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Category Archives: Technology

Eating With The World’s Most Isolated Tribe

We live in a pretty amazing world where I can use some of the world’s most advanced technology – the Internet, YouTube, wifi – to watch a video clip about one of the world’s most primitive societies.  

Posted 28 August 2019 § Internet § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on “Hot Ones”

 

Posted 16 August 2019 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

(Belated) Throwback Thursday – #tbt – That’s A Switch! (April 2008)

Pace used his saved up birthday/Christmas/babysitting money to buy himself a $500 Nintendo Switch the other day – a long ways from when he was a year old and having fun on the $50 desktop computer I bought from Southeast Regional Library after they decommissioned it.

Posted 11 July 2019 § Baby § Family § Humour § Library § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The Craziest Edit in Beatles History

I’ve got a mini-Beatles/music theme going on the past couple days (so much so that when I looked at my post about the Mi’kmaq version of “Blackbird” yesterday, I thought it *was* my Music Monday post and I’d somehow missed posting on Tuesday!) Anyhow, to keep the theme going, here’s a YouTube video about one […]

Posted 05 June 2019 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – A People Map of the Most Wikipedia Searched Person in Each Major City in the US

Who is the most searched resident of each city in the US on Wikipedia?

Posted 31 May 2019 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Internet § List § News § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Online Apps as 80’s Gadgets

A designer reimagines how various popular web sites would look as 1980’s gadgets.

Posted 26 April 2019 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Crash! My History With Technology’s Inevitable End

Had a scary moment this morning when my laptop wouldn’t charge and even crashed a couple times when I tried to get it working.  But luckily it appears that my charging block had simply stopped working and a new one seems to have things running smoothly again (considering I’m still running a 2011-era MacBook Pro […]

Posted 17 April 2019 § Internet § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Wang, on Universal Basic Income

The guy seems like a longshot but so did Donald Trump four years ago!  

Posted 19 March 2019 § Jobs § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

List of Flags By Colour Combination (and the Story of One Man Who’s Edited 1/3 of Wikipedia Articles)

This is a pretty interesting Wikipedia article. Also, the news has picked up on the story of one guy who’s apparently edited 1/3 of Wikipedia’s millions of articles and created 35,000 original articles.

Posted 29 January 2019 § Canada § Internet § Jobs § List § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – A Nice Note From #yqr @sarcanrecycling

Had a fun moment at Sarcan today. Earlier this week, we finally got around to trying their “Drop & Go” option where you can just leave your cans and bottles with some kiosk-generated tags then, a few days later, you later get a call that a cheque is ready. This is way easier than waiting in […]

Posted 12 January 2019 § Humour § Jobs § MemoryLane § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,