Dear Santa, originally uploaded by headtale. Pace is getting very excited for Christmas this year – he “encouraged” us to put up the tree a week ago and then, the next day, decided not only that we had to write a letter to Santa *right now* but also, walk down the dark, snowy street to […]
DiscoverReads.com is a new site that provides book recommendations based on which books you tell it you already like/have read based on a five star rating system. I spent some time entering a bunch of books that I liked (realising that most of the books I rated ended up getting between 3-5 stars since what’s […]
Today is “Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache” Day, created (by Maxim magazine? Oh, sorry – I mean, Asylum magazine) as a way for women to support the men they love as they grow all those oh-so-sexy soup strainers in support of prostate cancer. In related news, I thought about registering for Movember […]
Stories like this are only hastening my arrival at a “kids these days!” state of old man intolerance and disgust. Okay, I’m sure part of this isn’t just a generation of insensitive, YouTube zomboids not reacting to an emergency but also a terrible example of the bystander effect, except, like so many other things, the […]
A fun graphic which matches the list of “Largest Countries in the World (geography)” against the list of “Largest Countries in the World (population)” So, for example, Russia (largest by geography) would be home to the people of China (largest by population.) Interestingly, a couple countries (including the US which is 4th in the world […]
After years of back and forth between Apple (the Beatles record label) and Apple (the technology company), the Beatles are now on iTunes!
Like many public libraries, Regina has a “Friends of the Library” group. But unlike most libraries, ours sprung up in response to threatened closures of three branches plus our art gallery and our Prairie History Room in 2003. The Friends group played a big role in keeping the threatened locations alive, managing to get […]
Well, it’s November 13 and we’ve got the tree up and decorated already. Asked hypothetically on Facebook and the opinion was split – don’t put it up before December 1 vs. it’s a busy time of year so whenever you get a chance. Plus I like the sentiment of the person who said “You don’t […]
Looking forward to the big Riders game this weekend (though I’ve managed to double-book myself for Sunday afternoon so am thinking “PVR game and try to make it home from event without hearing/seeing/webbing the score” will have to be my strategy. Not ideal since my most direct route home goes right past the stadium where […]
A few years ago, I went on record as saying that I rarely to never wore a poppy on Remembrance Day (a personal belief I admitted was the scariest thing I’d ever talked about on my blog because the poppy is so sacrosanct in our culture.) I observed that I tend to avoid the poppy […]
