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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Years Eve Countdown, Iberostar Varadero (December 31, 2015)

Hard to believe that just over a year ago, we were celebrating New Year’s Eve in Cuba!

¶ Posted 05 January 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, food, holiday, parents, travel, xmas

Silent Night by Chewbacca

You’re welcome.

¶ Posted 21 December 2016 § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Radio Garden: Listen To The World

This should probably be a Friday Fun Link but it’s so cool, I wanted to share it right away. More than a streaming service, Radio Garden allows you to easily move from radio station to radio station around the world in a very intuitive, easy-to-use fashion (although Chrome has WebGL disabled by default so you’ll either […]

¶ Posted 20 December 2016 § Canada § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, music, travel, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – How Easily Are People Led?

Comedian Bo Burnham shows how easily it is to trick people and get them to say or do things that they normally wouldn’t which is *very* relevant in light of the success of Donald Trump… A German entertainer made the same point way back in 1973 which also turns out to be *very* relevant in […]

¶ Posted 16 December 2016 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Music Monday – “An old man said to me, won’t see another one/And then he sang a song, The rare old mountain dew/I turned my face away/And dreamed about you”

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about getting older, life, and mortality the past year in a variety of ways – from unexpected illness (Gord Downie) and death (Prince, David Bowie) of relatively young celebrities to the death of my Aunt Verna who is my first aunt or uncle to die out of my […]

¶ Posted 12 December 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Photo § PopCulture § UK § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, music, xmas

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Randomness § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, history, ontario, unitedstates

The Need to Read: Books Remain One of the Best Ways of Engaging With the World, Becoming A Better Person and Understanding Life’s Questions

This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal which is extra relevant in the post-factual world of Donald Trump (who, just today, is now claiming he not only won the electoral college but also won the popular vote and Hillary only won due to millions of people voting illegally. This is insanely incorrect and therefore, […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2016 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education

Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents

A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…

¶ Posted 18 November 2016 § Canada § Jobs § PopCulture § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, movies, travel

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]