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Friday Fun Link – Coverflip

A female authors, tired of being asked to “put a guy cover on her books so the guys can read it” asks her Twitter followers to “flip” the gender of the authors of a variety of popular works with the resulting changes to the covers of their books providing all kinds of hilarious results (The [...]

Posted 14 June 2013 § Humour § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And that Holy Water, that you soak in is then poisoned/When everyone else Is more comfortable remaining voiceless/Rather than fighting for humans/That have had their rights stolen”

Hip hop isn’t always known for its sensitivity around issues of misogyny and homophobia  so this song, written in support of efforts to legalize same sex marriage in Washington State, is a welcome change… “Same Love” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Posted 10 June 2013 § MusicMonday § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – An Unintentional Star Wars Kinda Day

Pace went to a birthday party today and got a bubble tube as part of the goody bag treats.  As soon as we got home, he suggested using it as a “light saver” so we could play Star Wars. (I also have to note that after the party, Pace told us that he was the [...]

Posted 08 June 2013 § Baby § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Movie Night With My Kids

Posted 30 May 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “How I wonder what you are/Up above the world so high/Like a diamond in the sky”

A pianist uses a popular children’s song to do a very cool demonstration the past century of recorded music… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDR14y19fQ

Posted 27 May 2013 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire

A Business Week profile of the Sriracha Hot Sauce company including its founder, its history and some reasons why its been so successful. My own introduction to the fabled hot sauce was fairly typical – when I started working at the Sask Publishers Group, my boss took me for Vietnamese food (is it possible I [...]

Posted 16 May 2013 § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Macca!!! (And Ten Songs I’m Most Excited To Hear At His #YQR Concert)

I’m already on record that The Beatles are my favourite band of all-time. At the same time, I’ve never seen any of them live (not even Ringo!) I almost got my chance last November when Paul McCartney was in Edmonton and a friend ended up with an extra pair of tickets. But he ended up [...]

Posted 26 April 2013 § FridayFunLink § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the [...]

Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Indian Head” by the Eyebats

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I can’t really make out any of the words to this song.  So I’ll just put the band name and title of the song as the title of this post instead of relevant lyrical excerpt like I usually do. But since the title of the song [...]

Posted 08 April 2013 § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The 21st Century Calculator Watch?

When I was a kid, the cartoon “Battle of the Planets” was a huge deal for me and my friends. One of the many cool things about the show was that “the G-Force members stay in contact through a wrist-band communicator device.” In grade one, I still remember how I convinced a bunch of my [...]

Posted 03 April 2013 § Computer § Humour § MemoryLane § Mobile § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,