canadian banks made a ton of money of that bailout, since it went to them for a long enough time to make a lot of interest. W…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:49PM
“Oops. Sorry that all came out as a link.... guess my programming skills still need work.”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:49PM
“Oh this brings me back to so many happy days, making fun of Tim Geithner to Saturn Smith. That said, how did Frontline get past the fact that the 7 bill…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:10PM
“Oh, don't give up on the genetic excuse just yet. My son was diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder when he was eight, by a neurologist, a…”
About: Not Quite Ready For Hoarders, But...
May 02, 2012 09:54AM
“It is sobering to think about. But I think it's also good for journalists not to be complacent about what skills are going to needed for future journa…”
About: Bottable Stories
May 02, 2012 09:39AM
“Sigh. They were exactly like that! And then Oprah started her OS picks, and Jonathan Franzen showed up , and it all wilted away, like the South.”
About: The Salad Days of Open Salon
April 18, 2012 01:47PM
“I have a bunch of tricks I've been using for a while. We have postal codes in Canada that have letters and numbers, so one trick I have is to use a po…”
About: Knowing the Password
April 18, 2012 01:01PM
“Thanks favourite reader Lisa. If you have time to look at a post I did in between that one and this one, I sort of deal with the foreigness of it.…”
About: Knowing the Password
April 13, 2012 11:20AM
“Thanks Whirlwind for confirming much of what I'm already sensing about the rewards of learning code later in life. I'm learning JavaScript, and findin…”
About: Is code a foreign language?
April 13, 2012 10:05AM
“Thanks Rob. I'm totally in agreement with you. Even if I were stop now after three months, I've already learned so much about computational thinking,…”
About: Is code a foreign language?
April 13, 2012 09:16AM
“Thanks Deborah, It does seem like a pretty cool time to be a programmer. I hope your husband checks out the link I included to what's happening in Lond…”
About: Is code a foreign language?
April 11, 2012 01:56PM
“Actually, for every francophone Montrealer who is a jerk about the quality of someone's French, I've probably met about a hundred who are totally nice…”
About: Is code a foreign language?
April 08, 2012 08:24AM
“Thanks for that puzzle, Joseph. I've been trying to wrap my head around recursion for a few weeks now, and that visualization was just what I needed.…”
About: My Code Year, So Far
April 04, 2012 11:22PM
“Thanks, Rob. I will always credit you with teaching me my first line of code, back in the early days of OS, when I wanted to figure out how to build l…”
About: My Code Year, So Far
April 04, 2012 08:39PM
“Thanks fatboyardee, I will keep my eyes peeled. Maria, always great to see you too. One of the best things about learning to code is discovering all t…”
About: My Code Year, So Far
April 04, 2012 07:13PM
“Yeah, Steve, there is that higher order thinking part. But I hooked on to a really excellent Stanford prof, Mehran Sahami. He broadcast an entire intro…”
About: My Code Year, So Far
April 04, 2012 05:34PM
“It is, sometimes. But it's also really rewarding kind of like a mash between math and writing. They say a senior developer gets into the 60 to 100K…”
About: My Code Year, So Far
March 14, 2012 04:14AM
“Too bad you didn't get the condo. We would have been neighbours. I'm having my own headaches with my downstairs owner/neighbour/wei rdo who is trying…”
About: Bad Teacher
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