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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: ,

Secular Sunday – The Scale of the Universe

Ricky Gervais is one of my favourite comics (and one of my favourite atheists too!)… (via Reddit)

Posted 19 January 2020 § Meme § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Ranking the Nine Star Wars Movies (1977 to 2020)

Finally got to see a matinee of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” the other day so have now seen all three trilogies comprising nine total films within the main Star Wars universe. Like many kids of the 1980’s, Star Wars was a pretty major part of my childhood. The first “Star Wars” movie (later […]

Posted 09 January 2020 § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,