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Category Archives: Meme

Will Kids Be Playing Kronum in the Schoolyard in 50 Years Instead of Soccer or Basketball?

Kronum is a new sport that combines elements of football, rugby, basketball, handball and even Quidditch to create what players are hoping grows to become the first big league sport created in over a century. Personally, I think organizers may have hurt themselves right off-the-bat by creating a sport with a circular field, very unique […]

Posted 12 November 2013 § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” (This Isn’t A Movie Anymore; It’s A Warning)

Do you know the connection between Guy Fawkes, the movie “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous movement?  Or that today, was the Million Mask March at locations around the world? If you do, you probably also understand why a variety of worldwide movements and groups – from Anonymous to Occupy to WikiLeaks among others – are […]

Posted 05 November 2013 § Politics § PopCulture § UK § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

YouTube Music Awards

Another big step in the convergence of traditional and new media broadcasting as the YouTube Music Awards – their version of the Grammys/American Music Awards/etc. – happened tonight  with a focus on songs that have been heavily viewed and/or gone viral on YouTube.

Posted 03 November 2013 § Censorship § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

17 Misused and Made-Up Words That Make You Rage

I’m horrified to learn I’m guilty of using at least a couple of these on a regular basis.  I won’t tell you which ones but I will observe that it’s hot enough today that I could really go for some sherbert.  😉

Posted 08 October 2013 § Humour § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Oh My God! Holy Shit!! Jesus Christ!!! (aka My Reaction To Tonight’s Episode of “Breaking Bad”)

Someone on Reddit posted their girlfriend’s reaction at various points during tonight’s episode of “Breaking Bad” and I’d concur… Fans are already calling it “the greatest episode of television in history” and I’d say if not, it’s pretty damn close! Like the majority of the show’s millions of fans, Shea and I came late to […]

Posted 15 September 2013 § Photo § PopCulture § Shea ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff…   And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…

Posted 05 September 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Politics § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “It’s our party we can do what we want/It’s our party we can say what we want.”

So everybody’s talking about the raunchy Miley Cyrus performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (including perhaps the weirdest MetaFilter thread ever where a discussion of whether the Miley Cyrus performance is pushing the “real” news about Syria off of front pages leads to a long parallel thread that jumps back and forth with people alternating […]

Posted 26 August 2013 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 15 Unmistakeable Outrageously Secret Signs You’re An Extrovert

With all the recent books, blog posts and articles about the care and feeding of introverts, I thought this response from an extrovert’s point of view was pretty funny (and true!)

Posted 23 August 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Camping at Crooked Lake

Spending a couple nights camping at beautiful Crooked Lake, one of the few campgrounds I know with lakeside sites. Wish I’d seen this list of camping hacks before we’d arrived!

Posted 22 August 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – A Pink Flamingo Appears: My Birthday at RPL

  Okay, after tomorrow, I promise the 40th birthday-themed entries will stop!  (Probably.)   But I did want to recap how my day went at work. RPL has a tradition of passing along a pink flamingo to whoever is celebrating a milestone birthday (for some reason I only thought it went to people celebrating their 50th […]

Posted 20 July 2013 § Humour § Work ‡ Comments (0) °