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Monthly Archives April 2021

Friday Fun Link – How Long Would It Take To Hack Your Password?

You don’t have to submit your password – just type it into the box on this site and it will tell you how long it would take a computer to guess it. If you’re nervous about testing your own passwords, use something similar eg. instead of “password”, use “massward” or whatever.)

Posted 30 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Fun at the Family Farm (August 2008)

Posted 29 April 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Reasons To Go Back to School / Reasons Not To Go Back To School

  Regina Public Schools to return to in-class learning on May 3, 2021. https://t.co/YZayV5QOJv pic.twitter.com/OHaAUGGPED — Regina Public Schools (@RegPublicSchool) April 26, 2021 Regina Public Schools has announced that students will return to school on May 3 and there is lots of debate on social media and elsewhere about the decision. Five Reasons It’s Good […]

Posted 28 April 2021 § List § News § Pace § Politics § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Another “First Sign of Spring”?

A bug landed in my beer…feels like I’m camping already! 😉 (And yes, I scooped it out and kept on drinking – no tiny bug is going to make me waste a $5 craft beer!)

Posted 27 April 2021 § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Wishing I was kissing/A girl with lips smooth as pearl/Wishing I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world round my finger/Wishing I had money/Wishing for the time to spend it all”

“Wish I Were Skinny” – Boo Radleys

Posted 26 April 2021 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

RIP Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940-2021

PICTURES OF THE DEAD (from “Dark Halo”) The dead leave us only images of themselves: souvenirs in washed out colours, dried petals pressed in family albums, shadows that stain our papered walls.  They abandon us in our rooms, teach us how to converse with dust, will not let us forget them. But in our glistening reeds […]

Posted 25 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Self Portrait

Posted 24 April 2021 § Family § Humour § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – How Much Do Musicians Make From Streaming?

Not “really” fun, especially if you’re a musician, but this tool is definitely interesting to estimate how much musicians gets compensated for their streaming music and how the amounts differ depending on the service.

Posted 23 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hands (April 2013)

Sasha, Pace and I comparing hand sizes a week after she was born…

Posted 22 April 2021 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Nanoleaf Aurora Light Panels

I haven’t hidden my ongoing interest in smart devices.  One product that caught my attention were Nanoleaf light panels but even by smart device standards, they’re pretty pricey.  Fortunately, I set-up an alert on Facebook Marketplace and the other day, I found a young guy who was selling not just one but two sets which […]

Posted 21 April 2021 § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,