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Friday Fun Link – A $2.5 Billion Robot, Designed To Function on Mars For Two Years, Is Still Working 13 Years Later!

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped… https://t.co/AzXQenKDnH — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2026 § FridayFunLink § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Technology § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, education, science

Music Monday – “Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don’t take it all/’Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman.”

“Taxman” – The Beatles

¶ Posted 23 March 2026 § Library § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: beatles

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education, health, history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Film Tax Credit Cuts Protest (May 2012)

There have been a lot of mistakes, a lot of missteps and a lot of deficit budgets. But cutting the Sask Film Tax Credit is arguably the single most negative impact the Sask Party has had on our province – chasing away film production and the skilled people who worked in the industry *just* as […]

¶ Posted 19 March 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, movies, saskatchewan, television

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

¶ Posted 18 March 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, language

Wisdom Wednesday – What Constitutes Great Customer Service (and How Far Is Too Far?)

A recent post in a Regina Rant & Rave group on FB got a lot of attention. Basically, a disabled person went to a Co-op gas station to get air in a low tire but couldn’t get it to work. They talked to the manager who didn’t help. But then a sixteen year old gas […]