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Ten Things That Make Me Happy These Days

I’ve recently rediscovered hummus.  God, that stuff is addictive! The local hard rock radio station playing German quasi-death metal on my drive back to work after lunch recently = Jason has a very productive afternoon! 😉 I’ve mentioned this before but getting to come home for lunch every day is beyond awesome. That’s partly because, […]

Posted 25 March 2014 § Family § Humour § Internet § Library § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Randomness § Sad § Sasha § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Happy 11 Month Birthday Sasha!

Here’s a picture of you having an upside down Chicken Fight with your grandpa, dad and brother, risking that you might not make it to your first birthday if we move wrong! 😉

Posted 16 March 2014 § Baby § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

How Pro Wrestling Prepared Me For The 21st Century

As I may have mentioned on this blog before, I grew up watching professional wrestling. When I was around 7 or 8 years old, it was pretty amazing to see heavily-muscled, fantastically-named guys like the super-heroes I read about in comic books – whether good guys (The Dynamite Kid) or bad (The Mongolian Stomper, The […]

Posted 12 March 2014 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Russian “Human Flies” Illegally Climb the Highest Structure in China and Second Highest in the World

Definitely don’t watch this video if you suffer from vertigo…

Posted 28 February 2014 § FridayFunLink § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

10 Reasons Canada Has Already Won The Sochi Olympics

A great list from Buzzfeed summarizing some of many Canada’s successes – in competition and beyond – at the Winter Olympics.

Posted 12 February 2014 § Canada § List § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Forget Dystopian Fiction, Is Sochi A Dystopian Reality? (Or Is The United States?)

Wired magazine asks if what we’re seeing in Sochi is a manifestation of some of the tropes of current dystopian literature like “Hunger Games”, the “Divergent” trilogy, etc. – a gleaming, authoritarian rule masquerading as a utopia but with a barely hidden sub-class, propaganda, televised spectacle, corruption, rigged competitions, doublespeak, etc. It’s an interesting idea […]

Posted 11 February 2014 § Censorship § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Inside Mark McMorris’ Technique

Saskatchewan’s Mark McMorris brought home Canada’s first Olympic medal, a bronze in the slope style competition. This is pretty amazing considering he broke a rib only a couple weeks ago at the Winter X Games (not to mention that he’s a kid from the flat Canadian prairie of course!) 😉 McMorris grew up in Regina. The closest […]

Posted 09 February 2014 § Canada § Family § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Go Canada Go!

Pace’s outfit for “Olympic Day” at school on Friday…

Posted 08 February 2014 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

The Best Super Bowl Commercial Was a Viral Video

More and more companies, whether they actually buy Super Bowl ad time or not, are releasing their ads early, starting social media campaigns or otherwise trying related techniques to get as much attention as possible for their product. One of the best viral videos that wasn’t actually a Super Bowl ad came from Newcastle Brown […]

Posted 04 February 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Never had much faith in love or miracles/Never want to put my heart on the line”

After a blowout Super Bowl with what some are calling one of the best half-time shows of all-time, what other clip could I post but Bruno Mars… “Locked Out of Heaven” – Bruno Mars Here are a few other random thoughts about the Super Bowl… – if it hadn’t been for the Saskatchewan connection, this […]

Posted 03 February 2014 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,