It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the site, Reddit. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s currently my favourite site on the Internet. One of the reasons I like the site so much (and one of the site’s greatest advantages) is the fact that it literally has an unlimited […]
Love those A/V Club covers… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw_XxkTRLk …although in this case, Peter Bjorn and John don’t hold a candle to the original… …or even to my own personal favourite version, originally featured in one of the greatest music movies of all-time and now in a clip from The Commitments’ live tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNfHURlAff0
My mom’s taking a genealogy class so we spent quite a bit of time this weekend looking through her class notes, different web sites and reviewing the information she’d already gathered about her family. I’d taken a genealogy class in library school and had done quite a bit of research as well but mostly on […]
Premier Wall will be officially dropping the writ for Saskatchewan’s next provincial election this weekend but due to legislation his party brought in, we already know the date.
Many bemoan the coverage of politics that treats it more like sports than something with real-world purpose and implications. The good folks at Slate magazine have gone one step further, creating a very cool web page that shows the current Republican nomination battle as an actual horse race! They should open source this code and […]
One of the comments in the long MetaFilter thread about Steve Jobs’ passing stuck out for me: He made people try their hardest, and that’s the most important quality a leader can ever have. I really like how this definition of leadership is more about the impact the leader has on other people rather than […]
Just heard the news and, as with Jack Layton’s passing, the death of the co-founder of Apple was probably not a complete surprise but still pretty shocking. In fact, when I said how sad I was, Shea said “As sad as when Jack Layton died?” and I replied “More.” I went on to explain that […]
A discussion of how the song “Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes” is sung with a different melody in Canada then in other parts of the world leads to this awesome Wikipedia article about how a variety of animal sounds and other common noises are conveyed in different languages. (via MetaFilter)
Shea almost canceled our wedding when this song was playing non-stop on Mexican MTV in the lead-up to our big day. I’m not sure who was able to finally convince her that Robbie Williams might just be unobtainable and she’d have to settle for me but I’m glad they did! 😉 (Oh, who am I […]
Earlier today, Shea, Pace and I went to the grand opening of the joint campaign office for three of the NDP candidates in next month’s provincial election – Jaime Garcia, Warren McCall and Trent Wotherspoon. Jaime’s the new guy on the block, replacing retiring MLA Kim Trew, so he arguably has the toughest battle […]
