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Category Archives: Wisdom

How Do You Make Santa Real For Your Kids?

This is a question I posed to MetaFilter last year and am now revisiting this year.  (I was reminded of that question after seeing a recent one about creating Christmas traditions for your nieces and nephews .) This is, by far, the most favourited comment in that thread: When I was four, my parents totally rigged […]

Posted 28 November 2012 § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

@ryanMeili Monday – Peeking Under The Troll Bridge #skndpldr

My colleague on the Meili 2.0 Team, Aaron Genest, has written a blog post about the level of animosity that he’s observed in the Sask NDP Leadership race so far. The topic of how we talk to (and about) each other has been on my thoughts as well for a variety of different reasons – […]

Posted 26 November 2012 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Going Green in Calgary Centre? I Hope So (And I Don’t Care Who Knows!)

This is probably not a great thing to admit to while not only doing a lot of writing about but also heavily volunteering for one of four NDP leadership candidates here in Saskatchewan. But I have to admit that if I still lived in Calgary Centre, I’m fairly certain I’d be voting for the Green […]

Posted 25 November 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Love Everybody

A pretty heart-warming video, even if I’ve been trained to be cynical enough about videos like this that at the end I thought it was probably a viral video for Coke! (Turns out it’s a charitable foundation called Love Everybody). (via LyinRPL)  

Posted 16 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Politics § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Genius: The Nickelback Story

Very interesting story about how Nickelback has gone from Hanna, AB to one of the biggest and most successful bands on earth.

Posted 14 November 2012 § Canada § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some Atheism-Related Political Articles

Penn Jillette with a great monologue/rant about various aspects of religion & politics and where they intersect – from how most “Christians” have united under a single banner in the last 40 years at the expense of early atheists like Mark Twain to the growing influence of non-believers in politics plus Mitt Romney’s magic underwear […]

Posted 13 November 2012 § Humour § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Analysing the Reading Level of the 21 Most Popular Sub-Reddits

Cool idea but not too many surprises on this list – the science sub-reddit is really high (just shy of grade 9 level) and the one for people who smoke pot is really low (just shy of grade 5 level).  Also nice to see /r/atheism come in as one of the top three most advanced […]

Posted 09 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Obama Speaks To A Room Of Volunteers Post-Election

Inspirational… And this clip from Rachel Maddow is pretty good too.

Posted 08 November 2012 § Politics § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Regina Public Library is now on Twitter (And So Are A Lot of Other People)

Regina Public Library has officially launched their official Twitter account at @OfficialRPL. It’s good to see as it’s been a long time coming. In fact, I’ve advocated for us to get on Twitter many times in my four years at RPL and I know others who were pushing for the addition of that service long […]

Posted 07 November 2012 § Humour § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

@ryanMeili Monday Redux – Punching Above Your Weight as #skndpldr #nyc #manhattan

With Ryan Meili in New York today for the launch of “A Healthy Society” at Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan at 7pm (and with him getting some pretty high profile attention via a post by Niki Ashton on Michael Moore’s web site), I thought it might be worth re-posting a link to an earlier blog post […]

Posted 05 November 2012 § Canada § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,