Okay, after tomorrow, I promise the 40th birthday-themed entries will stop! (Probably.) But I did want to recap how my day went at work. RPL has a tradition of passing along a pink flamingo to whoever is celebrating a milestone birthday (for some reason I only thought it went to people celebrating their 50th […]
Yes parents, most concerns, competitive instincts and crying jags can be allayed if you too decide to practice “Calm the Fuck Down” parenting. 😉 Worried your friend’s child has mastered the alphabet quicker than your child? Calm the f*ck down. Scared you’re not imparting the wisdom your child will need to survive in school and beyond? Calm […]
Continuing my birthday week festivities, thought it might be nice to review my posts on July 18 since this blog started… 2012 – Average Canadian Male Life Expectancy = 78 (Happy 39th Birthday To Me!) 2011 – A Montage Video of Various “Paranoid Android” Covers on YouTube – obviously my birthday wasn’t front and centre that […]
And a father’s prayer too (especially that part about not lying with drummers)… 😉
This one made the rounds on social media awhile back but I’m posting it here for truth – I agree with pretty much everything on this list!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
