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Category Archives: Xmas

Happy Yeaster: It Has Risen!

Perhaps my favourite thing about the major Christian holidays is it spurs atheists and other non-believers to great heights of humour…

Posted 31 March 2013 § Humour § Meme § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed [...]

Posted 31 December 2012 § Baby § Blog § Canada § Censorship § Computer § Family § Humour § Internet § Library § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Miscellaneous § Mobile § Pace § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Sappy § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § Technology § Travel § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 40 Song Xmas Song Medley

If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic.  You may also want to check out [...]

Posted 28 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Wrapper’s Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper

From The Atlantic.

Posted 26 December 2012 § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Censorship § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – #yqr Self-Guided Twinkle Tour

The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day.  The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw. Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – [...]

Posted 21 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Five Differences Between Christmas Concerts For Pace and The Elementary School-Aged Me

Pace had his first Christmas concert (actually “concerts” – see #5 below) today. That got me thinking about the ways they’ve changed since I was a kid. [Edit: Someone pointed out many of the differences are as much about rural vs. urban approaches as generational which is probably true.] First off, when I was a [...]

Posted 18 December 2012 § Censorship § Humour § List § Pace ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Holiday Concert

Pace saw a YouTube video of the song he’s doing for his school Christmas holiday concert and decided he needed to jazz up his look too!

Posted 15 December 2012 § Censorship § Family § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

@ryanMeili Monday – #skndpldr Halfway Point Review

The #skndpldr contest kicked off in September and ends in March which means that early-to-mid-December is basically the halfway point of the campaign for all of them.  Since I’m big on celebrating milestones, I thought I’d take a moment to recognize some of the funniest, most memorable surprising and appreciated moments each has had so [...]

Posted 10 December 2012 § Humour § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,