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Happy Father’s Day!

What makes a father first realize that he is a dad? (Now, if you’ll excuse I think I have some dust in my eye…)

Posted 17 June 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Kindergarten Orientation

Pace had a half-day kindergarten orientation on Friday. Definitely a bittersweet day. Everyone tells you but hard to believe how fast they grow…

Posted 09 June 2012 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“There Are No Words”

Go Kings!

Posted 06 June 2012 § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “6am/Day after Christmas/The smell of cold/Car seat is freezing/The world is sleeping/I am numb”

One of the saddest songs I know…

Posted 04 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Sappy Sunday – Lip Dub Wedding Proposal

This one’s pretty sweet…

Posted 27 May 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

TedxRegina

After an extremely long day, I’m pretty tired. Hopefully I’ll revisit my TedxRegina experience in the next day or two. But for now…

Posted 16 May 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“Wake Up Moms, You’re Fighting the Wrong Fight” – points out that it’s ridiculous to argue about the recent Time breastfeeding cover and instead, all US moms should be pushing for a benefit that new moms in the vast majority of the world get – paid maternity leave.  Why Nicolas Tesla was the Greatest Geek […]

Posted 15 May 2012 § Library § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

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: , ,