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Dying Man’s Wish – Leave $500 Tip on a Pizza Order

I’m not sure if this fits as a May Day story or not but I like the sentiment – people who do tough jobs for very little reward sometimes deserve to be surprised with some over-the-top generosity (although there’s also a flip side argument that if we paid decent wages to our servers, tipping wouldn’t […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2013 § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, unitedstates

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: book, holiday, music

The Universe Is Very Big

The distance from Earth to Mars (if the Earth was 100 pixels wide) The Scale of the Universe …and the top rated photos in Reddit’s /r/spaceporn

¶ Posted 04 April 2013 § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

The 21st Century Calculator Watch?

When I was a kid, the cartoon “Battle of the Planets” was a huge deal for me and my friends. One of the many cool things about the show was that “the G-Force members stay in contact through a wrist-band communicator device.” In grade one, I still remember how I convinced a bunch of my […]

¶ Posted 03 April 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: television

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day. Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, language, reddit, science, weather

Music Monday – “L’Odyssée de la Vie”

No words for me to quote in the title of this week’s post like I usually do. But the epic choral and instrumental music is a perfect soundtrack for this awesome video as Shea and I are down to around a month or so until our baby comes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8vrt2ebnk

¶ Posted 25 March 2013 § Baby § Family § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

Music Monday – “And who by brave assent/Who by accident/Who in solitude/Who in this mirror”

Cool video by Buck 65 covering Leonard Cohen…

¶ Posted 19 March 2013 § Canada § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Amazing Sound & Water Experiment

This is pretty cool…

¶ Posted 15 March 2013 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

@ryanmeili Music Monday – “We had a lot of fun/We had a lot of money”

As I continue the transition from a blog that was “all politics, all the time” for much of the last six months to one that’s back to being a bit more balanced between the posts about libraries, technology, family and yes, still the occasional political post, I thought I’d start by resurrecting one of my […]