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My 10 Favourite Christmas Songs

I’ve posted a lot of Christmas songs over the years, mostly as Music Monday posts, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried to make a list of my favourite Xmas songs, at least until now. So what makes a great Christmas song in my mind? Weirdly with how joyful the season is, my favourites mostly […]

¶ Posted 02 December 2018 § Family § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music, xmas

Comparing Some Swedish Guy’s 7 Year (7000 Hour) Guitar Progress To My Own 22 (!) Year, Didn’t Count The Hours Guitar Journey

I bought my first guitar after coming back from a University exchange to England in 1995. It cost me $60 and I still have it. It’s an El Degas model which is Spanish for “cheap crap”. 🙂 (Wow, Google tells me these guitars were actually made in Japan and mostly exported to Canada in the […]

¶ Posted 14 November 2018 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “The war has been incited/And guess what, you’re all invited/And you’re famous/Modernity has failed us”

“Love It If We Made It” – The 1975

¶ Posted 05 November 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

The World’s Most Remote Inhabited Island

¶ Posted 30 October 2018 § Randomness § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, travel

Friday Fun Link – Dollar Street and GapMinder’s Four Income Levels

Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]

¶ Posted 19 October 2018 § Canada § Family § Infographic § Jobs § News § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, food, history, travel

Throwback Thursday- #tbt – Grasshopper Cafe, Amsterdam (Fall 1995)

Figured this would be a good week to dig deep in the photo albums for a shot from a weekend trip to Amsterdam our host college arranged while I was on a semester exchange to England in 1995. (That England trip will probably fill 7/10 spots if I ever do a “Fondest Pot Memories” list […]

¶ Posted 18 October 2018 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, travel

Secular Sunday – By Any Standards, The Catholic Church Is A Corrupt Organization

Imagine for a moment that a big, admired multinational corporation, one selling a beloved product, was employing large numbers of male pedophiles and rapists, operating in rings all over the world, and that their crimes had been uncovered in Australia, Ireland, Canada, the Philippines, Belgium, France, Austria, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Britain, Germany and the […]