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Saturday Snap – Happy Father’s Day!

Everybody in this photo has two doses of vaccine (except our teen who has one and our kid who isn’t eligible yet.) Feels really good to get close together on the couch for a family picture before a delicious steak supper!

¶ Posted 19 June 2021 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, cute, holiday, parents

Friday Fun Link – The Covid-19 Vaccine Explained

¶ Posted 18 June 2021 § News § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)

I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today. Had to chuckle for a couple reasons: […]

¶ Posted 17 June 2021 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Why Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Is So Good

Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2021 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, movies, music

Wouldn’t It Be Funny If Anti-Vaxxers Were Just People Who Are Really Scared of Needles?

¶ Posted 15 June 2021 § Internet § Meme § News § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Music Monday – “Whereas some of us weren’t always fair/To the Native kid on borrowed skates/Chippy Goolies and Ukrainians/In the corners with our elbows up”

Goolie was originally a derogatory term referring to people of Icelandic descent who settled in Manitoba. The derivation of the word remains a mystery. The most plausible origin I encountered while researching When Falcons Fly was that the first Icelandic settlers had thick Norse accents and pronounced the word “goalie” as “goolie.” Interestingly, the word […]

¶ Posted 14 June 2021 § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey, language, sports

Secular Sunday – An Addiction Model May Explain A Lot of Our Current Societal Issues (That Don’t Normally Seem Like Addiction Issues)

This is a fascinating thread which encompasses a lot of interesting ideas – tribalism, how people get sucked further into wilder conspiracy theories, and even whether QAnon is showing signs of moving from a fringe political theory into a full-fledged religion. it’s conceivable to conceptualize political tribalism (& perhaps even cultism), through an addiction model […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2021 § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, Covid, education, language, science

Saturday Snap – Witch In-Law is Witch?

My in-laws having some fun at our campsite…

¶ Posted 12 June 2021 § Family § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping

Friday Fun Link – Fair Dealing Decision Tool (Maybe?)

Somebody sent this tool around at work so I thought I’d post it here (though if you know how I feel about copyright, you’ll know that I’m also not the best person to ask about whether something falls under copyright or not as I have a *very* generous understanding of what constitutes “fair dealing”!) 🙂

¶ Posted 11 June 2021 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Grade Eight Graduation (May 2007)

This little baby is about to graduate Grade Eight in a couple weeks! (And my mask is very fashionable – who knew that fourteen years later, I’d be wearing one every day!) 😉 And yes, the rotating seasonal display in the alcove at the entrance to our house has become a temporary shrine to the […]