“June Hymn” – The Decemberists
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 [...]
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Posted 27 March 2013
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My Facebook feed was filled with people talking about the weather, posting screen grabs of The Weather Network (did we really hit-50 with wind chill? Was Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan really the coldest place on the planet today? Was the average temperature in Saskatchewan closer to the surface temperature on Mars than in Toronto? Yes to [...]
I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video. And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)
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Posted 04 January 2013
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This is probably not a great thing to admit to while not only doing a lot of writing about but also heavily volunteering for one of four NDP leadership candidates here in Saskatchewan. But I have to admit that if I still lived in Calgary Centre, I’m fairly certain I’d be voting for the Green [...]
I wasn’t one of the millions watching the record setting freefall by Felix Baumgartner live today. But even watching the highlights video below took my breath away. Before you watch that video, here’s some highlights from this guy’s other previous jumps around the world to whet your appetite. Now watch this one. Humans are truly amazing creatures sometimes…
The only version of Hawksley Workman’s “First Snow of the Year” I could find on YouTube right now is copyright controlled so instead, you get a kids’ choir version (which actually adds to the winter/Christmas feel!) One question I haven’t resolved – when I do my annual “first snow of the year” post, what defines [...]
It’s been a pretty wild year for storms on the Prairies with lots of attention from so-called “storm chasers” who, ironically, make the storms even more prevalent by giving them a lot of attention, spotting storms that otherwise would go unreported and even using technology to provide live video streams/tweets/photo and blog updates.
This not a metaphor (okay, maybe the last one.) (via MetaFilter)
A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are. (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page. So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)
