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Biggest Challenge: “We’re a small city with a relatively big stadium.”

Yes. This is quite the challenge we face here in our little prairie city that’s run by people who want to pretend we’re a much bigger city like Calgary or Edmonton or Winnipeg so they push to build giant state-of-the art arenas. And ball stadiums. And the best football stadium in the country while showing […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2023 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan, sports

Music Monday – “We’ve come so far and we’ve reached so high/And we’ve looked each day and night in the eye/And we’re still so young and we hope for more/But remember this…”

Howard Donald (55) is the oldest member of Take That who performed as a trio at the Coronation Concert yet with his shaggy haircut and grey beard, he is the one I resemble the most. Hell, even their slow-mo dance steps are a far cry from their energetic boy band routines in the mid-1990s in […]

¶ Posted 08 May 2023 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – “Indiana public librarians forced to remove half the books in the teen section as demanded by unelected library board including a pro-book banning pastor”

Just as we watched drug poisonings and Narcan training spread across American libraries before becoming more common in Canada, I suspect religiously-motivated book banning requests (and religious board members being even more activist in trying to direct library’s directions, not just individual books) is the next thing American libraries will export to Canada. (via r/atheism)

¶ Posted 07 May 2023 § Censorship § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § SecularSunday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Lilly drug slows Alzheimer’s progression by 35 per cent in trial

As with cancer drugs and other research breakthroughs that sound promising, there are lots of times that exciting results come to nothing. But it still boggles my mind at how amazing science is to make those advances in the first place. My grandma was never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s/dementia but had many signs of it near […]

¶ Posted 03 May 2023 § Family ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health, parents

Music Monday – “You can’t jump a jet plane like you can a freight train/So, I’d best be on my way in the early morning rain”

“Early Morning Rain” – Gordon Lightfoot (RIP 1938 – 2023

¶ Posted 01 May 2023 § Canada § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) °

Secular Sunday – Indian Couple Commits Ritual Double Beheading

¶ Posted 30 April 2023 § Sad § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism

Friday Fun Link – Dildo Man’s Dickie Berg Photo Goes Viral

I can only imagine what the folks at REAL and Tourism Regina would do if they had a dick-shaped iceberg appear on Regina’s mighty shores! Luckily the guy from Dildo who snapped a photo of a dick shaped iceberg near Conception Bay isn’t an official from a tourism agency, just a Newfoundlander with a sense […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2023 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, science, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Drop Everything And Read, Regina Coronation Park (April 2017) #skpoli

By most accounts, Sask Party MLA Mark Docherty was a decent dude. I know I always enjoyed my interactions with him – when he would come to the library I was working at for events or programs or when I would bump into him at community events or whatever. Given his background and resume, I’ve […]

¶ Posted 27 April 2023 § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Big AI Announcements From TikTok, Boston Dynamics, RepLit, Apple

Big announcements in the world of AI today from TikTok, Boston Dynamics, Replit, and Apple. Here's the rundown on everything you need to know: — Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) April 27, 2023

¶ Posted 26 April 2023 § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

My Childhood Best Friend Wins $55 Million! (Well, A Guy I Kinda Sorta Remember Anyhow)

Okay, maybe he wasn’t my childhood best friend but he was somebody from my hometown whose family and mine did do stuff together occasionally before they moved to BC. But I should back-up… I still distinctly remember a conversation when I worked for the Sask Publishers Group around 20 years ago when we were chatting […]