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Monthly Archives February 2011

Saturday Snap – The Best Part of Shaving The Winter Beard…

The Best Part of Shaving The Winter Beard, originally uploaded by headtale. …is getting to carve out all manner of redneck, yokel and classic facial hair styles as you whittle it down to “clean-shaven.” (For the record, Regina is still fricken freezing – made worse by a thaw the other week that’s turned Regina into […]

Posted 19 February 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Soocial

If you’re like me, you have contacts all over the place – on your home computer, on your work computer, on your smart phone, on a notepad by your phone, on little scraps of paper in your pocket.  Soocial is a new site that attemps to easily automate the process of syncing contacts between all […]

Posted 18 February 2011 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

A Unique Approach to Interviewing

This is sort of an extension of an earlier post on “What is the One Defining Quality of Desirable Employees?” where I claimed that optimism trumped all. I recently watched a YouTube clip (sorry, didn’t save the link) where the CEO of Zappo’s talked about some of the unique things they asked during interviews and […]

Posted 17 February 2011 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – Justin Bieber: Canadian Statesman?

No, that post title is not a joke.  (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber and his recent rise to stardom fascinating. There’s the fact that he’s from Woodstock, ON, just down the road from London.  [Edit: I’m obviously not *that* fascinated […]

Posted 16 February 2011 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player.  That eventually happened in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat the greatest Grandmaster of all-time Garry Kasparov (of course, computers had been beating inferior players for much longer – including ChessMaster 3000 […]

Posted 15 February 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “When the guns are the fence post/The cars are the doghouse/And the telephones no longer ring/What, what of the night/With no electrical light/So what then?”

With apologies to Leonard Cohen, this is easily the sweetest love song about the end of the world ever. Or if that’s not your speed, how about a 200 love song YouTube playlist? Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted 14 February 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Ye Olde Thyme Hockey

Recipe for A Real-Life “Slapshot” Movie Take one goalie fight in a recent game that ended with the New York Islanders’ starter, Rick DiPietro, getting one-punched (and a broken jaw) from the Penguins back-up goalie, Brent Johnson That game also saw Maxime Talbot of the Pens hit Blake Comeau of the Isles causing a concussion […]

Posted 13 February 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – A Space-Themed Birthday Party in Manitoba

Posted 12 February 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Sex on a First Date to Long Term Prospects, A Dating Site Knows All?

Dating site, OKCupid, has a really interesting blog where they draw on their massive data pool from site members profiles and interactions to come up with some revealing information.

Posted 11 February 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Hilarious: Devils vs. Angels (Guess Who Wins?)

You would think this was planned, it’s so perfect…

Posted 10 February 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: