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Monthly Archives June 2017

Sometimes I Forget I Have A Blog…

…usually after a weekend of camping. Here’s some “catch-up” posts… Saturday Snap – Skateboard Mods Pace modified his penny board with duct tape and glow sticks (and after we got home, more permanently with some spray paint I got him to decorate the ramp his grandpa built him!) Secular Sunday More than half of Canadians […]

¶ Posted 20 June 2017 § MusicMonday § Pace § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Spotify’s Biggest One Hit Wonders

A graph of the songs that get the most plays out of an artist’s entire catalogue on Spotify…

¶ Posted 16 June 2017 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Internet § List § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Me Today.

¶ Posted 14 June 2017 § Humour ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health

Great @ryanmeili Speech – “A Question of Trust”

I meant to post this when I first saw it as I thought it was a pretty powerful speech, so unique and different from the usual generic “blah blah” you hear from so many politicians. In it, Ryan Meili talks about the reasons why the general public doesn’t trust politicians. He points out how politicians […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2017 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, language, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “So I’m a free enterprising socialist/Gonna take my cut and share the rest/Left wing as the right wing gets/I’ll vote ’em in for the test”

Really enjoying Blake Berglund on my “Saskatchewan-artists-only” playlist at our seasonal site at Echo Valley Provincial Park. (I’m a bit late to the game but in looking more into Berglund for this post, I see that he’s just completed a personal challenge to sell 1000 copies of his albums in the month of May, mostly through […]

¶ Posted 12 June 2017 § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: economics, music, saskatchewan, travel

“Spelling” – NHL 2017 Stanley Cup Ad (and some previous kick ass ones)

Man, the NHL really kicks ass with their annual Stanley Cup ads. Here are a few I could find… 2017 – Spelling 2015 – Name 2013 – Handshake 2012 – Boys 2010 – No Words 2008 – Cup Raise

¶ Posted 11 June 2017 § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The More Things Change… (June 2010)

Quite often, to pick out a Throwback Thursday picture, I’ll look through my photo library to the same month but a few years back (I have photos going back to 2006 when we got our first digital camera and a few that had been digitized when we got film developed before that. So I can […]

¶ Posted 08 June 2017 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Randomness § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday

Mike Bossy: Letter To My Younger Self

The Player’s Tribute site has some brilliant writing by famous athletes. Today’s post is by my favourite hockey player of all-time. Dear 14-year-old Mike, I write to you today as a 60-year-old man, and I have some news from the future that you probably aren’t going to believe. There are 30 teams in the NHL […]

¶ Posted 07 June 2017 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, hockey

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows if it’s night or day/But please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band/Who’ll throw it all away”

Yesterday’s “One Love for Manchester” concerts, pulled together only a couple weeks after a terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert are being compared to the 1970’s “Concert for Bangladesh“, the 1980’s “Live Aid“, the 1990’s “Tibetan Freedom Concert” and the 2000’s “Live 8” as another in a long line of notable benefit concerts – this being […]