Tag Archives: language

Music Monday – “Jesus was a black man, No, Jesus was Batman, no-no-no, that was Bruce Wayne!”

Okay, my Atheist Xmas series of posts is done but I just had to share this song which has one of the best lines ever (see post title)! Pace and I were dancing around listening to music the other day and this song from my England semester abroad came on.  I immediately thought of the […]

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]

Music Monday – “DA;LKJFWQ-E9UFE;LKJF;DLKJDA,M”

I’d bookmarked this clip of all of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits played at once as something that would make a humourous Music Monday post someday.  Revisiting it, I realise it also does a great job of replicating the way that my head feels right now  I hate being sick…

Sappy Sunday – “Today You, Tomorrow Me”

Although it wasn’t written for the holiday season (actually it was in a thread about picking up hitchhikers), a Redditor shares a “pay it forward” story that seems extremely appropriate at this time of the year.  “Today you, tomorrow me.”

Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]

Friday Fun(ny) Link – Baby’s First Word

When I was born, my parents were running a bulk fuel business in my hometown.  I was basically raised in the office of that ESSO fuel station for the first few years of my life (which explains a lot of my current brain damage and any future cancers I may acquire!) With the number of […]

Friday Fun Link – Sports Cliches

Looking forward to the big Riders game this weekend (though I’ve managed to double-book myself for Sunday afternoon so am thinking “PVR game and try to make it home from event without hearing/seeing/webbing the score” will have to be my strategy.  Not ideal since my most direct route home goes right past the stadium where […]

10 Things I Thought I Might Blog About Today

Just as TV and video games are changing the neural pathways of kids, I think having a blog has had a similar effect on me. Throughout the day, I frequently think “Oh, that witty comment is something I should blog about” or “Hmm, that idea I came across on Huffington Post deserves sharing” or “I […]