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Friday Fun Link – What’s the Secret of the Most Successful Jeopardy Champion of All-Time? The Children’s Library!

James Holzhauer hasn’t caught Ken Jennings in terms of number of victories in a row but he’s setting records for most money won per game which is arguably a more impressive achievement? His secret? Studying easy-to-read introductory books on a wide variety of subjects at the children’s library!

¶ Posted 03 May 2019 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, television

20 Things Nobody Saw Coming in Avengers: Endgame

The best part of seeing a big tentpole movie on opening weekend is that you can go on the Internet again without fear of seeing SPOILERS:

¶ Posted 28 April 2019 § Censorship § Internet § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, movies

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #7 – Not-For-Profit Cultural Sector

Like a lot of people who convocate with a Bachelor’s degree, the biggest question is “Now what?” In 1996, I had an expensive English degree, a specialization in creative writing, and not a lot of other options. (The other big question you get asked, especially with an English degree is: “Are you going to be […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2019 § Jobs § Library § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: alberta, book, economics, education, language, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “There’s the progress we have found (when the rain)/A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)/Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)/Isn’t anything at all (melt the statues in the park)/Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky”

This song is usually interpreted as being about acid rain but on the day Saskatchewan (and three other provinces) has a federal carbon tax enacted, I thought it was appropriate… “Fall On Me” – R.E.M.

¶ Posted 01 April 2019 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, language, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #6 – Comedy

After another week away from this series (honestly, I forgot I was doing this “How I Became Me” series last week after working a 1-9pm shift and, as I often do, whipping off a zero-effort post to keep my daily post streak alive instead of doing something a bit more in-depth and time-consuming.) Anyhow, […]

¶ Posted 28 March 2019 § Humour § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, parents, travel

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Wang, on Universal Basic Income

The guy seems like a longshot but so did Donald Trump four years ago!

¶ Posted 19 March 2019 § Jobs § News § Politics § Technology § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, philosophy, science, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – A Very Appropriately Named Board Game

The kids are obviously living up to the title of the board game by beating their parents pretty handily in a game of “Beat The Parents” tonight. 🙂

¶ Posted 16 March 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #5 – Sociability

Okay, let’s resume the series I started before we left for Mexico where I write about some of the major things that have impacted the person I am today. The first four were my parents, my friends, books and travel (I won’t link to them here as I’ll probably do a master list at the […]