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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 9

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It’s a day to consider how people with disabilities experience the web, software, mobile devices, games and so on, targeted towards designers, developers, usability professionals and others without much experience with accessibility. There are public events scheduled all over the world, as well as other accessibility-related events. To participate on your own, [...]

Posted 09 May 2013 § Censorship § Internet § Mobile § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – “May the Fourth Be With You” Nerd Family Edition

A few different shots in honour of perhaps the nerdiest day of the year: I’m not a programmer but via a handy online interface, was able to create my own watchface for my “21st Century Calculator Watch“.  There’s also a web site with lots of other cool watchfaces others with greater skills than my own [...]

Posted 04 May 2013 § Family § Humour § Internet § Pace § Sasha § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Mom’s Lifetime Membership in SUN (and some thoughts on where she’s influenced me – it might not be where you’d expect!)

One benefit of being home with the baby for a couple weeks was that Shea, Sasha and I were able to slip out one afternoon earlier this week for one of Sasha’s first-ever outings. We snuck into the SUN AGM & Conference to see my mom receive a Lifetime Membership from the organization (she’d also [...]

Posted 27 April 2013 § Family § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

I’m a Dad – Random Thoughts About Sasha’s First Day (On Her One Week Birthday)

So as much as I’d like to just keep posting pictures of Sasha, eventually I’ve got to get back to blog posts that have “letters” and “words” rather than cute pictures. A good place to start would be with a look back at that first day, inspired partly by many of the notes I scribbled [...]

Posted 23 April 2013 § Baby § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day.  Now *that’s* customer service! If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes is [...]

Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § TenThings § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome Says Science #skndpldr

As we head into the first day of the Sask NDP Leadership Convention, I thought I’d post a fun article (h/t to GG) on behalf of the members of Team Meili, most of whom who are of the Y chromosome persuasion, will be sporting beards of varying degrees of length and lushness this weekend. Very [...]

Posted 08 March 2013 § Humour § Meme § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Conception to Birth Visualized

Other than the fact that the scientist presenting this TED talk should know better than to hint that the complexity of human evolution as being so amazing that it evokes divinity, this is a pretty cool video… (A bit more on the idea that just because something is complex, that means it must be divinely created [...]

Posted 10 February 2013 § Baby § Family § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun (?) Link – What Would It Feel Like For A Man To Be In Labour?

Shea kindly sent me this video of a couple young Dutch men who volunteered to have electrodes put on their abdomen to simulate the increasingly painful contractions of labour. It’s not in English but I’d say pain is a pretty universal language – although if I’m being a smart-ass, I’d also wonder if they were [...]

Posted 18 January 2013 § Baby § FridayFunLink § Humour § Shea § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Study Shows Lower Mortality Rate for Overweight People

I honestly thought this was a fake news headline from The Onion when I saw it in my Twitter feed.  Turns out it’s a story from the New York Times! (Now where’d I leave that bag of Doritos?)

Posted 08 January 2013 § Humour ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

“Literacy Privilege: How I Learned To Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet”

Got involved in a discussion today which led to this article about a repentant “Grammar Nazi” who realised that her judging of people who had bad spelling and grammar on the Internet was her reinforcing that she had all kinds of privileges that the people she was making fun of didn’t – education, income, security, [...]

Posted 02 January 2013 § Internet § Politics § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,