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A Letter From Italy, A Letter From Our Future…

(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 been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written a letter to fellow Europeans and all of us “from your […]

Posted 01 April 2020 § Meme § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

The Price of Gas Is Lower Than When I Started Working As A Gas Station in High School!

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 a gas station in 1989 when gas was 45.9 cents per litre  (49.9 for Supreme!) – a number imprinted on my brain the same way I still […]

Posted 31 March 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

10 Steps Society Needs To Take Before The *Next* Pandemic

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 devastating worldwide pandemic was inevitable due to the increasing number of viruses that were reaching humans. This is the result of a combination of humans aggressively moving […]

Posted 25 March 2020 § List § News § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “And the saddest thing would be/Is if you up and said to me/That you’re tired of running scared/And you really don’t care/About the ice age, baby”

I’m suddenly very interested in end-of-the-world songs for some reason… “Ice Age” – Hawksley Workman

Posted 23 March 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Before & After At the #YQR Corner Convenience Store

Thursday March 12, 2020… Wednesday March 18, 2020… (Apparently we can now wipe with Alphabits!?!) 😉

Posted 20 March 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Best Pandemic Books

Some stock up on toilet paper, some stock up on booze – why not stock up on reading material?

Posted 12 March 2020 § List § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World

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 heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease.  It’s a wild, […]

Posted 11 March 2020 § News § Politics § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Republican Presidents: Venn Diagram Version

(via Reddit)

Posted 04 March 2020 § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Fossilized Opal Dinosaur Tooth

Considering I barely passed Geology 101 with a 51% to get my undergrad science credit (whew!), I spend a lot of time these days thinking about dinosaurs, geologic time, and the makeup of our planet. I know we’re hardwired for it as a species but I also think a lot about how all humans (hi!) […]

Posted 22 January 2020 § Photo § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”

Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]

Posted 21 January 2020 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,