Skip to content

Monthly Archives March 2013

Happy Yeaster: It Has Risen!

Perhaps my favourite thing about the major Christian holidays is it spurs atheists and other non-believers to great heights of humour…

Posted 31 March 2013 § Humour § Meme § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – How Babies Are Made

Shea’s mom shows Pace and his cousin the video I linked to earlier this week which shows how babies grow in a mommy’s tummy. They’re quite enthralled…

Posted 30 March 2013 § Baby § Family § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Google’s Secret of Innovation: Empowering Its Employees

A good article about why Google has been so successful including: Google Cafes to encourage employee interaction, allowing anyone to directly e-mail senior managers Google Moderator which is custom software that allows staff to ask questions about any aspect of the company and then vote on other people’s ideas to ensure the most relevant ideas […]

Posted 29 March 2013 § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

A Psychic Reveals His Greatest Trick

…and it’s actually kinda terrifying.  (h/t JG)

Posted 28 March 2013 § Censorship § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day.  Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday – Bookworm Edition

50 Reasons You Should Be a Bookworm 8 Reasons You Should Sign Up For GoodReads In Re Books Wrap-up: A Presentation by Jessamyn West of librarian.net  14 Ways Public Libraries Are Good for the Country [Edit: found a few more links…] MetaFilter: The Holy Grail of Publishing Metrics – how e-book readers “read” their owners for […]

Posted 26 March 2013 § List § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “L’Odyssée de la Vie”

No words for me to quote in the title of this week’s post like I usually do.  But the epic choral and instrumental music is a perfect soundtrack for this awesome video as Shea and I are down to around a month or so until our baby comes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8vrt2ebnk

Posted 25 March 2013 § Baby § Family § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

‘Rasslin and the Tea Party

The WWE is currently running an angle where a couple of bad guy wrestlers (“heels” in wrestling jargon) are acting like members of a quasi-Tea Party-like group while a Mexican wrestler is the good guy (“babyface”) standing up to their bigotry. This is unique for a couple reasons – wrestling is not known for being […]

Posted 24 March 2013 § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Cherry Blossoms in Baby’s Room

Baby’s room is coming together…

Posted 23 March 2013 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – “Welcome to Literarily Drunk. I’m drunk. And I like books!”

A new vlogger combines a couple of my favourite things – books and booze – in her Literarily Drunk reviews. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcxnUh4JjY

Posted 22 March 2013 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: