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Category Archives: PopCulture

Read Books, Live Longer?

Even after controlling for other factors that may mean some people are more likely to read than others (education, gender, age, etc.), a recent study shows that people who read more are more likely to live longer… Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half […]

¶ Posted 09 August 2016 § Library § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education

Music Monday – “Where have all my friends gone?/They’ve all disappeared/Turned around maybe one day/You’re all that was there.”

I’ve heard this song before but after hearing it on a random Americana playlist last Friday and suddenly I can’t get it out of my head… “Blue” – The Jayhawks

¶ Posted 08 August 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – The World Wide Web is 25 Years Old, Here Are The 25 Funniest Things To Ever Happen Online

I can’t decide if I should feel special or like a giant nerd that I remember seeing most of these when they went viral.

¶ Posted 05 August 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – God, I Miss Jon Stewart

Luckily, he’s living under Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” desk… (Oh, and here’s a summary of 25 of Trump’s biggest lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations from his convention speech last night.)

¶ Posted 22 July 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, television, unitedstates

Pokemania!

So you have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the new augmented reality map-based game, Pokemon Go!. I first heard about it when it was all over Reddit, soon after its release in early July. I have to be honest – my first reaction was to ignore it as I thought of […]

¶ Posted 19 July 2016 § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § Randomness § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, reddit, travel

Music Monday – “Yes, we’re going to a party-party/Yes, we’re going to a party-party”

I’ve had this blog for ten years and my actual birthday has fallen on a “Music Monday” only once in 2009 when I naturally posted…“Paranoid Android” by Radiohead? Maybe I did this because only a couple years earlier in 2009, I fudged things and posted “Birthday” by the Beatles on the Monday before my birthday […]

¶ Posted 18 July 2016 § Blog § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

“When you’re born in this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in the US, you get a front row seat.”

God, I love George Carlin…

¶ Posted 13 July 2016 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, philosophy

Music Monday – “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?/I made that bitch famous/Goddamn, I made that bitch famous.”

Kanye West recently released a provocative, controversial video featuring wax versions of numerous famous people who are connected to him in one way or another, all lying in a bed together naked. The slow pans of the various naked wax figures plus the viewer’s knowledge of the various interactions West has had with each of […]