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Monthly Archives March 2012

Track How Badly The Flames Are Crapping The Bed

This site will show the odds of any NHL team making the playoffs as the season heads to a finish in about ten games or so. As usual, the Calgary Flames are doing their annual trick of the last couple years and look to be heading for a massive choke after being oh so close to […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2012 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Well, based on how slow it’s been lately, either my computer’s dying or I have too many tabs open. Let’s hope it’s the latter as that’s easily solved! Super excited to see Ryan Meili’s name pop up as a strong “definitely maybe” in a recent list of potential NDP leadership candidates, especially since, as the […]

Music Monday – “I’m so sick of your management/I’m so sick of all of this/I’m so sick of your bullshit.”

Toronto Public Library has gone on strike so I’ll send this song out to my former classmates, colleagues and others who are walking the picket line. Here’s hoping for a fast and fair resolution.

¶ Posted 19 March 2012 § Library § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, music

This is a post from the new iPad (aka iPad 3 aka iPad HD)

Probably not surprising that I really like it so far. Stood in line to buy it Friday morning and the best part was chatting with the other hardcore nerds who easily put my geek ness to shame (or maybe wishful thinking?). Anyhow, on a different note, here’s a photo of the jambalaya we had for […]

¶ Posted 18 March 2012 § Family § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Trex-fast

¶ Posted 17 March 2012 § Family § Humour § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Library Memes

A collection of popular library memes, all in one place!

¶ Posted 16 March 2012 § Humour § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

On Tipping in Cuba

Chris Turner, author of the Hammy winning book, “The Leap”, has an outstanding article in the latest issue of The Walrus about the unique relationship between Canada and Cuba which captures, way better than I ever could, much of the mixed emotions you feel as a wealthy Canadian tourist in Cuba – are you helping […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, book, economics, holiday, language, travel, unitedstates

I’m Voting For Nathan Cullen (And If You Want Stephen Harper Gone, You Should Too!)

So we’ve got about ten days until the NDP picks a new leader and after watching the race develop since day one, I’ve pretty much made up my mind that I’ll be putting Nathan Cullen first on my ballot. If you go back to my initial (public) rankings a month ago, I had Nathan second […]

¶ Posted 13 March 2012 § Politics ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Music Monday – “What it take to make you people dance?”

The “walking down the street, dancing” theme is a popular one for music videos, from REM to Hawksley Workman to the classic of the genre from The Verve. Here’s another one from Blur’s guitarist, Graham Coxon…

¶ Posted 12 March 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

Daylight Savings Time

A timely (ha!) article about Daylight Savings Time. Saskatchewan doesn’t have it although it’s a constant topic of discussion on coffee row and elsewhere across the province. Premier Wall even promised to take it to the voters in our most recent election so we could choose. But he apparently realized it wasn’t politically savvy to […]