First Lines from Each Month of My 2012 Blog Posts

 

  • January – “I’ve made no secret of my love of lists and how this is the best time of the year for lists.”
  • February – “I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.”
  • March – “My prediction?  This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all.”
  • April – “I’ve done some April Fool’s jokes on this blog before but this year, it sort of snuck up on me so I didn’t have anything planned.”
  • May – “You’ll see this graphic a lot more in a couple days as “May the Fourth Be With You””
  • June – “An interesting question – people are asked to take a photo of what they’d take from their house if it was burning down. “
  • July – “Former Saskatchewan Premier and Healthcare Commission Chair, Roy Romanow celebrates Canada Day with a column in the Globe & Mail on perhaps our most cherished Canadian institution.”
  • August – “The C-64 was the first computer I interacted with on a regular basis.”
  • September – “Went to a co-worker’s wedding today and felt like I virtually attended another one with how many updates I was seeing on my Facebook newsfeed.”
  • October – “I’ve got a well-documented love/hate relationship with Wikipedia.”
  • November – “Lots of interesting looking books on this list.”
  • December – “A few shots from the past week”

Saturday Snap – A Historic Document!

Shea and I were cleaning out the basement today and came across the note I’d sent her mom acknowledging receipt of a damage deposit before Shea moved into a condo my family owned by U of R.

I always joke that Shea couldn’t pay her rent one month and next thing I knew, we were married! 😉 But the reality is that we were pretty lucky to get to live together and know each other as friends before friends turned to something more.

Another ongoing joke is that Shea’s mom still doesn’t know when we started dating because of how that transition happened! I can now confirm it was sometime after May 19, 1997!

Oh, and a very cool coincidence – ten years to the day after this note is dated – May 19, 2007 – is when Pace was born!

Must’ve been fate! 😉

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Friday Fun Link – 40 Song Xmas Song Medley

If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond):

(via /r/christmasmusic.  You may also want to check out /r/lookatmytree)

Which Book Made The Most “Best of” Lists in 2012?

This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists?  (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!)  Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad!

In my own defense, I have read many of the others that were on multiple lists – “The Fault in Our Stars”, “Gone Girl”, “Beyond the Beautiful Forevers”, etc.

On that note, I (and others) really miss Fimoculous.com’s aggregation of the “Best of” lists of the year.

Wrapper’s Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper

From The Atlantic.

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!)

Merry Christmas 2012!

It’s A Girl!

A pretty awesome Christmas gift!

Shea and I got to find out the sex of our baby at the same time our parents did earlier tonight.

During our last ultrasound, we got the tech to put the sex of the baby in a sealed envelope then handed that to a trusted friend along with a blue and pink jumper and instructions to wrap the right one!  Then Shea, Pace & I opened that very special present together on Christmas Eve along with the rest of our family.

Video to follow once I figure out how to edit out Pace’s tantrum when he realises he’s going to have a sister instead of a brother! 😉

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A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Saturday Snap – I’m Batman!

Pace got a hold of the iPad again…

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Friday Fun Link – #yqr Self-Guided Twinkle Tour

The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day.  The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw.

Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – a Google Maps mash-up of some of the best light displays in Regina.

I mentioned this mash-up on the original FB thread which got me a shout out from the Centre of the Arts in return.