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“Daddy, You Need Mommy To Give You ‘Talking Real’ Needles!”

Four years ago, I never imagined that I’d be laying in bed tonight with my perfect, wonderful son, having this conversation: “What am I made of, daddy?” “You’re made of lots of stuff – bones and muscles and skin.” “And what else?” “Well, did you know that most people are mostly made up of water?” […]

Posted 19 May 2011 § Family § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I used to come here when I was six/When everything hurt and I felt sick/There is something about the colder air/That made me feel better than anywhere”

We’re off to Calgary from Wednesday until early next week so it may be another blog holiday depending on how busy we are and what my Internet access is like at our various ports of call. In the meantime, here’s a song from one of my favourite artists I discovered when we lived in Cowtown.  […]

Posted 09 May 2011 § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”

We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]

Posted 04 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2011 Havana Book Fair Tour for Librarians, Writers and Bibliophiles

I missed it this year but I think it’s an annual event so maybe I’ll get to the Havana International Book Fair someday?

Posted 20 March 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

And Now A Message From Shane MacGowan…

…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.”  (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.

Posted 17 March 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Cuba Montage

Here’s a few more photos from our trip, set to one of Cuba’s most popular songs…

Posted 12 March 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Our Cuba Vacation (Before & After)

Posted 11 March 2011 § Family ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Justin Bieber: Canadian Statesman?

No, that post title is not a joke.  (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber and his recent rise to stardom fascinating. There’s the fact that he’s from Woodstock, ON, just down the road from London.  [Edit: I’m obviously not *that* fascinated […]

Posted 16 February 2011 § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player.  That eventually happened in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat the greatest Grandmaster of all-time Garry Kasparov (of course, computers had been beating inferior players for much longer – including ChessMaster 3000 […]

Posted 15 February 2011 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Yorkton to Regina in Five Minutes

A guy I went to elementary school with posted this time lapse video of the drive from Yorkton, SK to Regina, SK.  Normally about a two hour drive, this video condenses the trip to five minutes (and every time he passes a car will make you feel like you’re on a highway in Mexico for […]

Posted 04 February 2011 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,