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A Few Thoughts On @BernieSanders Use of Technology #feelthebern #primaryday #newyork

So today was a pretty big day in the United States as born and raised Brooklyn boy, Bernie Sanders went up against adopted hometown gal, Hillary Clinton in the New York primary in their ongoing battle to secure the Democratic Party nomination. As someone who’s very interested in the use of digital technology and social media in politics, I […]

Posted 19 April 2016 § Internet § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Yay For Meaningless Internet Points! #feelthebern #whichhillary

I occasionally post on Reddit but most of my comments get a handful of upvotes (maybe) then disappear into obscurity. Lately, as I’ve been following the Bernie Sanders campaign from afar and knowing how much the campaign is being driven by Reddit users, I’ve been a bit more active than usual adding my theories, observations and/or snark on […]

Posted 06 April 2016 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Campaign Trail Simulation

This site allows you to simulate the current US election, playing as either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.  I’ve tried it as Donald Trump a couple times but have lost both times. It reminds me of a very similar game (can’t remember the name) that our Grade Six teacher created by manually typing out line-by-line […]

Posted 01 April 2016 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

20+ Page Report on the Clinton E-mail Scandal

I haven’t finished the whole thing but this seems like a fairly even-handed, exhaustive look at this controversy from both Clinton and the Justice Department point-of-views.

Posted 30 March 2016 § Internet § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Thoughts on my new iPhone

I consider myself pretty tech savvy so people were often surprised to hear/see that I was still using an iPhone 4S that I got in Fall 2011 as my smartphone. There’s a few reasons for this but the main one is that the phone still worked well enough for the most part and I’m not […]

Posted 03 February 2016 § Internet § List § MemoryLane § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Song – “Power to Devour All Who Are Sour”

I think it’s important to note that neither Pace nor Sasha have had a single music lesson in their lives and yet came up with this entire song (and title) completely by themselves tonight… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8PJ_-drqk8

Posted 16 January 2016 § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

19 Crazy Facts About Bill Gates’ Mansion

He is the richest man in the world after all (and his library sounds amazing!)

Posted 22 December 2015 § Internet § Library § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

SnapCircuits FM Transmitter vs. iPad

Pace got a pretty cool gift at the RPL Staff Kids’ Christmas Party today – the Snap Circuits FM Radio Receiver Kit which allows a kid to make a working FM receiver. He got it set up and even tuned into the local FM station that goes “All Christmas Music, All The Time” during December for […]

Posted 06 December 2015 § List § Pace § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Listen to Wikipedia

HatNote is a unique site that interprets ongoing Wikipedia edits as musical notes – which creates a nice ambient soundscape if you leave it open in a tab.

Posted 04 December 2015 § FridayFunLink § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Happy Black Friday!

All-Time Black Friday Death & Injury Count. Also this…    

Posted 27 November 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § PopCulture § United States § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,