Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand.
Pretty shocking development in the fake/real world of WWE, not only that top star Roman Reigns dropped his persona during the opening promo of RAW to announce he had leukemia, but also the revelation that he first battled leukemia *eleven years ago* and this wasn’t public knowledge and/or exploited by the WWE who have exploited pretty much everything they could to make a buck over the years.
More discussion of this sad news on r/squaredcircle and (perhaps surprisingly?) MetaFilter which has this amazing in retrospect anecdote…
I’ve mentioned my daughter on here a few times because she had cancer and got to meet Bayley.
Well, in June, Bayley invited us to the MSG house show and took us backstage to meet a few of the superstars. We met Ronda and Matt Hardy and Seth and a few others. But before we left, Roman walked into the catering area that we were in. Sam mainly likes Bayley and doesn’t recognize lots of the wrestlers but she knew him.
So he came over and Bayley introduced Sam, he told her how proud he was that she had beaten cancer, and in a moment I didn’t think of until yesterday, mentioned how he had to fight something like her before he started wrestling.
This song is probably my current favourite on Colter Wall’s new album and I also like that the clip I’m posting features Brad Wall’s son joking about smoking a big joint. 😉
I wont’t be blazing any icky…sticky, dank or otherwise. But thanks for thinking of me…..bud. https://t.co/lDkWL2rMeT
It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song to last.fm to build my profile) some but not all of my music listening, probably sometime in the last couple months or so.
Deezer moved to a new site design recently and I also dropped from their “Family” plan back to “Premium” so I think one of those things might be what broke my last.fm accounts (though I look at some online forums which indicate others are having this same issue so maybe not?)
At any rate, now I’m scrambling to figure out how to reconnect my laptop [edit: solved by disconnecting Last.fm integration and then reauthorizing] and smartphone because it freaks out my anal retentive librarian brain to think that I won’t have a full and accurate record of every song I’ve ever listened to at home, in the car and at the campsite! 🙂
Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines.
But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂
Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world.
Figured this would be a good week to dig deep in the photo albums for a shot from a weekend trip to Amsterdam our host college arranged while I was on a semester exchange to England in 1995.
(That England trip will probably fill 7/10 spots if I ever do a “Fondest Pot Memories” list like I mentioned yesterday!) 🙂
