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Some Random Thoughts on TedXRegina

So I was one of the lucky 100 who got to attend TedXRegina on Wednesday at the ShuBox Theatre at the U of R. Here are some random thoughts about the day… – never realised until the night before while checking out the #tedxregina hashtag on Twitter that there were only 100 seats available as […]

Sappy Sunday – Happy Mother’s Day

Over the weekend, a guy I used to play hockey with posted a status update with a link to the blog he and his wife kept of their experiences while adopting a South African boy three years ago, a journey that culminated over Mother’s Day. I’ve direct linked to their Mother’s Day posts but it’s […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2012 § Family § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them…

¶ Posted 10 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, history, rant, unitedstates

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

¶ Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history, unitedstates

A Great Way To Fire Someone

I was talking with a colleague today about the process of having to fire people. I said I’d had this experience twice – once when I had to fire someone, once when I begged for clemency for an employee whose job was on the line. (I thought this employee was being targeted for the wrong […]

¶ Posted 08 May 2012 § Library § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

¶ Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: cool, music

“There’s a bear…strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I dunno.”

Christopher Walken read’s “Where The Wild Things Are“. Probably a fake but either way, wow, just wow.

¶ Posted 02 May 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, cool, movies

Happy May Day!

You’ll see this graphic a lot more in a couple days as “May the Fourth Be With You”. But I think this variation is quite appropriate for May Day:

¶ Posted 01 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: movies

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once every […]

¶ Posted 22 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, cute

What Is The Most Epic Photo of All-Time?

A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are. (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page. So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)