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Movie Night With My Kids

¶ Posted 30 May 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, movies

Music Monday – “How I wonder what you are/Up above the world so high/Like a diamond in the sky”

A pianist uses a popular children’s song to do a very cool demonstration the past century of recorded music…

¶ Posted 27 May 2013 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire

A Business Week profile of the Sriracha Hot Sauce company including its founder, its history and some reasons why its been so successful. My own introduction to the fabled hot sauce was fairly typical – when I started working at the Sask Publishers Group, my boss took me for Vietnamese food (is it possible I […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2013 § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, unitedstates

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: book, cool, holiday, music

Music Monday – “Indian Head” by the Eyebats

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I can’t really make out any of the words to this song. So I’ll just put the band name and title of the song as the title of this post instead of relevant lyrical excerpt like I usually do. But since the title of the song […]

¶ Posted 08 April 2013 § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

The 21st Century Calculator Watch?

When I was a kid, the cartoon “Battle of the Planets” was a huge deal for me and my friends. One of the many cool things about the show was that “the G-Force members stay in contact through a wrist-band communicator device.” In grade one, I still remember how I convinced a bunch of my […]

¶ Posted 03 April 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: cool, television

Music Monday (April Fool’s Day Edition) – Coldplay Shreds An Encore

Lots of April Fool’s jokes across the Internet today as usual. One of the funniest is that /r/radiohead has temporarily changed their sub-reddit to be like /r/coldplay, playing up the “rivalry” between fans of these two well-known UK bands with Radiohead seen as groundbreaking and original while Coldplay is seen by many as mainstream, unoriginal (copying […]

¶ Posted 01 April 2013 § Humour § Internet § MusicMonday § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day. Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]