“Consider the Lobster” is one of four (how'd that happen?) books I currently have on the go (the others – “Convergence Culture”, one about contrarian management principles which I can't remember the title of – probably “Contrarian Management”, and buzz book of the moment, “Twilight”.)One of the essays in the first book on that list […]
Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada that doesn't observe daylight saving time and the commonly accepted wisdom here is that the reason for this decision has to do with the fact that the time swap would be hugely disruptive to dairy cows – which apparently don't exist elsewhere in Canada. (Oh, and in […]
He won. And history looks like this…
Well, CNN has inspired me to start a live blog which I'll update as the night goes on…feel free to hit REFRESH if you want to hear my deep thoughts as the night progresses…6:17pmCNN has unveiled HOLOGRAMS into their coverage. Jessica Yellin has just appeared in the studio like some weird Princess Leia! (Oh God, […]
Yep, Pace had his first visit to his day care in Regina today – monumental!Just kidding. Obviously, the only story today is that, after months and months of electioneering, there will be a new US President. And at the risk of jinxing it, the most respected polling aggregator is predicting a 99% chance of an […]
In addition to going to my usual sources to read responses to the Barack Obama half-hour, less than a week to go “infomercial”, I went to a fairly popular right-wing blog called Little Green Footballs to see what kind of response the speech got there. Just like my conversation with the library technician from the […]
When No One's Watching“Can I Be Your Date?” Please!Not That It Matters But…(Okay, one more… “A History Teacher Sees The Future“)
Not sure if you've seen this or not but Canada finally has a national do-not-call registry and it's dead easy to sign up. Half watching election results and not really sure why we're having this election – is anything going to be significantly different than what we had before? Doesn't really look like it at […]
After the recent meltdown in the US economy, Barack Obama has opened a wider lead over John McCain than at any point in the campaign and looks all but sure to win on November 4. Still, you can't count out the Republicans and who knows what may happen over the final few weeks of the […]
In a break from Sarah Failin' posts, here's something on the Canadian Election. This site has been designed to help people who are considering voting strategically to help prevent the Conservatives from gaining a majority government on October 14. (Where's proportional representation when you need it? We'd have a different political landscape if some form […]
