Category Archives: List

Friday Fun Link – Words For That

Friday’s aren’t too fun when you’ve got four family members in various states of illness (and having two kids sick is a lot different experience than just one!) so here’s a quick link before hitting the hay (and hoping everybody can sleep through the night tonight!) Words For That

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Each Month in 2013

This is always one of my favourite posts of the year for the uniquely random spin it puts on a “year in review” type post. .  Click on the month below if one of the “first lines” grabs your attention… January – “As he did in 2009, Ryan Meili is once again spearheading an extremely […]

Christmas 2013: By The Numbers

I haven’t blogged for a few days as I got overwhelmed and busy with that “real life” thing as Shea’s folks and mine joined us from the 27th until the 29th to have a belated Christmas together.  Here are a few numbers from the past week… 0 – number of times I’ve left the house […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 17 – God Is Love

Just kidding…he’s kind of an evil asshole:

Life Hacks: What’s Something I Can Learn Right Now in Ten Minutes That Will Be Useful for the Rest of My Life?

Various cool life hacks from Quora, Reddit, Buzzfeed, a whole Life Hacks web site  – plus a list of unethical life hacks, also from Reddit.                                                               (I’ll have […]

An Analysis of My YouTube Channel

I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2006.   This was the year we got our first digital camera.  It was also the year when I was doing my Masters degree so I was very interested in all kinds of online services including online broadcasting.  We were also living far from home so it was […]

A Few Ideas for #Riders Merchandise I Want To See Now That They’ve Won The #GreyCup #cfl #yqr

The Riders are already the third most successful team in terms of selling merchandise in Canada, behind only the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Laffs.  That’s partly because there isn’t much you can’t buy without the Riders logo on it. The Riders’ unprecedented success can also be attributed to a significant expansion in products, thanks […]

How To Not Give A Fuck

An illustrated guide to not giving a fuck…

Friday Fun Link – 50 (or is that 100?) Scariest Books of All-Time

I meant to post this list of the 50 Scariest Books yesterday on Halloween but ended up putting a cute picture of the kids instead. So maybe, as punishment, I’ll post a list of the 100 Scariest Books of All-Time instead? 😉

RIP Lou Reed (And A List of My Top Five Concerts – Which Doesn’t Include The Lou Reed Show I Saw in Toronto Unfortunately)

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. – Brian Eno Growing up and living most of my life on the bald Saskatchewan prairie, my opportunities to see certified rock legends have been extremely limited. Luckily, in June 2000, I was in Toronto for a publishing […]