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(Pre) FTRW 2013 – On Offensive Words

Freedom to Read Week starts next week but since a couple of my colleagues my colleagues were on CTV Morning Live today promoting RPL’s various offerings (including a great event you should take in tomorrow night if you’re anywhere near Regina), I thought I’d start things off a bit early too with a very relevant quote […]

Posted 21 February 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

RIP Aaron Swartz (1986 – 2013)

There are two kinds of Internet celebrities – those who get famous for something they did online (anyone from Justin Bieber to Psy to Paris Hilton and so on.) Then there are Internet celebrities who are famous for what they’ve *continually* do online (anyone from Cory Doctorow to Lawrence Lessig to Julian Assange and so […]

Posted 13 January 2013 § Internet § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – I Hope Overdrive Isn’t Recommending E-books Based on My Personal Reading History…

…otherwise the following could be quite embarrASSing! 😉

Posted 12 January 2013 § Humour § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

A Censored Girl’s Name? How Timely!

Seeing that Iceland has a list of approved names for boys and girls and that they’ve taken away the name of a 15-year old girl that somehow slipped through their bureaucracy after being baptized with an unapproved name initially, makes me want to name our baby Blaer just on principle! (Except I have an objection […]

Posted 03 January 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Pube Juice

This is kind of dumb but for some reason, Shea and I were absolutely killing ourselves reading these out loud tonight!

Posted 19 December 2012 § Humour § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Differences Between Christmas Concerts For Pace and The Elementary School-Aged Me

Pace had his first Christmas concert (actually “concerts” – see #5 below) today. That got me thinking about the ways they’ve changed since I was a kid. [Edit: Someone pointed out many of the differences are as much about rural vs. urban approaches as generational which is probably true.] First off, when I was a […]

Posted 18 December 2012 § Humour § List § Pace § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Holiday Concert

Pace saw a YouTube video of the song he’s doing for his school Christmas holiday concert and decided he needed to jazz up his look too!

Posted 15 December 2012 § Family § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Outdoor Coed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society

You know you’re old and married when you’re more interested in what books they’re reading than the other “boo” word that’s being featured in these photos!  😉

Posted 14 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,