Tag Archives: language

Saturday Snap – Pace’s Grade One Class Names

It’s interesting to see the trends in kid’s names via the “Name Board” in Pace’s Grade One classroom. Lots of “A” names, “K” names, “M” names; lots of “aid” sounds (Braydon, Jaden, Kayden); a few classic names (Ava, Gwendolyn, Paige). Anything else jump out?

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff…   And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…

This isn’t where I got the name for my Head Tale blog…

…but I kinda wish it was! 😉 Atheism and religion are like two sides of a coin..one prefers to use heads, other relies on tales (This quote was posted to a thread on Quora about favourite atheist jokes.  The actual story of how this site got its name, which I may have told before, is […]

Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” Beatles Series

Way back in the early days of my use of the Internet (around 1996-97), I spent *a lot* of time on Usenet (basically, a precursor of today’s message boards and forums.) I regularly visited a few newsgroups including rec.music.beatles which is where I first came across Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” series where he’d do an […]

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Music Monday – “It’s like rain/On your wedding day/In a place you chose/That’s not known for rain.”

Two New York sisters (who are obviously future copy editors) re-work one of Alanis Morrisette’s most famous songs so that it’s finally accurate.  Or to put it another way, “The only ironic thing about the [original Alanis Morrisette] song is that it’s written by someone who doesn’t know what irony is.” “It’s Finally Ironic” – […]

“A Mother’s Prayer” – by Tina Fey

And a father’s prayer too (especially that part about not lying with drummers)… 😉

From The “News That Does Not Surprise Me” Department…

“Lifetime of Reading Slows Cognitive Decline” “Habitual participation in cognitively stimulating pursuits over a lifetime might substantially increase the efficiency of some cognitive systems,” writes a research team led by neuropsychologist Robert Wilson of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. This efficiency apparently counteracts the often-devastating effects of nervous system diseases. Wilson and his colleagues describe a study […]

What’s Different In Canada?

Happy Canada Day!

How Facebook Changes Your Brain

An interesting article about the ways that Facebook affects our thinking… We learn to see the present as a “future past” and focus on how we will document, and self-document, even as the events are transpiring around us. And what happens? It distracts us. In the process of tweeting, posting a Facebook status, choosing the right […]