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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 […]

Posted 01 September 2013 § Blog § Humour § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

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 […]

Posted 20 August 2013 § Internet § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

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Posted 08 August 2013 § Blog § Humour § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

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” – […]

Posted 22 July 2013 § Canada § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“A Mother’s Prayer” – by Tina Fey

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

Posted 14 July 2013 § Baby § Humour § Meme § Sad § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 04 July 2013 § Library § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

What’s Different In Canada?

Happy Canada Day!

Posted 30 June 2013 § Canada § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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 […]

Posted 25 June 2013 § Internet § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Definitely Ready For Grade One!

Hard to believe Pace is done Kindergarten next week – this year has really flown! He wrote this out without prompting the other day. Obviously, he’s got that alphabet-thing down – bring on spelling! 😉

Posted 22 June 2013 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sad § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Poetic Variations

Google Poetics Book spine poetry  (Google Images) Invented Poetry Forms

Posted 20 June 2013 § Humour § Internet § Library § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,