My son not only did all the stunts in this video but stitched them together in iMovie.
He’s going to be the world’s first combination stuntman/film editor! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19bCFKidRM
My son not only did all the stunts in this video but stitched them together in iMovie.
He’s going to be the world’s first combination stuntman/film editor! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19bCFKidRM
In this election cycle, sure, why not?
The Trans-Canada Highwaymen is another Canadian supergroup made up of members of Sloan, Barenaked Ladies, The Odds, and Pursuit of Happiness with a conceit that they’ll play hits from their own bands but only songs that each member wrote for their other groups (which is why it’s ironic that they stick a bit of “Poets” by the Tragically Hip in the clip below!)
[Various Songs Sampler] – Trans-Canada Highwaymen
Shea and I rarely take three weeks’ vacation at a time – we usually spread our holiday allotment out through the year –Â some in the winter (especially in years when we can afford a hot holiday), a week or two in summer (sometimes together and sometimes not) and then a few days around Christmas and/or assorted other days here and there throughout the year.
But I realised the other day that we had a funny coincidence with our holidays this year – we took a three week long summer holiday when Pace was three years old and we did it again this year now that Sasha’s three.
It’s been a great holiday that unintentionally became a walk down memory lane in many ways…
I’m sure there are numerous other throwbacks that I’m not including here (and admittedly, some of these flashbacks are inevitable when you holiday in and around places you’ve spent your whole life rather than going somewhere you’d never been before.)
But as I said, it just struck me that so many of the events of this particular holiday ended up with a mist of nostalgia on them!
A friend who was in Luther dorms at the same time I was back in the early 1990’s was going to be passing through Regina from her home in Ottawa during her summer holidays.
She reached out to a few people to see if there’d be any interest in having a mini-reunion at Luther College, one thing led to another, and today, a handful of former students, spouses and their kids gathered to see our old residence, some of the rooms that are currently undergoing renovations, grab a meal in the old cafeteria and catch up generally.
The Luther Alumni Association got involved as well and it turned into a very fun day for everyone!
As a 43-year old white male, I feel duty-bound to post this funny piece that came out last week and which shows how silly many web articles about an entire generation sound when applied to a very specific slice of demography…
Some examples…
How Tumblr Plans To Pay 43-Year-Old White Men To Blog
?—?Inc.
Is The Future Of Your Church Doomed Without 43-Year-Old White Men?
— Christian Post
Why Employers Need To Empathize With ‘Entitled’ 43-Year-Old White Men
— Fortune
Soon after Shea came to join me in London when I started my Masters degree in January 2006, we rented a car and like the good tourists we were, headed for Niagara Falls.
Going to the falls in mid-winter seems strange but someone (a classmate?) had tipped us off that they’re actually really beautiful in the winter and that proved to be true. Â (Contrary to the photo below, they’re also very safe. Â The mist of the falls freezes on the rails and barriers but the walkways are fairly clean – I think they may even be heated?)
And actually, come to think of it – Niagara Falls wasn’t even our initial destination that day.  We had rented a car for the weekend and were heading somewhere else closer but less well-known.  So, on a spur-of-the-moment as we drove the opposite way of the Falls out of London, we decided to drive to the Falls which was something like a 2.5 hour drive, even if you were pointed in the right direction to begin with!
I still remember a lot of Ontario-based classmates being surprised that we’d do such a long drive but I explained that in Saskatchewan, where the nearest major city to Regina is 2.5 hours away, that’s not a big deal!
(We did end up having to buy toques at the Niagara Falls gift shop which I thought was pretty funny in terms of souvenirs!)Â to join
Most recent US Presidential elections get tagged as the first “something” – the first TV election, the first Internet election, etc.
I think it’s pretty clear that 2016 is the first Cyber-Security election…
Those are just a few of the major incidents off the top of my head. Â I’m sure there are others!
Even after controlling for other factors that may mean some people are more likely to read than others (education, gender, age, etc.), a recent study shows that people who read more are more likely to live longer…
Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up, and those who read more than that were 23 percent less likely to die. Book readers lived an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all.
I’ve heard this song before but after hearing it on a random Americana playlist last Friday and suddenly I can’t get it out of my head…
“Blue” – The Jayhawks