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The World’s Longest Waterslide (And Some Thoughts on Zen Videos, Feelings of Melancholy and Modern Technology)

There’s something very zen about watching a video of someone going down the Guinness World Record Holding world’s longest waterslide which snakes through a jungle in Malaysia (some feel that the slowness of the slide is a negative but I disagree.) At the same time, there’s also something melancholy about thinking about how vast our […]

¶ Posted 13 March 2022 § Internet § Randomness § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: travel

Sappy Sunday – “Take advantage of your day, take advantage of the fact that your kids are young and affectionate and playful and take advantage of the fact you can do these things, take advantage of the opportunity every day to be physical, to work, to do anything.”

Diagnosed with ALS in June 2019 and given six months to live, Calgary Flames Assistant GM, Chris Snow, is still alive three years later. He has even been able to keep working (kudos to the Flames for this!) and turn his bad situation into an opportunity to raise hundreds of thousands for ALS research. His […]

¶ Posted 06 March 2022 § Family § Jobs § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, health, hockey, science

Saturday Snap – Life’s Too Short For Unsalted Butter

In light of yesterday’s post where I happened to share the screenshot a portion of a life advice article that said we should eat salted butter as life is too short for unsalted, I thought I’d post a pic I happened to snap at Safeway recently. Saying “life is too short for unsalted butter” may […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2022 § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health, travel

Music Monday – “You know that old trees just grow stronger/And old rivers grow wilder every day/Old people just grow lonesome/Waiting for someone to say, “Hello in there, hello”

“Hello In There” – Ian Noe (John Prine Cover)

¶ Posted 17 January 2022 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, music

RIP America’s Dad (1956-2022)

RIP Bob Saget.

¶ Posted 11 January 2022 § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

An Atheist Takes In A “Blue Christmas” Ceremony

It’s been a tough end to the year. There are some fairly major changes happening at work that will affect myself and numerous other supervisors in the new year. One of those supervisors, a friend and mentor, died unexpectedly at the start of December – quite young but also getting very close to retirement, having […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2021 § MemoryLane § Video § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, Covid, holiday, xmas

“Jon” by Amanda Huber

Powerful piece by the widow of a popular wrestler who tragically died young.

¶ Posted 16 December 2021 § PopCulture § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Music Monday – “They give me all these flowers and these big balloons/But I’m not gonna stay in this little room/I don’t wanna die in this hospital, I don’t wanna die”

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the saying “You know how much money you have; you never know how much time you have.” If it’s not obvious, what it means is that you (roughly) know how much money you have – what your paycheque is every two weeks, what your investments are worth, the […]

¶ Posted 06 December 2021 § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: health

This Anti-Vax Single Mother’s Series of Posts Could Be A PSA For Getting Vaccinated

This tragic series of posts by an anti-vax single mother as she catches Covid, is hospitalized, sees her condition worsen, begs for people to donate money and take care of her family if she passes then eventually dies could be an effective public service announcement *in favour of* vaccination. This is one of the top […]

¶ Posted 09 November 2021 § Family § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Funeral for a Family Friend

It was being used a bit before Covid but the pandemic definitely made livestreaming a more common option for all sorts of major life events including birthdays, holidays, weddings and especially funerals. This has come in handy a few times recently – over the summer when a former coworker died of stage four breast cancer, […]