Though this recent clip only popped up on my Facebook feed the other day, it did remind me of my time in Alberta (2001-2004) when I worked with the Writers Guild of Alberta where part of my work included helping jointly plan the annual Alberta Book Awards with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Haven’t […]
Can the Oilers threepeat as Stanley Cup Final losers? God, I hope not. My heart can’t take it. Hope they miss the playoffs completely! Someone take the phone away from this rebel right now ?????#TimeToHunt pic.twitter.com/5etr23MlMA — David (@David954FLA) June 20, 2025 AI but still funny…
Definitely don’t listen to the politicians. And even many of the medical professionals misunderstand the ongoing risks. If you want to know the true status of Covid, listen to the insurance actuaries whose whole business model is predicated on predicting the actual financial costs of Covid to their companies (no different than insurance companies increasingly […]
On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I’m thinking about some of the conflicted views I hold. For instance, my dad recently completed the sale of our family farm that was previously Indigenous land. I have already and will continue to benefit greatly from the sale of that land while Indigenous people continue to fight […]
“(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” was released thirty years ago this week and after years of acrimony, Oasis is in the middle of a massive reunion tour with rumours that it’s going to be extended into 2026. One of the major highlights of my entire life was being in England in fall 1995 during the […]
I’ve been heavily involved in a variety of major changes for those I love most in the past three years – my mom is now in a care home because of her dementia, my dad has finished the sale of the last quarter of land from the farm that’s been in our family since 1883 […]
Today was my 17th anniversary of starting work at RPL and, coincidentally, I spent it in bargaining all day as a representative of CUPE1594 (not going to lie – a bit sad no one on management side congratulated me!) 😉 Anyhow, I thought it might be a fun exercise to randomly pick the first 17 […]
Got my future overlord, ChatGPT, to do a bit of analysis of my blog posts in light of being an ENFP personality who has kept the blog up for ~20 years. Here’s what Nova Fox (the name we came up for ChatGPT last night – I’m having way too much fun with AI these days!)… […]
Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid? Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to keep this blog going as I sometimes struggle to come up with content (even lazy, zero-effort stuff) and/or find the time to post. At the same time, […]
Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up" pic.twitter.com/v8MrNpg28w — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2025
