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Is Hello Fresh Worth It?

Shea and I recently decided to give Hello Fresh a try. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s one of a few competing companies that have sprung up over the past decade or so that sends pre-packed supplies for making a single meal. Many of my friends swear by meal delivery services, referring to them […]

¶ Posted 12 January 2021 § Jobs § Randomness § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, food, health

FutureMe: Letters To The Future

I recently heard about this site that lets you write letters to yourself at some point in the future. The idea is for teachers to use it with students, grandparents with grandkids, spouses to each other or pretty much any combination you can think of. You have the option to make your letter public but […]

¶ Posted 01 January 2021 § Family § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history

Google’s 2020 Year in Search (And A Couple Other Year-in-Review Compilations Too)

And since it was such a memorable year, I’ll add a couple other “year in review” compilations…

¶ Posted 29 December 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history, unitedstates

Happy Cha-Noo-Kah!

For a small fee, Cameo is a site that allows people to book celebrities to record short personalized messages for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Cameo blew up during quarantine as people weren’t able to celebrate milestones in the usual way. This one of Smokey Robinson recording a message for someone has gone viral for being both […]

¶ Posted 16 December 2020 § Humour § Meme § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, holiday, language, music

Healthy Skepticism vs. Conspiracy Thinking – Where’s The Line?

I’ve long been an advocate for the importance of being skeptical as a generally useful approach to life. But, as the coronavirus has spread around the world over the past year, it’s also been fascinating (and alarming!) to see how often that line from genuine questioning crosses the line (and often goes completely off the cliff) […]

¶ Posted 09 December 2020 § Censorship § Meme § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Friday Fun Link – The Undertaker Eats Spicy Wings

I know I’ve highlighted the “First We Feast” web show before *including* when they had a different wrestler on. But given that Undertaker is one of the best known wrestlers of all-time, is about to retire this weekend thirty years after his first appearance at the same annual Survivor Series event, and he rarely breaks […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, wrestling

Friday Fun Link – This App Guesses Your Myers-Briggs Type Based On Your Reddit Posting History

I’m usually ENFP whenever I take the Myers-Briggs test and this app thinks I’m INTP so half right?

¶ Posted 16 October 2020 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

My Thoughts On Some Controversial Library Opinions

There was a good Twitter thread recently which posed a simple question: “What’s your controversial library opinion?” I thought it might be interesting to record some of my responses to these opinions whether I agreed or disagree (if this isn’t clear, all the bolded opinions below were submitted by Twitbrarians and the plain text under […]

¶ Posted 07 October 2020 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § Politics § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: education, language

Music Monday – “I got 500 dollars in cash in case they don’t take AMEX/She wanted to see me so now I’m headed to/The Annex Sorority house, she snuck me in, she tried to/Keep quiet, couldn’t hold it in”

Pretty cool that a U of R grad has hit the top of the BBC Asian music charts and gone viral on TikTok with this song… “Young Shahrukh” – Tesher

¶ Posted 28 September 2020 § Canada § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My First Ever Amazon Order (August 1997)

Was digging through the depths of my computer’s hard drive and came across a pretty amazing find…the email receipt I got for my first ever order from Amazon back in summer 1997. A few things to note… not sure why but I used my work email address for the order when I’m pretty sure I […]