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Friday Fun Link – 110 Random Facts I Had To Double Check To Believe

I asked my daughter what I should post for this week’s Friday Fun Link and she said “Search up ‘fun facts’ on YouTube”. This was the first result…

¶ Posted 12 November 2021 § Family § FridayFunLink § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, language, science

Friday Fun Link – The Literature Clock

This site is pretty cool – it tells you the time by showing a quote from a book that happens to reference whatever time it is at the moment…

¶ Posted 05 November 2021 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, education, language

It was being used a bit before Covid but the pandemic definitely made livestreaming a more common option for all sorts of major life events including birthdays, holidays, weddings and especially funerals. This has come in handy a few times recently – over the summer when a former coworker died of stage four breast cancer, […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Scary Science Facts – Even If It’s Halloween, Don’t Read This Thread If You Have Anxiety/Depression!

This thread probably isn’t a good one to read ever, let alone on the scariest day of the year! “Scientists of Reddit, what’s a scary science fact the public is generally unaware of?” Happy Halloween everyone! This one is of particular interest to Saskatchewan… If you think the pandemic was bad, this is possibly the […]

¶ Posted 31 October 2021 § List § Meme § News § Politics § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, holiday, science

A Few Random Thoughts From 2021 @Sask_NDP Virtual Convention

Shea and I signed up to attend the virtual Sask NDP convention this weekend. We’ve been to a handful of conventions over the years since our first in 2009 – mostly in years when there was a leadership vote but also as delegates from our constituency on occasion. (With that said, we’re not actively involved […]

¶ Posted 03 October 2021 § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history, saskatchewan

Calgary Flames Fans Debate Vaccine Requirements

This thread may be the biggest shit show in the history of CalgaryPuck, a Calgary Flames fan site/message board I’ve been reading since 2001. What starts as a discussion of the Jets announcing they’ll require proof of vaccination devolves as a series of antivaxxers keep popping up to make all sorts of logically and factually […]

¶ Posted 24 August 2021 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, Covid, education, health, hockey, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)

I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today. Had to chuckle for a couple reasons: […]

¶ Posted 17 June 2021 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Why Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Is So Good

Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]