(Stolen from a FB friend…) This was published in The Guardian – UK -, but also in France, Germany ….. The acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has
This is from Medicine Hat, Alberta, not Indian Head, Saskatchewan. But it’s absolutely insane that a litre of gas now costs *less* than when I started working at
These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you
Yes, the *next* mass pandemic. We dodged the bullet a few times with recent outbreaks like SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc. But some very smart people foresaw that a
Thursday March 12, 2020… Wednesday March 18, 2020… (Apparently we can now wipe with Alphabits!?!) 😉
Obviously, the pandemic is a shitty situation all around – people are losing their jobs, businesses are shutting down, our entire world has been disrupted in ways large
As a fan of dystopian literature, it’s still shocking how quickly we’ve gotten to this point. Within a couple months of COVID-19 appearing, we’ve shut down billion dollar
With apologies to Daniel Dafoe, some scenes from the past few days… Busy disinfecting everything in the house… I *love* my library’s “In the News” display. It’s been
I’ve heard stories about the chaos but I freaked myself out a bit when I hit a grocery store on the way home as it truly looked like
Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start
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