We booked rooms at the local Travelodge for New Year’s Eve intending to do some watersliding with Shea’s parents, her aunt and Pace’s cousin. That’s what we did although when we went down to the pool and the pool attendant informed us that New Year’s Eve is their busiest day of the year in the […]
I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video. And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)
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 […]
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Posted 31 December 2012
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Tagged: atheism, book, cool, cute, economics, facebook, google, health, holiday, language, music, parents, saskatchewan, science, television, travel, unitedstates, wikipedia
January – “I’ve made no secret of my love of lists and how this is the best time of the year for lists.” February – “I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.” March – “My prediction? This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all.” April – “I’ve done some […]
Shea and I were cleaning out the basement today and came across the note I’d sent her mom acknowledging receipt of a damage deposit before Shea moved into a condo my family owned by U of R. I always joke that Shea couldn’t pay her rent one month and next thing I knew, we were […]
If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic. You may also want to check out […]
This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists? (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!) Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad! In my own […]
Like when I read articles like this one where I know the business and most people in the article including Greg and Simone. Side note – I’ve long advocated that libraries should integrate the same type of question that Pages bookstore asks all their new applicants.
I’m still continually amazed at Facebook as a communication tool and especially the varied ways that people use it, especially to share the most intimate details of their lives. (Is privacy dead?) Here are a few of the things I’ve personally witnessed that I found either unique and/or “Wow, I can’t believe they posted that!”… […]
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Posted 11 December 2012
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…is to come up with ideas that are the “first of a kind”. Last time, it was the idea for the Money Bomb (see #3 on the linked list) which was the first ever in Canadian politics. This time, it was putting forward the idea for a Reddit AMA which was the first ever by a Saskatchewan politician. Of […]
