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Friday Fun Link – Macca!!! (And Ten Songs I’m Most Excited To Hear At His #YQR Concert)

I’m already on record that The Beatles are my favourite band of all-time. At the same time, I’ve never seen any of them live (not even Ringo!) 😉 I almost got my chance last November when Paul McCartney was in Edmonton and a friend ended up with an extra pair of tickets. But he ended […]

Posted 26 April 2013 § List § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – History of NHL Video Games (1991-2012)

Lots of nostalgia in the video below… NHL 94 is the obvious classic of the bunch but I probably spent more time playing EA NHL 2000 than any other video game in my life. Nothing spectacular about that particular game – just came at a time when I had lots of free time (no kids!), […]

Posted 12 April 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sports § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Share Some Unique/Insightful Ways You’ve Heard A Child Verbalize Something That’s Become Part of Your Own Vocabulary

Pace’s portmanteau word “ness” is one of the most upvoted comments on this Reddit question although all of the answers are great (with that said, I’m glad it wasn’t my kid who liked to say “cockporn” instead of “popcorn”!)

Posted 05 April 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Amazing Sound & Water Experiment

This is pretty cool…

Posted 15 March 2013 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 6 – #ftrweek – I’m Going To Hell For This

/r/ImGoingToHellForThis is a sub-Reddit dedicated to “Tasteless “politically incorrect” dark, offensive, & twisted humor of all types is welcome here. Absolutely NOTHING & NOBODY is sacred, taboo, or beyond being joked about.” aka a perfect way to end Freedom to Read Week.

Posted 01 March 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 16 Great Library Scenes in Film

I finally realized why I like “The Breakfast Club” so much – the whole movie is set in a library! 😉

Posted 22 February 2013 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Which Fan Theories Blew Your Mind With Their Logic?

Fan theories are alternate ideas/interpretations for movies, music, books, etc. One of the top-rated AskReddit threads of all time asked for people’s favourites.  That got responses including this one which blew my mind.  (Warning: these fan theories often will change your perspective on beloved pop culture items in a way that you’ll never be able […]

Posted 01 February 2013 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun (?) Link – What Would It Feel Like For A Man To Be In Labour?

Shea kindly sent me this video of a couple young Dutch men who volunteered to have electrodes put on their abdomen to simulate the increasingly painful contractions of labour. It’s not in English but I’d say pain is a pretty universal language – although if I’m being a smart-ass, I’d also wonder if they were […]

Posted 18 January 2013 § Baby § Humour § Shea § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Sea Turtles at Anini Beach, Hawaii

Since I chose swimming with turtles on Anini Beach on the north shore of Kauai as the highlight of 2012 for me (see question #40), I thought I’d mark the one year anniversary of our departure on that trip with a video of that memorable moment…

Posted 11 January 2013 § MemoryLane § Shea § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video…  (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video.  And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

Posted 04 January 2013 § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,