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Friday Fun Link – Arkanoid, Cosmic Avenger, Wayne Gretzky Hockey II

Pace and I have spent the evening watching YouTube videos of the video games I loved as a kid – here are YouTube videos of three of my all-time favourites:

¶ Posted 18 October 2019 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, hockey

Perhaps The Single Richest Irony of the Current Federal Election?

The most ironic (and frustrating and hypocritical) thing in this entire election is Liberal supporters who are saying a vote for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP is somehow a vote for Andrew Scheer – as if they hadn’t made electoral reform a *major* plank of their last platform (a platform that got them elected because […]

¶ Posted 15 October 2019 § Canada § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, rant

The Changing Nature of Freedom of Expression: Banning Books Is Anachronistic But Challenges Remain

Good article from The National Post about the changing nature of the debate around Freedom of Expression. What remains is that challenges still come from all sides of the political spectrum. …the bulk of work on freedom of expression is shifting from people who fruitlessly complain about books to attacks on journalists and bloggers. Also […]

¶ Posted 02 October 2019 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: freedomtoreadweek, language, philosophy

12 Most Offensive South Park Episodes

Shea and I went to see “Book of Mormon” today, one of the most successful, long-running Broadway shows of all-time, written and produced by the same guys who made South Park. I’ve been a fan of South Park since someone told me about “Rainbows? I hate rainbows!” but I don’t watch it as religiously (pun […]

¶ Posted 29 September 2019 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music, television

Saturday Snap – Building A Playground Is Building A Community

With our respective schedules, Shea and I end up with one Friday off together each month. Yesterday, we did some errands in the morning then went over to our kids’ school where, after years of fundraising by the Student Community Council, they were finally about to build a new playground structure with the help of […]

¶ Posted 14 September 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Quick Draw With Google

This is a pretty fun game (especially if you don’t think about the implications of millions of humans training Google’s AI systems so tech companies can control us more!) 😉