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Saturday Snap – #yqr Science Rendezvous

Shea took Pace and Sasha to ScienceRendezvous which was happening at the U of R on Saturday. This is a cross-country day celebrating science.  At the U of R, all the various science faculties got together to do demonstrations for the general public.  I was working but was able to run out to the Uni over my […]

Posted 10 May 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

How To Be Happy: The Science Behind Happiness

Posted 29 April 2014 § Infographic § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – One Year Check-up

Sasha enjoying her one year check-up with one of Saskatchewan’s best doctors…

Posted 12 April 2014 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

What Fact Do You Accept Intellectually Even Though It Still Feels “Wrong” To You?

Lots of cool answers in this AskReddit question… There are perfectly nice, reasonable, intelligent people who disagree with my political opinions. You can get from North Korea to Finland by going through one country. That if you don’t have a kid, you’re the first one since your ancestral line started [edit: not just human line […]

Posted 10 April 2014 § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

“Friends and Family in the News” Edition

Saskatchewan Naval Commander Helps Drug Bust Victoria Divita, only the fourth woman in history to command a Canadian Naval vessel, is from Indian Head. I grew up with Victoria (though I knew her as “Vickie”), she was in my sister’s grade, a couple years younger than me, and in fact, her older brother was best […]

Posted 27 March 2014 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – One Thing I Noticed About Pace’s Report Card…

I have an English degree so can’t help but notice that Pace went from “MEeeting” to “EsTablished” (which is the highest level in the school’s rating system) in English Language Arts between the first and second terms of Grade One. Shea has a degree in Nursing and I also noticed that his Health Education mark […]

Posted 22 March 2014 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

MyGutTellsMe.com

When I was in library school, one of the things that happened at the start of each semester was a mixer with current students and the new crop of future librarians. I remember one of these sessions on the patio of the Grad Club when I ended up sitting next to Barb Janicek. She struck […]

Posted 08 January 2014 § Blog § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Music Monday – “You only need to pray in a particular spot/To a particular version of a particular god/And if you pull that off without a hitch/He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch”

This story of Sam’s has but a single explanation: a surgical God who digs on magic explanations. It couldn’t be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam’s parish congregation. And it couldn’t be that all these pious people are liars. It […]

Posted 09 December 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia’s List of Emerging Technologies

Covering all kinds of sectors from energy to manufacturing to health and more.  Fascinating glimpse at the near future.

Posted 08 November 2013 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Finally Time To Call The Tooth Fairy!

What’s the going rate for teeth these days?  I think I used to get a quarter per tooth but there’s probably been some inflation since then! 😉

Posted 26 October 2013 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: