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Monthly Archives December 2012

Friday Fun Link – #yqr Self-Guided Twinkle Tour

The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day.  The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw. Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – […]

Posted 21 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Saskatchewan § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Wikipedia’s Doing Their Annual Year-End Fundraising Drive – Do They Need To?

According to this article, not really.

Posted 20 December 2012 § Internet § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pube Juice

This is kind of dumb but for some reason, Shea and I were absolutely killing ourselves reading these out loud tonight!

Posted 19 December 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Differences Between Christmas Concerts For Pace and The Elementary School-Aged Me

Pace had his first Christmas concert (actually “concerts” – see #5 below) today. That got me thinking about the ways they’ve changed since I was a kid. [Edit: Someone pointed out many of the differences are as much about rural vs. urban approaches as generational which is probably true.] First off, when I was a […]

Posted 18 December 2012 § Censorship § Humour § List § Pace § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

@ryanMeili Monday – Who’s Winning The #skndpldr $$$ Race With Individual Support Only?

At the start of the #skndpldr race, there was a bit of attention when one candidate (I think it was Erin Weir?) proposed that if elected leader, he would work to ban corporate and union donations from the political process (although also declining to follow this guideline for the Sask NDP leadership race pointing out […]

Posted 17 December 2012 § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds.  Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, […]

Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § Meme § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Holiday Concert

Pace saw a YouTube video of the song he’s doing for his school Christmas holiday concert and decided he needed to jazz up his look too!

Posted 15 December 2012 § Censorship § Family § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Outdoor Coed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society

You know you’re old and married when you’re more interested in what books they’re reading than the other “boo” word that’s being featured in these photos!  😉

Posted 14 December 2012 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Sometimes I Really Miss Calgary

Like when I read articles like this one where I know the business and most people in the article including Greg and Simone. Side note – I’ve long advocated that libraries should integrate the same type of question that Pages bookstore asks all their new applicants.

Posted 13 December 2012 § Canada § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Happy 12/12/12

I’m posting this on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm (okay, I’m jiggering the time stamp so it appears like I posted it on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm.) (How’d I miss such an obvious post for today?)  

Posted 12 December 2012 § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,