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Friday Fun Link – (Over The) Moon Palace, Cancun #ThePalaceLife

Shea, the kids and I are planning to go on a winter holiday with my parents next February. My folks and I went in to talk to the CAA Travel Agent earlier this week (my thought: “People still use travel agents?” My parents’ thought: “You book all your travel online?”) Going in, we had […]

¶ Posted 29 September 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: allinclusive, economics, holiday, parents, travel

Friday Fun Link – The Definitive Ranking of Every Tragically Hip Song

Lots to argue with here but points for even trying to make this list (the author strikes on an interesting conceit to make it work, grouping songs thematically to count them down.)

¶ Posted 22 September 2017 § Canada § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Friday Fun Link – “Google.com” Was Registered Twenty Years Ago Today

At the time, I never thought I’d leave AltaVista, which is retroactively recognized as the “Google of Its Time“.

¶ Posted 15 September 2017 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, google, history

Friday Fun Link – People Share Their Favourite Work Email Snark Phrases

I admit to both sending and receiving many of these over the years.

¶ Posted 01 September 2017 § Humour § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: language

Friday Fun Link – r/solareclipse

We were out at the lake all weekend and just got back today (Tuesday) but I’m going to do a few quick backdated posts for the past few days starting with the Friday Fun Link I missed – Reddit’s r/solareclipse sub-Reddit which actually works really well as a delayed link because it now has lots of […]

¶ Posted 18 August 2017 § Internet § Meme § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, science

Friday Fun Link – 39 s’Mores Hacks That Will Change Your Life

Of course Buzzfeed has the perfect listicle for this topic. We’ve tried a few s’mores variations ourselves with a current favourite being “Exploding s’moreos” where we not only use an Oreo instead of a graham cracker but also the limited edition Fireworks Oreos that have pop rocks candy mixed in!