I’ve done this every year since I started this blog and once again, here’s a quick summary of my 2010 in meme form: 1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Since my grandparents lived in BC for most of my life (they left Saskatchewan the year I was born so how’s that […]
I think I post this site every year and once again, Fimoculous is compiling all of the various “Best of” and “Top 10” lists that come out around the end of the year. It’s a great place to check in on the music, movies, books and other listable items that you may have missed.
I was barely able to pass Stats in library school so this article makes next to no sense to me. But the analysis sure sounds impressive! 😉 (One figure that I do know – I’d always heard that shootouts where 1/3 “score” versus 2/3 “save or miss” and after 1500+ shootouts in the NHL under […]
With some beautiful weather today, we decided to head to the elementary school near our house to do some tobogganing this afternoon. There’s a small hill behind the school which is “Pace-sized” – except some enterprising folks had seen fit to create an ice run on the hill, build a jump at the bottom of […]
I recently discovered a sub-Reddit that could give me Music Monday material for years to come. r/coversongs is exactly as it says – links to various cover versions of songs done by well-known and unknown performers. Here’s one of my favourite covers that I’ve come across so far… …which you can contrast with the following […]
Although it wasn’t written for the holiday season (actually it was in a thread about picking up hitchhikers), a Redditor shares a “pay it forward” story that seems extremely appropriate at this time of the year. “Today you, tomorrow me.”
Just to finish off Atheism Week, a Christmas Story… Like so many kids, I was a total believer in Santa Claus when I was a kid – unlike my experiences at church, not one aspect of the story rang false – probably because I so strongly *wanted* to believe. Magic sacks that could hold enough […]
Well, after a week of fairly provocative posts about atheism and religion, I came across this video (thanks to BB on Facebook) and thought I’d post this as a bit of a peace offering to anyone who read my posts and was offended or suddenly thinks I’m a dick – if you didn’t already! 😉 […]
A secular holiday for the rest of us, Happy Festivus everyone!
If you watched the movie “Creation“, you know that Charles Darwin struggled mightily about publishing his theory of evolution. He knew the negative impact his theory could have on organized religion and especially those closest to him since, as was the nature of the time, many in his circle of friends and acquaintances, including his […]
