Category Archives: MemoryLane

Music Monday – “The splash of October swimmers/The cheers of Helsinki winners/My bare bones of futility/Leaking marrow of ability”

The leaves on the trees are turning, we’ve been out “leaf crunching” as Pace calls it and I agree with Shea that “if it wasn’t followed by winter, fall might just be my favourite season”.  I don’t know if this Britpop one hit wonder has anything to do with the autumn but it’s called “October […]

If The Recent Changes to Facebook’s Newsfeed Pissed You Off…

…you don’t want to hear about the sweeping changes they announced today during their annual developer’s conference! Some of the new features include: Timeline-style profile pages New class of apps that share automatically Watch videos with friends through Facebook Discover new music based on what your friends are listening to Read news articles within Facebook […]

R.E.M. Breaks Up (and My Five Favourite Bands of all Time)

R.E.M., an alternative favourite of the 1980’s who parlayed that early attention into being one of the most successful bands of the 1990’s (and then one of the most uneven bands of the 2000’s) announced their break-up today (given their politics – and the amicable nature of the break – perhaps fittingly on World Peace […]

Random Thoughts from the Indian Head-Milestone NDP Fundraiser

Shea and I were out to Indian Head yesterday to take in a fundraiser for the local NDP candidate in this year’s Provincial Election with guest speaker, Dr. Ryan Meili (plus a pretty amazing special guest speaker too.) Here’s some random thoughts… – we heard about the fundraiser at a wedding in IH about a […]

Saturday Snap – The Karate Kid

Odd/Quirky Ways To Be The Best Dad Possible?

Reddit weighs in on this question.  Personally, I really like that “Enact a 6pm is dancing time – every night!” idea (though it’d likely have to be a different time since we’re watching the news at that time.)   I don’t know if this is odd/quirky but a lot of times, I just like to […]

Some Thoughts on The 10th Anniversary of 9/11

There’s a lot of commentary today online, in other media and at memorials around the world.   So instead of adding to the noise, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of some of the most interesting things I’ve seen… (Oh, okay – I’ll quickly do my own “Where were you when?” story since I […]

Saturday Snap – Pace Goes Off The Diving Board

Friday Fun Link – Dig A Hole To The Other Side of the World

I’m sure everybody’s wondered where they’d end up if they could dig a hole directly through to the other side of the earth.  In fact, I think the official playground ruling on this immortal question, at least for anyone contemplating this question in Canada, is “China”. Now, technology allows you to answer that exact question […]

Happy RPL-a-versary to Me!

Today is my three year anniversary of starting work at RPL.  A few stream-of-unconscious thoughts and observations… 1. I started working for the Writers Guild of Alberta at almost the exact same time of year – I know because I was in their office doing my initial training a couple days before September 11.  (I’ve […]