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Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire

A Business Week profile of the Sriracha Hot Sauce company including its founder, its history and some reasons why its been so successful. My own introduction to the fabled hot sauce was fairly typical – when I started working at the Sask Publishers Group, my boss took me for Vietnamese food (is it possible I […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2013 § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, unitedstates

Dying Man’s Wish – Leave $500 Tip on a Pizza Order

I’m not sure if this fits as a May Day story or not but I like the sentiment – people who do tough jobs for very little reward sometimes deserve to be surprised with some over-the-top generosity (although there’s also a flip side argument that if we paid decent wages to our servers, tipping wouldn’t […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2013 § Jobs § Meme § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, unitedstates

Happy Two Week Birthday, Sasha!

You don’t look a day over a week and a half! 😉

¶ Posted 30 April 2013 § Baby § Family § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dreams” (“Angels” by Sam Baker – A Song for Bombing Victims Everywhere)

Sam Baker is an amazing songwriter I discovered while attending the Fred Eaglesmith Charity picnic in Alymer, Ontario in 2006. Part of what makes him so amazing is that he really shouldn’t even be here, having survived a bombing that killed three other people while riding on a train in Peru in 1986. That experience […]

¶ Posted 29 April 2013 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, philosophy

Saturday Snap – Mom’s Lifetime Membership in SUN (and some thoughts on where she’s influenced me – it might not be where you’d expect!)

One benefit of being home with the baby for a couple weeks was that Shea, Sasha and I were able to slip out one afternoon earlier this week for one of Sasha’s first-ever outings. We snuck into the SUN AGM & Conference to see my mom receive a Lifetime Membership from the organization (she’d also […]

¶ Posted 27 April 2013 § Family § Jobs § Library § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, orgdevl, parents, saskatchewan

I’m a Dad – Random Thoughts About Sasha’s First Day (On Her One Week Birthday)

So as much as I’d like to just keep posting pictures of Sasha, eventually I’ve got to get back to blog posts that have “letters” and “words” rather than cute pictures. A good place to start would be with a look back at that first day, inspired partly by many of the notes I scribbled […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2013 § Baby § Humour § Internet § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: economics, facebook, health, parents