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Friday Sad Link – RIP Mike Bossy (1957-2022)

Sad to hear that my absolute favourite NHL player of all-time, Mike Bossy, passed away today after a lengthy battle with lung cancer (almost unbelievably, one of the greatest goal scorers of all-time was also a heavy smoker, especially early in his career.) How much did I admire Bossy? To this day, I used “22” […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2022 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

The Legend of How Gilbert Gottfried Turned a 9/11 Joke Into “The Aristocrats”

More than an uniquely annoying voice, Gilbert Gottfried was a comedian’s comedian and a comedy legend. RIP. Around two weeks after the attacks, one of the first big comedy events held in New York City was the Friar’s Club Roast of Hugh Hefner. Throughout the night, as funny as it was, there was also an […]

¶ Posted 12 April 2022 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, television

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 […]