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Monthly Archives June 2008

Kellogg's = Geneus!

Having recently sustained fairly serious knee lacerations due to some new “smaller than Mega-Blocks but not as small as regular Lego” Legos that Pace got for this birthday, this story has a particular resonance for me right now in terms of the danger potential of Lego and its myriad affiliated products. 

Posted 20 June 2008 § Baby § Humour § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Calgary Trip Photo Album

Shea's got a few photos from our Calgary trip up on Flickr if you're interested.  If not, this MetaFilter thread about the new M. Night Shamaladingdong movie, “The Happening”, is pretty entertaining. 

Posted 19 June 2008 § Baby § Canada § Humour § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pace Having Fun in Calgary

We happened to be downtown on the Sunday of the Gay Pride Parade in Calgary so spent some time at Olympic Plaza enjoying the music, the vendors and the atmosphere in general.  In a completely unrelated story, Pace was later photographed wearing this hat…

Posted 18 June 2008 § Baby § Canada § Humour § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

"Stag & Doe" on AskMF

I know I do a lot of “does this only happen in Saskatchewan?” posts and comments so I thought I'd pass along a recent AskMetaFilter question about “stag & does”, namely “are they only an Ontario thing or do they exist elsewhere?”And the answer is…Ontario-only and specifically SW Ontario and even more specifically rural SW […]

Posted 17 June 2008 § Canada § Main Page ‡ Comments (12) ° Tagged:

Pledge For Firefox 3.0 Download Day – June 17, 2008

Firefox 3.0, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, is attempting to set a world record for software downloads in a single day. On Tuesday June 17, over 1.3 million people (as of this writing) have pledged to download the new version of the software.  I've been using a beta release of […]

Posted 16 June 2008 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged:

Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic

This is how I sometimes feel…My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the […]

Posted 15 June 2008 § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Floating The Bow (June 13, 2008)

Well, we're back from Calgary and it was a great trip! Pace was an amazing traveler, we saw lots of friends, family and old familiar sights.  In many ways, it felt like we were trying to cram three and a half years of memories from when we lived there into just under a week of […]

Posted 14 June 2008 § Canada § Main Page § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Seven – "Half A World Away" – REM

Posted 13 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Six – "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World" – Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole

Posted 12 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (2) °

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Five – "Baseball" – Sam Baker with Gurf Morlix

(I've talked about Sam Baker and his amazing story before.Check him out!)

Posted 11 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °