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Category Archives: Randomness

Can You Find the Oscar Statue In This Picture?

Posted 28 February 2016 § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Random Thoughts on the First US Primaries

Does anyone else find the idea of caucuses weird (especially how the Democrats do it where you show your support publicly and others try to convince you to support other candidates?) It also seems like there’s an inherent bias to people who can afford to give up an evening – harder for the single parent […]

Posted 02 February 2016 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare” – School Shooting in La Loche

Definitely not a “Friday Fun Link” day today with news of a shocking shooting at a school in northern Saskatchewan which killed four people (not five as many early reports stated) with others injured. Here are some random thoughts… Reading online comments, many right wing Americans are calling out Obama for saying “This doesn’t happen […]

Posted 22 January 2016 § Canada § News § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – The Cost of Living Everywhere in the World in a Single Awesome Graphic

Not sure if this is a “Fun” link but it captures something I’ve been thinking about a lot since our most recent trip to Cuba.

Posted 15 January 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Jobs § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Listen to Wikipedia

HatNote is a unique site that interprets ongoing Wikipedia edits as musical notes – which creates a nice ambient soundscape if you leave it open in a tab.

Posted 04 December 2015 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – WWE’s Luke Harper Previously Worked As School Librarian

This is pretty funny when you think about it. Yep, this guy… Also this story… Harper was a librarian while working on the indies. He told a story how he was busted open in a cage match with Cesaro, couldn’t really stop the bleeding and had to wear a hat during work the next Monday […]

Posted 20 November 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Jobs § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Random Thoughts on the Paris Terrorist Attack

There was a major terrorist attack in Paris on Friday.  I have some thoughts… Part of the reason attacks like this have such an impact is that our education system has failed to overcome our innate human nature.  I saw this summarized in a great graphic that points out how there are over 6 million Muslims […]

Posted 15 November 2015 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Nostalgia Machine

The Nostalgia Machine will generate a playlist for the year you were born (or any other year – want to re-live your high school prom?  The year you got married?)

Posted 23 October 2015 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Awesome Parkour

Pace thought I should take a break from my election posts to share this awesome parkour video…

Posted 09 October 2015 § Pace § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

A Look at the Log Files…

I haven’t done a navel-gazing post for awhile so I thought it’d be interesting to list which of my blog posts have had the most views during this year along with the date that they were originally published… How To Make A Rye & Coke Press (Dec 2006) Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones (Oct 2013) Ranking […]

Posted 20 September 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § SaturdaySnap § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °