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Monthly Archives March 2010

Music Monday – "I got a letter from the government the other day/Opened it and read it/It said they were suckers/They wanted me for their army or whatever"

When I was in England in 1995, this song (and the album it appeared on) were consistently rated at or near the top of the “best of” lists for that year by the NME, Melody Maker and Q.

Posted 09 March 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Has It Been A Week Already?

A detailed analysis of the four seconds leading up to Sidney Crosby's gold medal winning goal at the Olympics.  (via Reddit)

Posted 08 March 2010 § Canada § Main Page § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Getting Ready For Our New Flooring

Everybody pitches in!

Posted 06 March 2010 § Main Page § Pace § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – What Do Today's Parents Need To Know That Previous Ones Didn't? (March 7, 2010)

Seriously, I think I could start dedicating a day to an Ask MetaFilter Question o' the Day.  (I did ask a category for MetaFilter recently so that's part way there already!)  This one was particularly relevant – what things does a new parent today have to know about/worry about that previous generations didn't? 

Posted 06 March 2010 § Baby § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Saskatchewan Party Government – Now With Over 100% Incompetence!

100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions.  I wrote about this when our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year.  But man, it takes a special kind of stupid […]

Posted 05 March 2010 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

What Do You Notice?

AskMetaFilter frowns on ChatFilter questions but they tend to be the most interesting to me.  Here's one on “What do you notice?” which has all kinds of answers from “when people are polite” to “clouds” to “typos” (or is that typo's? )

Posted 04 March 2010 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

"Saskatchewan is used to leading, trying new things and being co-operative" – SILS officially launched!

The Saskatchewan Library & Information Services Consortium (SILS) which will bring together ten separate library systems across the province plus the government agency responsible for library services officially launched this morning at RPL's George Bothwell branch.  Four systems are live already (Saskatoon Public Library, Palliser which is based in Moose Jaw, Southeast which is based […]

Posted 03 March 2010 § Library § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "We are the 'what' in 'what's new'."

The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades.  Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd […]

Posted 01 March 2010 § Canada § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °