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Monthly Archives October 2013

Music Monday – “And I know that by February/My thoughts on snow will be contrary/But this is now and then is then!”

Here are a few pics I threw together in a slideshow to celebrate the first snow of the year. “Celebrate” might sound like the wrong word but for me, the first snow of the year is always exciting and, as the song says, “I know that by February/My thoughts on snow will be contrary/But this […]

Posted 21 October 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Photo § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Neil Gaiman’s Love Letter to Libraries

The Guardian recently published an edited version of Neil Gaiman‘s lecture for the Reading Agency.  The Reading Agency’s annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries. The lecture is amazingly good. On the purposes of reading (and specifically reading fiction)… Fiction […]

Posted 20 October 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § Library § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Perogy Poutine

I don’t post a lot of pictures of food on my blog but I couldn’t let this one go by. After Pace’s swimming lessons today, we decided to check out a new restaurant called Coney Island Cafe which was rumoured to have a few varieties of poutine rather than the traditional fries/gravy/cheese curds version you […]

Posted 19 October 2013 § Canada § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Wearable Gesture Control

Recently read an article about up & coming Canadian start-ups which mentioned Pebble and these guys whose product looks amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWu9TFJjHaM

Posted 18 October 2013 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Pace and Sasha at Six Months…

…who’s chubbier? 😉

Posted 17 October 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

7 Ways To Be Insufferable on Facebook

I’m not too interested in policing how people use Facebook – I have my share of Facebook friends who vaguebook, overshare, “envy post” and so on and either enjoy or ignore their posts as required. Plus I probably do these things myself too on occasion but at the same time, when I post a cute […]

Posted 16 October 2013 § Internet § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Evolution of Reddit

A graphical representation of different phases of Reddit’s evolution over time.  I joined in January 2007 (and probably was a lurker for a bit of time before that) so that’s a few years before Reddit exploded around 2010, roughly around the time that Digg, which I was never a big fan of, went into freefall. […]

Posted 15 October 2013 § Infographic § Internet § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “9 was minding his business/Talking to 10 about Gordie Howe’s clothes/Why 7 ate 9 nobody knows”

Pace’s grade one class has access to a site called IXL.ca.  This site has a series of modules on various aspects of math that kids can work through to learn concepts including counting, addition, shapes and so on. There are dozens of modules under various headings, each with escalating levels of difficulty – for example, under […]

Posted 14 October 2013 § Internet § Pace § Shea § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Two Reasons I’m Thankful Today (And Every Day)

I get to regularly witness scenes like this (I especially love how he leans in to hug her after making her giggle!)

Posted 13 October 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Sasha § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Sasha’s Message to the Edmonton Eskimos

You lose!

Posted 12 October 2013 § Humour § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Sports § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °