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The Universe Is *Very* Big

The distance from Earth to Mars (if the Earth was 100 pixels wide) The Scale of the Universe  …and the top rated photos in Reddit’s /r/spaceporn

Posted 04 April 2013 § Randomness § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Psychic Reveals His Greatest Trick

…and it’s actually kinda terrifying.  (h/t JG)

Posted 28 March 2013 § Censorship § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day.  Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “L’Odyssée de la Vie”

No words for me to quote in the title of this week’s post like I usually do.  But the epic choral and instrumental music is a perfect soundtrack for this awesome video as Shea and I are down to around a month or so until our baby comes!

Posted 25 March 2013 § Baby § Family § MusicMonday § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “Welcome to Literarily Drunk. I’m drunk. And I like books!”

A new vlogger combines a couple of my favourite things – books and booze – in her Literarily Drunk reviews.

Posted 22 March 2013 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Some Thoughts On The Role of Social Media in the Sask NDP Leadership Race, Written on the Occasion of Twitter’s 7th Anniversary in 144 Chars

(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow.  The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership […]

Posted 21 March 2013 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And who by brave assent/Who by accident/Who in solitude/Who in this mirror”

Cool video by Buck 65 covering Leonard Cohen…

Posted 19 March 2013 § Canada § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Politics & Servant Leadership – A Perfect Match?

Ryan Meili has posted his concession speech from the day after the Leadership Convention and it didn’t make my Top 10 list of reasons I was supporting Ryan Meili but the fact that I’ve always found Ryan to be beyond classy, in good times and bad, was another reason I supported his candidacy.  Truly a […]

Posted 17 March 2013 § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Amazing Sound & Water Experiment

This is pretty cool…

Posted 15 March 2013 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

@ryanmeili Music Monday – “We had a lot of fun/We had a lot of money”

As I continue the transition from a blog that was “all politics, all the time” for much of the last six months to one that’s back to being a bit more balanced between the posts about libraries, technology, family and yes, still the occasional political post, I thought I’d start by resurrecting one of my […]

Posted 11 March 2013 § MusicMonday § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,