Category Archives: Randomness

Secular Sunday – A dying man’s thoughts on stardust, a fortunate life, making the world a better place, and the randomness of it all.

Someone posted a link to this essay on FB and I wanted to repost the whole thing here as I thought it was very well-written and thought-provoking… Clarifying my final weeks Journal entry by Erik Olin Wright — Jan 18, 2019 Yesterday, I had a bone marrow biopsy to see if there were any prospects at all of […]

Friday Fun Link – Dubai Fireworks (Full)

I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that my highest mark for a presentation in library school was one I did that was actually in a journalism class. My presentation was about online video and how it allows you to transcend both space and time in a way that other previous media (television, radio, etc.) couldn’t. This video from […]

2018 End of Year Memes: One Big Beard, Two Week All Inclusive, Third Times the Charm for Meili, Four Plus Weeks Off With Broken Wrist

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Thanks to my parents picking up the tab for the first week, we were able to extend our winter holiday to two weeks at an all-inclusive – something we’d never done before during the handful of week long all-inclusive vacations we’ve taken over […]

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2018

Always one of my favourite posts of the year as it does such a good job of randomly capturing the flow of the year, highlights and lowlights. 😉 January – “It was a great way to kick off the New Year last night with Shea and I seeing a show at Casino Regina featuring Blake […]

Which Is The Best Air Fryer?

Happy Boxing Day everyone!  

Merry Christmas!

Friday Fun Link – Shit Fireplace

If you’re looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous yule log channels/videos at this time of year, try “Shit Fireplace” (and I’m proud to say the co-creator of these videos is a colleague at RPL!)  

The 100 Greatest Innovations of 2018

The year-end “best of” lists have begun!!!

The World’s Most Remote Inhabited Island

 

The Five Year Old’s Guide to the Galaxy

Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.