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Monthly Archives June 2012

10 Questions With Dr. Ryan Meili

I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Ryan Meili, author of “A Healthy Society: How A Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy“. After some back and forth discussion, we decided that the best way to do this would be for me to prepare a few questions then send them by e-mail so he […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, health, history, saskatchewan, science, travel

Saturday Snap – Kindergarten Orientation

Pace had a half-day kindergarten orientation on Friday. Definitely a bittersweet day. Everyone tells you but hard to believe how fast they grow…

¶ Posted 09 June 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education, parents

Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide

Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!

¶ Posted 08 June 2012 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, economics, travel

Star Wars Characters Re-imagined as Old West Characters

It’s pretty common knowledge that George Lucas at least partly based the Star Wars movies on some of the serialized westerns he saw as a child. Now, you can see how his characters may have looked had he actually done the films set in the Old West.

¶ Posted 07 June 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, movies

“There Are No Words”

Go Kings!

¶ Posted 06 June 2012 § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, health, history, parents, reddit, science

Music Monday – “6am/Day after Christmas/The smell of cold/Car seat is freezing/The world is sleeping/I am numb”

One of the saddest songs I know…

¶ Posted 04 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – Superman & Spider-man Team Up!

If you think “The Avengers” made a lot of money, can you imagine what a cross-company, joint DC-Marvel film with Superman and Spider-man teaming up to battle Dr. Doom and The Parasite with guest appearances from The Hulk and Wonder Woman would be like? Well, it’s already happened in comic book form as this gem […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, history, movies

Friday Fun Link – What Would You Take If Your House Was Burning Down? (Photos)

An interesting question – people are asked to take a photo of what they’d take from their house if it was burning down. I mean, obviously, the right answer is “nothing” and “get the hell out as fast as possible.” Also, “make sure my family is out” is an acceptable answer. From the stuff photographed, […]