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 […]
I don’t know if Ryan Meili will win the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race. But as one of his supporters told me recently, we’re not not just leading in fundraising, we’re leading in “fun” raising and “friend” raising. And win or lose, that’s the kind of campaign I’m proud to be a part of and the […]
…otherwise the following could be quite embarrASSing! 😉
Very interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Obama’s Reddit AMA was proposed, how it happened and how it impacted his campaign. This was a day of political-campaign and Internet firsts, the sitting president subjecting himself to a free- for-all question-and-answer session with a hardcore community of pot-smoking freedom junkies who hated drones and loved porn and […]
I honestly thought this was a fake news headline from The Onion when I saw it in my Twitter feed. Â Turns out it’s a story from the New York Times! (Now where’d I leave that bag of Doritos?)
We booked rooms at the local Travelodge for New Year’s Eve intending to do some watersliding with Shea’s parents, her aunt and Pace’s cousin. Â That’s what we did although when we went down to the pool and the pool attendant informed us that New Year’s Eve is their busiest day of the year in the […]
I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… Â (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video. Â And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)
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 […]
Shea and I were cleaning out the basement today and came across the note I’d sent her mom acknowledging receipt of a damage deposit before Shea moved into a condo my family owned by U of R. I always joke that Shea couldn’t pay her rent one month and next thing I knew, we were […]
If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic. Â You may also want to check out […]
