When I first started looking into the NDP leadership race, I went to the now obligatory Facebook fan pages of each of the four leadership candidates. I was a bit shocked to see that Dwain Lingenfelter had almost twice the number of supporters that Ryan Meili had – even though Meili was the much younger […]
As you may know, former Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert is retiring from politics and a race for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP is currently underway. When the first few candidates declared, I didn’t see anything that seemed different than what you’d expect – a former Deputy Premier, a current MLA, a young man involved […]
I knew taking a blog-holiday to go to Vegas could be a bad idea. I haven't posted for the last couple days which is a gap that I've only had a few times in the history of this blog – even if I miss the odd day, I very rarely miss two in a row. […]
I even knew the answer – “where's the bathroom?” wins in a landslide! (via AskMetafilter)
The week before we left for Vegas I posted Elvis as my Music Monday clip. So now that we're back, I thought I'd close with another Vegas icon… (and speaking of The King, a note to self: do not include the joking phrase “Going to Las Vegas for an Elvis Convention” in your e-mail auto-reply […]
Although I have to admit that I didn't take nearly as many as I normally would – both because I often find that having a lens to your eye all the time removes you from the experience and also because, frankly, you can go to Flickr and find photos of anything we visited – the […]
1. Visit one of their local libraries. 2. Take in a second show besides “Love” (Penn & Teller would've been awesome as would have any of the other Cirque shows)3. Eat at In 'n' Out Burger – a no-frills California chain that's sort of like McDonald's but with high-quality, healthy ingredients. 4. Put $10 on […]
Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas. Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…
Sitting in McCarran airport in Vegas just waiting for our flight departure. After a couple *really* close calls on the way down – both in Regina (long security line-up) and Calgary (half-hour delay leaving Regina due to aforementioned long security lines meant we had half an hour to sprint through Calgary airport, clear customs, find […]
I'm not sure where I first heard the term “degree snob” but it was most memorably put to me in reference to a professional librarian who would literally not lower themself to speak to non-professional staff if it could be helped! With that as a jumping off point (and based on some of my […]