Saskatchewan’s increasing diversity continues to change the landscape of the city as another new specialty store has opened – this one a Filipino grocer called Mang Gerry’s which adds to specialized grocery stores we already have which specialize in foods from Korea, East India and more. Here’s a few of my purchases after my first […]
“Sell me this pen.” An old business school cliche, recently brought to attention again in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street” gets a fictional Steve Jobs spin.
I know I just posted some old pictures in a post about the Scottish referendum but since the actual referendum is today AND it’s Throwback Thursday, I realise I should’ve held off on that post until today. So , even though you just saw them, here they are again along with a bit more of the […]
Not sure if it’s a predictable answer but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it. 😉
So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]
“Changes” – David Bowie Rdio, a streaming music service similar to Spotify and Pandora but which is available in Canada (at least without requiring you to use a VPN or other sorcery to appear to be an American), recently released a major upgrade to their user interface. This was the second major change since I’d […]
Every year, Shea and I go to a movie for my birthday, a tradition that probably stretches back well over a decade now. Since my birthday is in mid-July, most years, we go to some big summer blockbuster – the latest Marvel or Batman or Jurassic Park movie (told you we go back a ways!) […]
Shea recently entered a contest on Facebook run by a group who are trying to raise funds to create a breast milk depot in Regina (similar services exist in larger cities such as Calgary and Vancouver.) For the contest, a bunch of local breastfeeding advocates submitted photos of themselves and their babies into one of three […]
Sasha’s current favourite game evolved out of the unfortunate fact that she currently thinks the noise all animals make is “roar”. “What does a kitty say?” Roar! “What does a horsie say?” Roar! “What does a froggie say?” Roar! And so on… Since she liked roaring so much, I started acting scared when she did it […]
Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n how much our world has changed since 2001 and raises some questions on how it might have been different had a similar disaster occurred in 2014? Would the […]
