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2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed […]

Posted 31 December 2012 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds.  Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, […]

Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Happy 12/12/12

I’m posting this on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm (okay, I’m jiggering the time stamp so it appears like I posted it on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm.) (How’d I miss such an obvious post for today?)  

Posted 12 December 2012 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Happy Holidays from FSM!

Posted 05 December 2012 § Humour § Internet § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

How To Eat Corn on the Cob in 10 Seconds

This had me laughing and laughing for some reason when I first saw it… I mean, with stuff like that, I always wonder “what is the thought process that leads someone to try something like this for the first time?” (h/t CP)

Posted 02 December 2012 § Canada § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Funniest Wedding Grand Entrance Video Ever

There’s a whole sub-genre on YouTube of creative, funny, artistic wedding grand entrance & first dance videos. The one below is right up there in all three categories and bonus, it was shot by a couple in Lethbridge… Their proposal video is pretty good too, evoking one of my favourites of that kind, the World’s […]

Posted 30 November 2012 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Love Everybody

A pretty heart-warming video, even if I’ve been trained to be cynical enough about videos like this that at the end I thought it was probably a viral video for Coke! (Turns out it’s a charitable foundation called Love Everybody). (via LyinRPL)  

Posted 16 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Battle of the #skndpldr YouTube Videos

Just before the Sask NDP leadership campaign started, I compared a variety of social media metrics for each of the potential candidates. Now that we’re a couple months into things, I thought I’d revisit this idea but with a twist. Instead of looking up all of the numbers (and how they’ve changed) for each candidate […]

Posted 15 November 2012 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – How Much Did It Cost Google To Stream “Gangnam Style” 600 Million Times? Did They Make a Profit?

[Edit: This video is now poised to be the first YouTube clip to reach 1 billion views, amazingly in less than six months!] [Edit2: Some further analysis of the revenue Gangnam created.] “Gangnam Style”, a quirky Korean pop song with a very “uniquely” stylish video is the second most watched clip in the history of […]

Posted 02 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

“Binders Full of Women” – The Musical Version

Also this.

Posted 18 October 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,