Category Archives: Randomness

Saturday Snap – That Moment When You See Your Car on Regina Rant & Rave

When I met a friend for lunch at Tim Horton’s before work on Thursday, the last thing I expected to see on social media later was a pic of my car in the parking lot! Luckily it wasn’t a rant about my bad parking job or the excess of window stickers I have on my […]

Friday Fun Link – The Surprising Pattern Behind Colour Names Around The World

Cool video my son told me about…

2023 End of Year Memes – Remembering a Year That Was All About Memory

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? After our son thought our new puppy had possibly eaten his ear buds, I did a middle of the night forensic examination of a fresh dog turd using a plastic fork! Turns out my son had found the ear bud in the pocket […]

First Lines of My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2023

January – Probably still goes to Heaven? February – Why is Covid denial so dangerous? March – The resort we were just at was almost all the way to Tulum (which is two hours south of Cancun.) April – A different form of sun dog in a photo my son sent while walking our dog […]

Wisdom Wednesday – “Oh Man, Oh God”

We all find sanity and solace in different things…

Friday Fun Link – Or Just Use Duct Tape For Everything Like I Do? ;-)

ThisToThat.com is a site that tells you the best types of glues to bond different materials together.

Friday Fun Link – Norwegian Death Diving…

…is apparently a thing! (Of course, any country that invents Norwegian Death Metal is going to come up with something like this!) Death jump world record by Ken Stornes ? pic.twitter.com/enRWuHhcON — Crazy Clips (@crazyclipsonly) December 4, 2023

Friday Fun Link – Boomerang Retro C-64 Video Game

A guy I went to school with got a game published in Compute! magazine in the late 90’s (and got a $500 payday or something wild). These were the days were the code was printed in the magazine and you had to manually enter it to play the game.  (I still remember my Grade Six […]

Obituary For A Quiet Life

Perfect.

Insane Sub-Two Hour Marathon Run

Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59:40 marathon run is truly insane when you break down the numbers: ??4:35 per mile pace (the record for one mile is 3:43 and he kept the pace 26x) ??OR 2:50 per KM pace (he did it 42x and each kilometre was within 2:48 to 2:52)??The average men’s marathon… pic.twitter.com/zGJ4LI6rhm — Trung Phan […]