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Owning People Online Is The Left’s Path To Victory

  According to recent polling, a staggeringly small portion of the 22-to-45-year-old demographic watches cable news, and in fact almost 50 percent of young people do not watch traditional TV at all, instead opting to get their content from online streaming services, social media, and the like. I’ve been a big believer in the power of the […]

Posted 17 July 2018 § Internet § News § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Camping Before the rPod (July 2011)

Shea’s parents had a motorhome that we borrowed a few times including a trip to White Bear in southeast Saskatchewan…

Posted 12 July 2018 § Family § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “We’re just two lost souls/Swimming in a fish bowl/Year after year”

Not sure if they’ll upload it or not but if they do, I’ll replace this clip with the slideshow they showed at my cousin’s funeral on Saturday… “Wish You Were Here” – Pink Floyd

Posted 09 July 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RIP Cousin

While camping a couple summers ago, we got word that, after years battling a variety of health issues, one of my dad’s ten siblings had started to fail and passed away soon after. Considering that dad was from a family of ten kids and all of his siblings had managed to reach their late 60s, […]

Posted 05 July 2018 § Family § Sad § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Protesting at the Saskatchewan Legislature, Then & Now (February 11, 2000) #skpoli #yqr

From my personal journal, February 11, 2000: Settle in to bed (well, a sleeping bag under a cafeteria table) about midnight. Oh, when we get back from grabbing our sleeping bags, I offer to bring a coffee to the security guard and end up having a big talk with him – about how he got […]

Posted 28 June 2018 § Canada § Family § List § News § Photo § Politics § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Carnival Scam Science

I wish I’d watched this video before we took the kids to a local carnival a couple weeks ago. I’ve always known the games were rigged towards the operator and had a general sense of how they are – mostly by playing with the size and shape of the game pieces – smaller rims, longer […]

Posted 26 June 2018 § Family § Pace § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Rider Game at Taylor Field (July 2012)

Thinking of our tour of the new Mosaic Stadium yesterday, here’s a pic from a game we went to a few years ago in the old Taylor Field (not sure how we got such great seats – think we bought them last minute off Kijiji?)

Posted 21 June 2018 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Ferris Wheel Smile (June 2013)

It’s become a bit of a family tradition to take the kid (and now “kids”) to a small parking lot fair that sets up every June at the Northgate Mall, close to our house, instead of the bigger, busier, more expensive Queen City Ex later in the summer. Here’s a pic from when Pace was […]

Posted 14 June 2018 § Family § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

#yqr Toilet A Top Tourist Attraction

There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]

Posted 13 June 2018 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § News § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Seeing traces/Of the stars that came before/Hitting the pavement/Still asking for more”

I’ve got a bit of an informal Americana “camping music” theme going this month with Jason Isbell last week and now Son Volt this week… “Tear Stained Eye” – Son Volt

Posted 11 June 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,