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Tunes Tuesday – “Gonna get my smiling face/On the cover of the Rolling Stone”

In my excitement to post a 1980’s country song that captures my post-long weekend camping bliss yesterday, I neglected what would have been a perfectly timed Music Monday post. So instead, you get an extremely rare “Tunes Tuesday” post to share the good news that Saskatoon band, The Sheepdogs, won a contest to become the […]

Posted 02 August 2011 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – MTV News Explains The Internet (in 1995)

An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well.  I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for (and […]

Posted 29 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail.  This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]

Posted 28 July 2011 § Library § Politics ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Best Music Books of All-time

Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few – that Ian MacDonald book on the Beatles is awesome!

Posted 27 July 2011 § Library ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “We only said goodbye with words/I died a hundred times/You go back to her/And I go back to black.”

Now she’s gone and joined that stupid club. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 25 July 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 July 2011 § MusicMonday § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday – Oprah’s Final Show

Oprah Winfrey had her last episode at the end of May and though I wasn’t a regular watcher, I did tune in for this historic episode by a woman that’s had major cultural significance for the last twenty-five years – from becoming the world’s first African-American billionaire (as a woman to boot!) to  having a […]

Posted 12 July 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Kudos to Air Canada

Made it to St. John’s after a 3:30am wake-up call, a 6am departure and two three hour flights – first to Toronto and then another one to St. John’s.  When I fly, it tends to be WestJet or on a charter taking me to sunny climes so this was the first time I’ve been on […]

Posted 30 June 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

How I Choose Which Book To Read Next

We leave for Newfoundland tomorrow morning and as our first extended trip without Pace (10 days!) I’m extremely excited about the possibility of doing lots of uninterrupted reading.  Unfortunately, even though I’ve packed four print books (and downloaded another three e-books to my iPhone), I still don’t feel any of them sending me an urgent […]

Posted 29 June 2011 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – GOOOAAAAALLL!!!

Not even sure what game/league this is from but anytime Canada can score a goal like this with a couple minutes left in a soccer game to tie England, life is good!

Posted 24 June 2011 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,