One of the many highlights of the 2012 version of the Ryan Meili NDP Leadership campaign was an amazingly fun event that featured a great local Moose Jaw band by way of South America, Andino Suns. If I was a bit more linguistically adept, I’d try to catch a few lyrics from this song to […]
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Some Random Thoughts on the Regina Waste Water Treatment Plant Referendum
I decided not to use the #yqr and #wwtp hash tags in my post title as I’m mostly writing this one for my own reflection and as a place to collect my thoughts after a tough loss by the “Yes” side tonight (it ended up being 57% – 43%) rather than adding to what I […]
Why I’m Voting “Yes” in the #yqr #wwtp Referendum (And No, It’s Not For The Reasons You Might Expect)
Like the title says, I’m voting “Yes” in the Regina Waste Water Treatment Plant Referendum. But it’s not for the reason you might expect… I think I’ve mentioned in passing on this blog that I sometimes regret getting more heavily involved in party politics, first by joining Ryan Meili’s 2009 Sask NDP Leadership bid […]
September 11, 2001 as it happened on CNN – 8:40am to 10:11am
I’m pretty sure I have most of this on a VHS tape somewhere but nice to have it online for easy access and archival purposes…
A Few #Rider Related Thoughts on The Occasion of the #BanjoBowl
Bobby Jurasin Documentary (Featuring pre-fame Brett Butt) I was flipping through YouTube and came across a profile of my all-time favourite Rider, #71 Bobby Jurasin (which features a few cameos by a pre-“Corner Gas” Brent Butt starting around the 11:45 mark!) I got to meet Mr. Jurasin when a few of us who played with […]
A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope
Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff… And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…
Music Monday – “I was tired of being put right down/By myself for not being what you thought/You had found pulled hard in two directions”
Happy Labour Day! This year’s Labour Day is especially relevant as our current provincial government has proposed sweeping new legislation to “modernize” Saskatchewan’s labour laws by combining twelve existing pieces of Legislation into a single omnibus bill, a move which will “likely have many unintended consequences and costs. Unions aren’t taking these changes laying down […]
What Will Libraries Look Like in Twenty Years?
Ended up having a conversation with someone at the library today and the question of what the library is going to look like in twenty years came up. My initial response was “That’s impossible to predict – who in 1993 would’ve predicted the rise of the e-book, DRM, Amazon, Google – and the impact all […]
Facebook and My Social Clusters
Stephen Wolfram recently published an analysis of a huge dataset of how people are using Facebook that is extremely fascinating (so fascinating that I wanted to except some of the best parts but didn’t know where to start!) One of the findings was that the most common social structure people tend to have two or […]
“One Prominent NDP Blogger Recently Wrote…”
So I was flitting around YouTube this weekend and came across this video of a member statement made by Carrot River MLA, Fred Bradshaw in the Saskatchewan Legislature and which was uploaded a couple months ago on April 17, 2013. Although they don’t specify who the “prominent NDP blogger” in question is (and out of […]