Somehow I thought yesterday was Tuesday so I’ll do this week’s Music Monday post today instead (and I’ll probably post Saturday Snap on Friday and Friday Fun Link on Saturday the way I’m going!) “Manic Monday” – The Bangles
Bev Slopen is a Canadian Literary Agent who is experimenting with e-books to “learn what authors and publishers already know about the area”. Oyster, a “NetFlix for books” has launched. The obvious rejoinder is “A Netflix for books? We call that the library.” But the reality is that libraries operate on a loaning model and […]
Bobby Jurasin Documentary (Featuring pre-fame Brett Butt) I was flipping through YouTube and came across a profile of my all-time favourite Rider, #71 Bobby Jurasin (which features a few cameos by a pre-“Corner Gas” Brent Butt starting around the 11:45 mark!) I got to meet Mr. Jurasin when a few of us who played with […]
Pace loved a friend’s drum set… Well, more toes than thumbs…
Shea and I are watching a great documentary as I type this – you should too! (Er, it’s on NetFlix and they’ll track that you watched it of course.)
Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff… And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcO24WljvPM
Wired magazine tells the story of a British entrepreneur who has designed a system that can designate every three metre space on earth using a three word code. What3Words.com is a system that’s much more accurate and memorable than current GPS, postal codes, street addresses and other similar techniques to designate addresses. For example, […]
Grade one for him… New Regent Place Branch Head for me…
Happy Labour Day! This year’s Labour Day is especially relevant as our current provincial government has proposed sweeping new legislation to “modernize” Saskatchewan’s labour laws by combining twelve existing pieces of Legislation into a single omnibus bill, a move which will “likely have many unintended consequences and costs. Unions aren’t taking these changes laying down […]
…but I kinda wish it was! 😉 Atheism and religion are like two sides of a coin..one prefers to use heads, other relies on tales (This quote was posted to a thread on Quora about favourite atheist jokes. The actual story of how this site got its name, which I may have told before, is […]
