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Monthly Archives September 2015

A Look at the Log Files…

I haven’t done a navel-gazing post for awhile so I thought it’d be interesting to list which of my blog posts have had the most views during this year along with the date that they were originally published… How To Make A Rye & Coke Press (Dec 2006) Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones (Oct 2013) Ranking […]

Saturday Snap – “My BIRD!”

I was shaving the other day while Sasha was watching when she suddenly started saying “My bird! My BIRD!” I thought her new toothbrush had tweety bird on it or something but then realised she was saying “My beard!” and asking for shaving cream of her own. Then Pace heard us laughing so he had to […]

¶ Posted 19 September 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, language

Friday Fun Link – The Geocities-izer

This web page allows you to make any site look like you designed it in 1998 using GeoCities… (via Reddit)

¶ Posted 18 September 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Computer System @OfficialRPL #yqr (February 2010)

RPL is moving to a new ILS over the coming week which reminded me of the last move we had five years ago…

¶ Posted 17 September 2015 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, saskatchewan

10 “Must Have” Things I Look For In An All-Inclusive Resort

Shea and I have been on a handful of all-inclusive vacations over the years. Every place has had its good and bad points but overall, these varied trips to Mexico (Mazatlan, Mayan Riviera, Cancun), Cuba (Varadero) and most recently, the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana), have given me a pretty good idea of some of the things I […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2015 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cool, holiday, parents

Stitching the Gimmick: A Short Documentary

The unsung behind-the-scenes people (music composers, video editors, etc.) help make pro wrestling what it is. Here is a documentary about a seamstress who makes some of the wrestlers’ elaborate costumes… Stitching The Gimmick | Documentary Short from Taylor Ellis on Vimeo.

¶ Posted 15 September 2015 § Jobs § PopCulture § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: wrestling

Music Monday – “Leaving my pennies on the track/Can’t say if I’m ever coming back”

A British guy I know (in the Facebook sense of “We’ve never met but yeah, we know each other because of our common interest in Fred Eaglesmith) who works as a tour manager for various bands posted this recently. Beautiful… “Applewood Road” – Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace

¶ Posted 14 September 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – God Responds to Aurora Shootings

This was a comment posted in response to a Christian minister’s CNN article explaining where god was during the Aurora shootings…

¶ Posted 13 September 2015 § Humour § News § SecularSunday § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, philosophy, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… Looking Back to My Four-Month University Exchange to York, England

Hard to believe but twenty (!) years ago today, I took off from Regina, Saskatchewan and landed in Paris, France, a couple weeks before I was set to begin a one semester exchange in York, England (where I took three courses including a Film Production class that gives us the slightly un-PC clip at the top […]