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Sappy Sunday – Happy Mother’s Day

Over the weekend, a guy I used to play hockey with posted a status update with a link to the blog he and his wife kept of their experiences while adopting a South African boy three years ago, a journey that culminated over Mother’s Day.  I’ve direct linked to their Mother’s Day posts but it’s […]

Posted 13 May 2012 § Family ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtyqS68ViWk I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once […]

Posted 22 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is actually married to someone else in real life) was walking down the aisle to this song to meet Jack Layton at the altar (he was still alive […]

Posted 26 March 2012 § Humour § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Gorilla Cam

This is simultaneously the coolest and saddest thing I’ve seen. (The zoo does that to me.) It’s also got a nice twist at the end that proves we are, without-a-doubt, evolved from apes! 😉

Posted 15 February 2012 § Humour § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Pace Recites “The Night Before Christmas” (With Some Help From Daddy)

This is actually from last Christmas but I thought it was appropriate to put up this year, especially since my “Saturday Snap” falls on Christmas Eve.  (If Pace’s variations on the original aren’t drastic enough for you, there’s also this.)

Posted 24 December 2011 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Story of “Fairytale of New York”

It’s one of the most remarkable Christmas songs of all-time as well as my personal favourite (but did it make its writers rich as some think a hit Christmas song inevitably does?) Here’s the first in a six-part story of how it came to be (the other five parts should come up as you finish […]

Posted 23 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Google 2011 Zeitgeist – Year in Review

Google has released an amazing video that captures the major highlights of the year (while also acting as a great showcase for their various services, especially Google+.) (via HuffPost)

Posted 15 December 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Sappy Sunday – It’s Time

A great commercial from Australia provides a touching perspective on an important social issue… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 27 November 2011 § Family § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,