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Friday Fun Link – A $2.5 Billion Robot, Designed To Function on Mars For Two Years, Is Still Working 13 Years Later!

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped… https://t.co/AzXQenKDnH — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March […]

Music Monday – “Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don’t take it all/’Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman.”

“Taxman” – The Beatles

¶ Posted 23 March 2026 § Library § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: beatles, economics

Saturday Snap – Don’t See That Every Day!

Driving home from supper, Shea and I saw a truck flipped completely upside down just south of the interaction of Lewvan and Sherwood Drives. Not sure what happened but we saw the cops walking a guy to their vehicle then Shea saw him being put in cuffs so perhaps he was the driver and (luckily) […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2026 § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, travel

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Film Tax Credit Cuts Protest (May 2012)

There have been a lot of mistakes, a lot of missteps and a lot of deficit budgets. But cutting the Sask Film Tax Credit is arguably the single most negative impact the Sask Party has had on our province – chasing away film production and the skilled people who worked in the industry *just* as […]

¶ Posted 19 March 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, movies, saskatchewan, television

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

¶ Posted 18 March 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Civic Engagement (February 2004, June 2009, Sept 2025)

I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]

¶ Posted 12 March 2026 § Family § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Politics § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, language, parents

Secular Sunday – Because They’re All The Same?

I recently talked to someone who could not believe that Shea and I have never taken our kids to church or introduced them to religion in any way. Obviously, not all religions are extreme as the two below. But that’s a big clue why we don’t feel we need religious influence or guidance in our […]