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Monthly Archives November 2016

Saturday Snap – Cutie Pa-tootie

Posted 19 November 2016 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents

A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…

Posted 18 November 2016 § Canada § Jobs § PopCulture § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Parkour Hockey?

Only my son would figure out a way to turn a new hockey net into a parkour gym! 😉

Posted 17 November 2016 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Few Favourite Comments From The Election Night MetaFilter Thread

I mentioned in a previous post that MetaFilter was my island of sanity in the craziness of the US election. But the reality is that MetaFilter was its own little bubble, in many ways more homogenous in its left wing, liberal orthodoxy than any other site was biased towards the left *or* the right. Anyhow, […]

Posted 16 November 2016 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

The Math Behind The Game Spot It!

Sasha and I were playing Spot It! today and it got me thinking how the game manages to have such a vast number of cards and yet there’s always one (and only one) match in the 16 (well, technically 15) symbols shown on any two random cards. (I totally love how the Internet can answer […]

Posted 15 November 2016 § Family § Internet § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]

Posted 14 November 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Two Competing Views of the US Election Result

“I Voted For the Middle Finger, The Wrecking Ball” – The Atlantic I am tired of the machine rolling over us—all of us.  The Clinton machine, the Republican machine, the big media, investment banking, hedge fund carrying interest, corporatist, lobbying, influence peddling, getting elected and immediately begin fundraising for the next election machine—they can all […]

Posted 13 November 2016 § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – How To Take Maximum Advantage of An Unseasonably Warm Saturday in mid-November? #yqr

There’s lots of possibilities but these folks win by having a yard sale!

Posted 12 November 2016 § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 19 Totally Real Conversations Obama and Biden Have Had Since the Election

Not too much funny about the election results but this made me chuckle.

Posted 11 November 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “I’m Voting Obama” (November 2012)

Happier times… And when Cam Broten beat Ryan Meili by 44 votes out of thousands cast after Ryan was widely expected to win, I learned the hard way that you can never count someone out. I never thought Trump could beat Clinton but I never assumed it was a sure thing either.  In fact, I […]

Posted 10 November 2016 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,