A onetime child prodigy, at 39 Joshua Bell has arrived as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. Three days before he appeared at the Metro station, Bell had filled the house at Boston's stately Symphony Hall, where merely pretty good seats went for $100. Two weeks later, at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda, he […]
A couple months ago, I wrote about how I attended the local NDP association's AGM with Shea's uncle who's big with the NDP (he ran in the 2000 Federal election) during a visit to Weyburn. During the meeting, one old-timer had leaned over and asked if I might be interested in running. I told him […]
Your IQ = 130.Here are my scores. Language 11/12Memory 5/6Logic 12/12Visual Memory 5/6Math 10/12Perception 9/12Some random thoughts (may contain spoilers so why not do the quiz then come back to finish reading if you haven't already?)…CBC Television : Test the Nation – I know it's just for fun but any IQ test that asks me […]
I know that everybody who reads this blog doesn't necessarily read all of the same blogs that I do. So every once in awhile, I like to highlight some of the great entries I've found elsewhere. For example, Meshell had a great post on what exactly a blog is, why people do it and a […]
Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]
If you like riddles, puzzles, jokes and brain teasers, this is the most addictive and/or infuriating quiz I've ever seen. How bad is it? Through repeated trial and error, I got to question 15 before giving up completely (there are 110 questions). Then, when I had the answers, I still couldn't finish it! I'll post […]
Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]
Early in this blog's history, I came up with a little gimmick where I cover a bunch of miscellaneous things I've come across or want to talk about in conjunction with a holiday (search for “randomness” to see previous entries). I don't think I've done a “random” entry like this in awhile but the New […]
…sometimes you have absolutely nothing to say. (I've got a fun one lined up for tomorrow though – promise!) For some reason, this emptiness of ideas inspired me to check my stats. As I suspected, my number of “unique visitors” are down by about 2/3 from an all-time high right around that “50 Ways To […]
So it's 3:45am on December 28 and I'm back in my own bed after a few days of riding the sleigh around SE Saskatchewan (well, to Shea's parents in Weyburn, my parents in Indian Head then back to Regina today.) Right now, I'm surfing around to catch-up on my regular blogs and here's some of […]
