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Music Monday – “When I’m drunk/I dance like me dad/Started to dress a bit like him/Early morning when I wake up/I look like KISS but without the make-up”

Love the lyrics in this song (which are especially fun around Father’s Day!) For those who don’t know, Robbie Williams started in a boy band in the UK in the 1990’s, went solo and became even bigger pretty much everywhere on earth except North America. I also didn’t realise until I read the Wikipedia entry […]

Posted 20 June 2016 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 25 Fascinating Charts of Negotiation Styles Around The World

Very interesting.

Posted 03 June 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Jobs § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – The Leicester Miracle

This is a great summary of the incredible season of underdog British football team, Leicester Foxes. Whether you follow international soccer or not, stories like this are what make sport so engaging.

Posted 06 May 2016 § FridayFunLink § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

(Belated) Music Monday – “Abandon all reason/Avoid all eye contact/Do not react/Shoot the messengers”

I forgot to do a Music Monday post yesterday but it worked out okay because this video showed up in my News Feed today! Most people figured a new Radiohead song/album was imminent as Radiohead, already known for very unique albums releases, had done something very unique in the past few days. In our hyper-viral attention […]

Posted 03 May 2016 § Censorship § Meme § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Books Everyone Should Read

Word cloud created from the “most read books” lists from a variety of libraries, booksellers, book web sites and other sources… (via Reddit)

Posted 11 March 2016 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Library § List § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Kids React To The Beatles

I am pleasantly surprised at the majority of the reactions these kids have to clips of the Beatles at various points in their history…

Posted 16 February 2016 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

The 10 Most Unique Experiences In My Life

Shea and I have reached that point in our lives where we tend to buy most Christmas gifts for ourselves and then label them as if they were from each other. But we do usually try to get at least one original “surprise” gift as well – for example, this year I bought her some […]

Posted 24 January 2016 § Baby § Family § Humour § Internet § List § MemoryLane § News § Sasha § Shea § Sports § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Cost of Living Everywhere in the World in a Single Awesome Graphic

Not sure if this is a “Fun” link but it captures something I’ve been thinking about a lot since our most recent trip to Cuba.

Posted 15 January 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Jobs § Randomness § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Look up here/I’m in Heaven”

“Lazarus” – David Bowie David Bowie, one of the most influential, durable and creative musicians of the past half century, died today.  He released his final album only a couple days ago on his 69th birthday then passed away after living with cancer for 18 months. One of the songs on his new album, “Lazarus” […]

Posted 11 January 2016 § List § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Each Christmas come since World War One I’ve learned it’s lessons well/That the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame/And on each end of the rifle we’re the same.”

They don’t come much sadder than this one… “Christmas in the Trenches” – John McCutcheon

Posted 14 December 2015 § MusicMonday § News § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,