One great thing about our year in Ontario for library school was we tried to get away as much as we could on weekends and during semester breaks to various destinations in the area.
Probably our biggest trip was during a semester break when we took the train to Montreal. A highlight was throwing together a simple picnic in a park near our hostel (though, with my limited French, I’m not convinced the “wine” we picked up at a local grocery store wasn’t actually cooking sherry!) 😉
I’m a bit behind on my daily blog posts so catching up on the ones I missed since Wednesday starting with a very important one.
(Apparently new boots are the secret to life, the universe and everything!) 😉
Wow – never realised that the head of CloudFlare is from Saskatchewan
For the record, Zatlyn’s stake in Cloudflare, based on its market capitalization of $28 billion, amounts to over $1 billion. That’s ‘one’ with nine zeros after it. We’re in a binary digital world but that one and all those zeros mean so much more than code. However, she’s clearly not as interested in her bank balance as I am, although agrees to give the billion-dollar question further consideration… but not yet.
(PS – billionaires are a policy failure, even when they’re from my home province!) 😉
Watched “Juliet, Naked” this weekend with Shea (who thought the tale of an obnoxiously nitpicky music obsessive hit a bit too close to home for her!) 😉
Anyhow, this song played a pivotal part of the movie…
“Waterloo Sunset” – The Kinks
I said yesterday’s visit to Mexico would be our only one but we enjoyed it so much, we decided to go again to celebrate Valentine’s Day! 😉
(We’re not the only ones missing beach vacations apparently but this is pretty extreme!)
Buy a six pack of Sol at the liquor store, some limes at the grocery store, and put beach videos on the TV. 🙁
(But hey, at least we’re being safer than overly entitled snowbirds!)
The NYPL has a Buzzfeed-esque quiz that’s pretty fun…
In hindsight, letting a 10-year old parkour addict jump off the snow-covered garage into a big pile of snow was probably not the wisest decision of my parenting career (and isn’t that usually the stuff you do when your parents aren’t watching anyhow?)
Donald Trump’s *second* impeachment began yesterday and this was one of the first videos shown summarizing the insurrection of January 6 (very telling it comes with a warning!)…
With Tom Brady’s latest Super Bowl win possibly cementing his status as the greatest American football player of all-time, it’s also sparked debates about who is the greatest athlete of all-time?
Serious question. If Tom Brady having won more Super Bowls than every franchise in the NFL history isn't the most amazing individual statistic in sports, what is?
— Stewart Flaherty (@stewartflaherty) February 8, 2021
There are a lot of factors to be considered – is it based on playoff success? Longevity? Total points? Gaps between all-time points production and next most successful athlete in the same sport? Success across different teams? Does it matter if its success in team sports vs. someone who excelled in an individual sport? What about the demands of the sport itself? Or the position someone plays within that sport? Do we take into account biases based on recency? Gender? Race?
Anyhow, I came across this guy as one suggestion of a strong (literally!) contender for the GOAT title and I’m not going to argue!
