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Friday Fun Link – The Heat Death of the Internet

h/t to AB at RPL for this link…

¶ Posted 12 April 2024 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, television

Secular Sunday – God Works in Mysterious Ways

This is probably too soon and I’m going to burn in hell for saying it. But if you’re religious, you probably think 45 pilgrims dying and one 8-year old girl surviving means that little girl is blessed by god and not that there is no god (or if there is, he doesn’t really interact in […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2024 § Sad § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, holiday, science, travel

What Are The Stages of Dementia?

¶ Posted 31 January 2024 § Family § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

Saturday Snap – If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is

Vonnegut was the master and, along with George Carlin and John Lennon, one of the people who’s probably influenced my worldview the most…

¶ Posted 27 January 2024 § Charlie Echo § Family § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – The Surprising Pattern Behind Colour Names Around The World

Cool video my son told me about…

¶ Posted 26 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Pace § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, science

Friday Fun Link – What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectrums Last Year?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

¶ Posted 05 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, holiday, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – For Weddings and a Funeral (August 2008)

Hard to believe that fifteen years ago we were at Shea’s cousin’s wedding and took this photo of three girls (also cousins) she’d basically raised from babies with our baby. Sadly, the last time we would see the sister on the left was at the sister on the right’s wedding earlier this summer. She was […]

¶ Posted 14 December 2023 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

Happiness Hacks

There’s some irony that I’m posting this on my blog from my laptop computer given the last line…

¶ Posted 12 December 2023 § Infographic § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, food, health, science

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]