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Best SNL Cast Member Ever?

Grantland has done a tournament-style bracket to allow users to pick the best SNL cast member of all-time. The voting is closed now but the ultimate winner is probably as uncontroversial as you could get with such a varied cast, storied history and iconic program. Who would my pick be? Maybe Mike Myers? Dana Carvey? […]

¶ Posted 31 August 2014 § Infographic § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: television

Saturday Snap – Hiking at Willow Bunch Campground

¶ Posted 30 August 2014 § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, saskatchewan

Friday Fun LInk – “The Coolest” Cooler Breaks Pebble’s Kickstarter Record

The Coolest – a modern cooler integrating all kinds of cool technology and gimzos has unseated Pebble’s over two year long record for highest earning Kickstarter offering, earning $10.7 million to Pebble’s $10.3 million. The Kickstarter has closed now so you can’t get in, even if you wanted to (I did for Pebble but not […]

¶ Posted 29 August 2014 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, travel

What Happens If You “Like” Every Single Thing You See on Facebook For A Couple Days?

A Wired writer finds out (and the results aren’t pretty!)

¶ Posted 28 August 2014 § Internet § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, science

Ran a Minecraft program at my library tonight…

…but am way too tired to write more than that! 😉

¶ Posted 27 August 2014 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Many colours are the jewels that sparkle/Many pleasures I will hold and embrace/Still for all that this world has to offer/It’s here that my heart will remain”

When pressed, I might call “Gone” by Greg Keelor my favourite album of all-time. Here’s one of the songs from that album… “Lucknow” – Greg Keelor

¶ Posted 25 August 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

VPL Strikes Blow For Freedom of Expression!

Vancouver Public Library has recently made news in libraryland with a controversial revised Internet Access Policy that added a restriction specifically addressing patrons viewing “explicit sexual images”. And I, for one, am glad to see that Vancouver Public Library has taken this important step! For far too long, libraries have allowed patrons to view any and […]

¶ Posted 24 August 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Library ‡ Comments (2) °

Saturday Snap – Cobb Salad

I don’t post a lot of pictures of food but Shea created something magical the other night that needs to be documented…

¶ Posted 23 August 2014 § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, recipe

Friday Fun Link – GasRun.ca

GasRun. ca is a pretty cool site that uses your location to estimate the day’s gas price then allows you to enter two destination points and the type of vehicle you drive to estimate how much it would cost for you to travel one-way or return between those two points. So, as an example, I typed […]