Skip to content

Monthly Archives December 2012

2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed […]

Posted 31 December 2012 § Meme § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

First Lines from Each Month of My 2012 Blog Posts

  January – “I’ve made no secret of my love of lists and how this is the best time of the year for lists.” February – “I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.” March – “My prediction?  This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all.” April – “I’ve done some […]

Posted 30 December 2012 § Blog § Internet § MemoryLane § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – A Historic Document!

Shea and I were cleaning out the basement today and came across the note I’d sent her mom acknowledging receipt of a damage deposit before Shea moved into a condo my family owned by U of R. I always joke that Shea couldn’t pay her rent one month and next thing I knew, we were […]

Posted 29 December 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 40 Song Xmas Song Medley

If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic.  You may also want to check out […]

Posted 28 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Which Book Made The Most “Best of” Lists in 2012?

This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists?  (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!)  Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad! In my own […]

Posted 27 December 2012 § Library § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wrapper’s Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper

From The Atlantic.

Posted 26 December 2012 § Randomness § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Censorship § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

It’s A Girl!

A pretty awesome Christmas gift! Shea and I got to find out the sex of our baby at the same time our parents did earlier tonight. During our last ultrasound, we got the tech to put the sex of the baby in a sealed envelope then handed that to a trusted friend along with a […]

Posted 24 December 2012 § Baby § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – I’m Batman!

Pace got a hold of the iPad again…

Posted 22 December 2012 § Humour § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,