A few years back, Canada ranked #1 in a UN survey of the best countries in the world to live in. That same year, a similar study ranked Saskatchewan as the best province in Canada to live in. So in honour of Canada Day (and with that sentiment in mind), I present the following list.Of […]
I'm not sure if I put Pace to sleep tonight or he put me to sleep but at 8pm, we were both in bed, crashed out. So that means I wake up now and am going to be completely messed up tomorrow. Oh well – the same thing we always say when he naps at […]
Entertainment Weekly magazine is one of my guilty pleasures. In fact, I had a subscription to it in the early 1990's right after it began publication. And I was surprised to see that last week's issue marked its 1000th issue! I still read EW on a fairly regular basis but now it's visits to the […]
“What is a cult book? We tried and failed to arrive at a definition: books often found in the pockets of murderers; books that you take very seriously when you are 17; books whose readers can be identified to all with the formula “<Author Name> whacko”; books our children just won’t get…”50 best cult books […]
I think I first heard about “The Last Lecture” via a book request we got at the library. The Amazon page for the book has more info including a couple video clips explaining the background and significance of this particular Last Lecture. A bit more searching revealed that the full video of the original Last […]
Today, I went to the wind-up of Time To Read, a joint project of Southeast Regional Library and the Prairie Valley School Division. I was part of the initial steering committee for this project which started last summer but had to reduce my role when I went on the road for most of January, February […]
Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC. I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo! On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]
As you may have noticed in the Flickr pics from Pace's birthday, my “winter beard” is gone (“winter beard” being a very loose definition – some years it doesn't appear until January as happened this year, some years it sticks around for pretty much 11 months as I think was the case while I was […]
“For all the creativity and innovation that goes into making (some) Hollywood films, there are also a lot of ideas that get recycled time and time again. I’m not referring to stock characters or the sequalitis that hits multiplexes every summer. I’m talking about the basic building blocks of storytelling that are ingrained in the […]
Whenever one of those “100 Books You Must Read” lists come out, I'm always a bit ashamed that, even as a former English major, I find that I've barely read any of them.But now, finally, a list where I have read, well, about the same proportion as any other “Top 100 Books” list. 100 Must-Read […]
