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Monthly Archives January 2013

@ryanMeili Monday – The Most Important Endorsement? #skndpldr

Trent Wotherspoon got the endorsement of a trio Manitoba MLA’s today, Cam Broten posted one from a retired Director of Education and Ryan Meili got what could be described as quasi-endorsements from high-profile NDP MP’s Libby Davies (Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Health Critic) and Niki Ashton (Critic for Women’s Issues) in an e-mail blast to […]

Posted 07 January 2013 § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

The NHL’s Back But Hockey Never Left

I know it’s a Tim Hortons commercial designed to tug the heart strings but it does a good job of summarizing why hockey is so important in the Canadian psyche… And just to reinforce the impression that my blog suddenly has Tim Horton’s sponsorship, a Timbits highlights reel… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ibfGb_VUA Finally, an old blog post about […]

Posted 06 January 2013 § Canada § Sad § Sports § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – New Year’s Day Waterslide Chase

We booked rooms at the local Travelodge for New Year’s Eve intending to do some watersliding with Shea’s parents, her aunt and Pace’s cousin.  That’s what we did although when we went down to the pool and the pool attendant informed us that New Year’s Eve is their busiest day of the year in the […]

Posted 05 January 2013 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video…  (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video.  And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

Posted 04 January 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

A Censored Girl’s Name? How Timely!

Seeing that Iceland has a list of approved names for boys and girls and that they’ve taken away the name of a 15-year old girl that somehow slipped through their bureaucracy after being baptized with an unapproved name initially, makes me want to name our baby Blaer just on principle! (Except I have an objection […]

Posted 03 January 2013 § Baby § Censorship § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“Literacy Privilege: How I Learned To Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet”

Got involved in a discussion today which led to this article about a repentant “Grammar Nazi” who realised that her judging of people who had bad spelling and grammar on the Internet was her reinforcing that she had all kinds of privileges that the people she was making fun of didn’t – education, income, security, […]

Posted 02 January 2013 § Internet § Politics § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Celebrating Some @ryanMeili #skndpldr Firsts on the First Day of 2013

As he did in 2009, Ryan Meili is once again spearheading an extremely innovative leadership campaign that has all kinds of potential to change the way politics are done in Saskatchewan. Here are just a few examples of Meili “Firsts” in the current campaign… First candidate to use a mobile-friendly domain hack for his web […]

Posted 01 January 2013 § Meme § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: