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Monthly Archives March 2017

Saturday Snap – Snapchat Cuties

I’ve known SnapChat as a trendy app for young people who are avoiding parents/grandparents on Facebook but never really used it. Leave it to Pace to give me a tour of some of its functionality…

¶ Posted 11 March 2017 § Family § Humour § Internet § Meme § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

A Father’s Interview With the BBC Goes Very Wrong (With Analysis of the Net’s Latest Viral Video)

This clip has gone viral, obviously because every parent can relate to their kids innocently managing to mess everything up. And here’s some analysis of the clip, section-by-section. [Edit: And it turns out there’s some other analysis which says that this video is a good test to see if you’re racist or not. If you think […]

¶ Posted 10 March 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, parents, television

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – NDP Future Looks Bright (October 2012)

In October 2012, during the Sask NDP Leadership race, I was able to attend a forum that happened at Arcola, Saskatchewan and which featured three of the four leadership candidates. At the time, only Trent Wotherspoon was an elected member of Parliament. Now, Erin Weir is the MP for Regina-Lewvan and Ryan Meili is the […]

¶ Posted 09 March 2017 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

A Few Thoughts From #rally4sk #skpoli

I work in the north end but happened to have a couple meetings in the south end this afternoon so was able to swing by the big labour rally that was happening at the Legislative Building over the lunch hour to protest the Sask Party’s fiscal mismanagement and targeting of public service workers. Here’s a […]

¶ Posted 08 March 2017 § Humour § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan

Ten Random Things

Ryan Meili won the byelection in Saskatoon Meewasin and was sworn into the Legislature yesterday. In completely unrelated news, Brad Wall had a press conference today about wanting to cut public sector salaries by 3.5% while sounding like someone who knew he’s stuck around for one election too long and was about to tarnish what was […]

¶ Posted 07 March 2017 § Canada § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, food, health, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “And they get terribly upset/When you question their sacred texts/Written by woman-hating epileptics/Their languages just serve to confuse them/Their confusion somehow makes them more sure”

I’d heard of Father John Misty before but didn’t know much about him. But I was pretty impressed with the second song he did on Saturday Night Live this past weekend – sort of reminds me of the first time I heard Bright Eyes sing “Landlocked Blues” on some late night CBC show. “Pure Comedy” […]