Pace didn’t leave our sight for the first year of his life. Shea found me in the garage a day after we brought Sasha home. “Uhm, where did you leave the baby?” (She was in her crib sleeping.) Pace only ate healthy, nutritious, homemade food. When Sasha finds crumbs or dropped Cheerios on the ground, […]
Hard to believe but yesterday marks one year since the most recent NDP Leadership convention where Ryan Meili lost to the eventual winner, Cam Broten, by just 44 votes (less than 1% of all votes cast). As a cathartic process after the loss, I’d compiled a list of “44 Reasons We Lost” in my personal […]
Wikipedia summary of cast members with timeline Another list of casts by year on a fan site Cast photos by year (via Reddit) Probably like a lot of people, I feel most strongly about the casts I watched when I was in my formative years circa 1989-1991 or so – Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, […]
Something cool to see whether I’m coming from or going to work…
Ellen Degeneres arranged a “spontaneous” selfie with some heavy hitters at the recent Oscar telecast. After tweeting it, it quickly crashed Twitter, became the most re-tweeted photo of all-time eclipsing Obama’s “Four More Years” tweet many times over, and becoming ripe for parody. But it also quickly led to a question about who owned the copyright to […]
A great question from Reddit’s /r/books sub-reddit.
I posted this picture on our third anniversary back in 2006 but see that the link to the graphic’s ended up broken during one of my blog moves. So here’s the image once again – my favourite wedding picture (well, not counting the more spontaneous one of Shea running out of the water just as a […]
Today, Reddit had an official blog post about their “Gold” program where you can either buy an annual membership or “gild” someone with gold for one-off comments and now posts. Gold members (like myself) get added benefits on the site including the ability to save comments and as part of their blog post, they listed […]
Bruce Springsteen has been covering songs by local artists during various stops on his Australian tour – INXS, AC/DC and Lorde. Oh, and this one… “Staying Alive” – Bee Gees (Bruce Springsteen cover)
A mother explains the value of libraries to her and her family. I like being among the people who come to my branch for English language classes, the retirees who sit and read the newspaper, the rowdy kids who are killing time before they go home, and moms of young children reading their tots Ezra […]
