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10 Fun and/or Memorable and/or Unique Things To Do With Your New Baby

Take a photo of your new baby every day after they’re born Or you can take a photo of the baby every few months with a favourite doll Write a book for your new baby Write them a song (I won’t put audio of this one but the song I’ve sung to both Pace and […]

¶ Posted 11 July 2013 § Baby § Family § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Because Imagination Has An Unlimited Budget For Special Effects

GRRM, a producer on the “Game of Thrones” TV show provides a great visual example of why books are almost always so much better than TV/movies. This is a comparison of the artist’s rendering of his vision of The Iron Throne and what they eventually got… [Edit: I’m an idiot – GRRM is an acronym […]

¶ Posted 10 July 2013 § Library § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, economics, television

Music Monday – “I like a pop song sober in the afternoon/I like a chord hanging down when I’m in the nude”

What better songs to post for Canada Day than a couple tracks from a new Canadian super group called “The Mounties”? The group features Hawksley Workman, one of my favourite Canadian musicians of all-time and the video for their first single contains a few prominent shots of the Canadian flag: “Headphones” – The Mounties …while their […]

¶ Posted 01 July 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

What’s Different In Canada?

Happy Canada Day!

¶ Posted 30 June 2013 § Canada ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, hockey, language, science, television, weather

Some of The Best Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) Chat Sessions of All-Time (And The Absolute Worst)

Reddit has a recurring feature where notable (and not-so-notable) people can show up for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) interactive chat session. [2013-08-26 – Update: This probably isn’t too surprising but there’s some strong evidence that many celebrity AMA’s – including the Ethan Hawke one listed below – are actually done by a PR person, […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2013 § Internet § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: reddit

Discussing Pace’s First Day of Kindergarten

Hard to believe that tomorrow is Pace’s kindergarten graduation. The past year has flown by in so many ways – when the year started, Pace was an only child; now he’s a big brother. When the year started, he was still working on learning his alphabet, now he’s regularly writing out complete sentences (phonetically – […]

¶ Posted 23 June 2013 § Pace § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cute, parents

Friday Fun Link – My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter

This Pinterest site takes photos of youngsters dressed in fashionable clothes and provides hilarious write-ups to narrate the life of Quinoa, the trendy perfect child of trendy perfect parents. Funny stuff. Everything went fine at Quinoa’s playdate with Booker until she realized that when he said he loved vinyl, he meant jackets not vintage records.