The news of Jack Layton’s passing today, although not unexpected, is still sad and tragic for so many reasons. There is much grieving today from party supporters and much respect from people from across the political spectrum for a man who was truly special within the political realm. I tried to think of an appropriate […]
Unfortunately, I’m out of town this weekend but I really wish I could take in a couple events happening this Saturday where my local provincial NDP candidate is hosting one of the dynamic new NDP MP’s, Rathika Sitsabaiesan. This video of Ms. Sitsabaiesan’s inaugural speech in the House of Commons sends a tingle down my […]
A huge collection of countdown overviews for the last few decades including, for example, the year I graduated high school… (via Reddit)
I always think these reality show stars – Susan Boyle, Paul Potts, etc. – who are dumpy looking and/or have a sob story are probably exaggerated (along with the editing and dramatic music introducing them) for maximum effect. But if there’s even a grain of truth to stories like this one, it’s still pretty amazing…
Great to see that my former colleagues at Southeast Regional Library have started a YouTube channel with a focus on training videos for SRL staff. It is particularly gratifying to see that they’re still using the Branch Activity Report (BAR) that I created for our rural branches to report their ongoing activities to HQ. My […]
I occasionally do Sappy Sunday posts so perhaps I need to do a recurring humour-themed post to balance things out? Too Funny Tuesdays? Tickle Tuesdays?
In 2002, Shea and I joined my parents for two weeks in Kailua, Oahu. We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be going again in January 2012 which will be the tenth anniversary of our first trip! This time, Shea and I decided we’d like to see something different so we’re going to spend one week in […]
This great video makes the case that we haven’t evolved to compete with each other but to empathize with one another. I especially like how it builds the case of how our strongest connections grew from family relationships to tribes to religion-as-extended-family to nation-states-as-extended-family to the natural next step to a worldwide unity of purpose, […]
In my excitement to post a 1980’s country song that captures my post-long weekend camping bliss yesterday, I neglected what would have been a perfectly timed Music Monday post. So instead, you get an extremely rare “Tunes Tuesday” post to share the good news that Saskatoon band, The Sheepdogs, won a contest to become the […]
An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well. I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for (and […]
