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Monthly Archives May 2015

Some Unique International Borders

This is pretty cool. (Make sure you click on some of the images suggested in the comments as well!)

¶ Posted 31 May 2015 § Canada § Photo § Politics § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, travel

Saturday Snap – Good-Bye Aunt Sandi

For the past few years, my aunt has come to stay with us for a month or so in May. She’s around for Pace’s birthday, helps watch the kids while we tackle some of our spring projects, uses our home as a base for visiting various friends from when she lived in Regina and otherwise […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, travel

Friday Fun Link – Find Out Which Technologies A Web Site Is Using

BuiltWith.com is a cool site that will allow you to find out what technologies any web site is using. I thought it would just say “WordPress” for my site but turns out it identifies everything from the server software to the hosting company to various plug-ins. Here are the full results for headtale.com.

¶ Posted 29 May 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – But Can He Tweet In Braille?

¶ Posted 28 May 2015 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]

¶ Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, facebook, google, reddit, twitter

Music Monday – “So I looked at the scenery/She read her magazine/And the moon rose over an open field.'”

“America” – First Aid Kit

¶ Posted 25 May 2015 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, television

Secular Sunday – At What Point Does This Become Blasphemous?

¶ Posted 24 May 2015 § Humour § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, language, philosophy

Saturday Snap – (Un)Hip Waders

My uncle and I while putting in the dock at our family cottage…

¶ Posted 23 May 2015 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Find Out What Your Name Would Be If You Were Born Today

This site uses census data to match your name’s popularity the year you were born (Jason = #3 in 1973) with the same ranked name from this year (Mason = #3 in 2015) as well as some other years as well. For the record… Shea would be Amaya Pace would be Abriel Sasha would be Zara […]