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Obituary For A Quiet Life

Perfect.

¶ Posted 26 September 2023 § Internet § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Secular Sunday – Jesus Is Always There…

¶ Posted 24 September 2023 § Humour § Meme § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, science

Friday Fun Link – Visualizing Why Americans Increasingly Use Sub-Titles

Not understanding accents. Poor sound mixing. Helps overcome noisy distractions while watching. (Ironically as I type this, Sasha is literally digging in the fridge asking if we have any yoghurt as Shea and I (try to) watch “Daisy Jones and the Six” – and yes, we have sub-titles on!) Bad hearing Not necessarily bad hearing […]

¶ Posted 22 September 2023 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, language, movies, television

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Keeping Them in Stitches (September 2013)

Pace ran into a tree and had to get stitches then, nearly a decade before Covid, used Skype to video chat with Grandpa and Grandma to show the war wounds…

¶ Posted 14 September 2023 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents

Secular Sunday – Men’s Testicle Location Strong Argument Against Intelligent Design

Easing back into my Secular Sunday posts with a funny Reddit post, inspired by a heat wave in Europe, ruminating on how the location of mens’ testicles is an argument against intelligent design!

¶ Posted 10 September 2023 § Humour § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, science

Friday Fun Link – “Is This Real Life?”

Pace had four wisdom teeth removed early on Friday morning. When he got home, I was reminded of this clip – one of the original viral videos of the YouTube age:

¶ Posted 08 September 2023 § Family § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, youtube

Saturday Snap – The Green Green Grass of Home?

We’re having our yard landscaped next week so, if I’m lucky, this might be a photo of the last time I cut grass in my life! (Also, funny coincidence – the kid’s climbing structure ended up going to…our former neighbours at our last house who saw the listing on Facebook and reached out. If I’d […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2023 § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, science

Friday Fun Link – Fuck Professionalism: Creating A Workplace That Works For All

So much of what we’re taught to believe from our earliest days, by our parents, by our schools, by popular culture, is outdated, incorrect and potentially even harmful such as the notion of “professionalism“.

¶ Posted 02 June 2023 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, language, orgdevl

If You’re Tired All The Time, It’s Not Your Fault

Fascinating article about changes in the way people sleep and why. (As usual, capitalism and the rich are to blame.) Good sleep is a human right, dammit!

¶ Posted 30 May 2023 § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, science

Lilly drug slows Alzheimer’s progression by 35 per cent in trial

As with cancer drugs and other research breakthroughs that sound promising, there are lots of times that exciting results come to nothing. But it still boggles my mind at how amazing science is to make those advances in the first place. My grandma was never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s/dementia but had many signs of it near […]