Category Archives: Randomness

Camping Sunset

Ten Things I’m Thinking About Lately

Hand dryers and noise pollution (especially in libraries) How we’re always saying goodbye to people we love without realising it. (h/t to JB on FB) How come Photos on my Macbook stopped showing recently uploaded photos a month ago even though I can see all my latest photos when I log in to Photos through […]

Friday Fun Link – More Initials!

Congrats to Shea on becoming a Certified Diabetic Educator – an incredible amount of hard work paid off (and not just because it adds to an already impressive list of credentials after her name!)

Happy Father’s Day! (Or is it Happy Twins Day?)

Some people use DNA tests to confirm their ancestry but the only thing I need to do to confirm my father and I are definitely related is to show up to a family event wearing the same clothes as my dad!Ā  Isn’t fashion sense genetically inherited??? šŸ˜‰ All joking aside, Happy Father’s Day to the […]

Friday Fun Link – defaultfile.name YouTube Randomizer

This site, defaultfile.name, is fascinating – it looks through YouTube for random files that have been uploaded without the default filename given by the camera or smartphone (DNSC209, MVI753, IMG9903, etc.) being changed to something more descriptive and searchable. For that reason, most are fairly low view count videos, often quite short, and provide all […]

Music Monday – “Don’t fill out any forms/Don’t compensate/Don’t cower/Don’t crawl/Don’t come around late/Don’t hover at the gate”

“Numb” – U2

Why Is Easter A Moving Target?

There’s an explanation why the date of Easter moves around but yeah, if it’s supposed to commemorate the day Jesus was resurrected, you’d think that would be not a lot of room for debate. Anyhow, I’ll put myself in the camp of people who prefer it in late April instead of March. Hoppy Easter!

The Eleven Month Countdown to Next Year’s Trip?

Just like I did after we got home last year, I immediately began thinking about and researching where we might like to go on a tropical vacation next winter. Here’s my shortlist of destinations (but not hotels – though I’ve started that list too!) so far: 1.Ā Isla MujeresĀ  – both times we’ve gone there on […]

Friday Fun Link – Watching Something On The Internet That I Loved A Long Time Before The Internet

 

$100 Tequila Drink in Tequila, Mexico

It costs $100 but not because it’s expensive tequila in a small snifter!