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Happy 11th Anniversary, Shea!

I posted this picture on our third anniversary back in 2006 but see that the link to the graphic’s ended up broken during one of my blog moves. So here’s the image once again – my favourite wedding picture (well, not counting the more spontaneous one of Shea running out of the water just as a […]

Why Libraries Deserve To Be Hip

A mother explains the value of libraries to her and her family. I like being among the people who come to my branch for English language classes, the retirees who sit and read the newspaper, the rowdy kids who are killing time before they go home, and moms of young children reading their tots Ezra […]

The Milestones of Your Little Rocket Scientist

(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

Holiday Visits = Tech Support Time

Went out to my parents’ for New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day.  As the image above notes, going home often means doing tech support – whether for Shea’s folks, my folks or anybody else I’m visiting. Not that I mind – I always am happy to have something I can contribute and am somewhat decent at […]

2013 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Sasha’s Born & Paul’s Not Dead, Ryan Meili Loses and the Riders Win

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Well, since Pace was born by caesarean section, this year I got to see my wife give birth (I mean, *really* give birth!) which is the type of thing that, as a husband, makes you less likely to complain about anything ever again! […]

Christmas 2013: By The Numbers

I haven’t blogged for a few days as I got overwhelmed and busy with that “real life” thing as Shea’s folks and mine joined us from the 27th until the 29th to have a belated Christmas together.  Here are a few numbers from the past week… 0 – number of times I’ve left the house […]

The Best Christmas Ever?

Only partly tongue-in-cheek, I often think that the best Christmas I ever had was when we were living in Calgary and Shea had to work on a 7am to 3pm shift on Christmas Day, leaving me all alone for the day. It sounds sad but it turned out to be a wonderful, relaxing, enjoyable day. […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 24 – Keep Christ in Christmas (aka Another Fictional Superhero On Our Van)

I had a few ideas of how to wrap up this series of Atheist Advent posts – a look at how politics and religion intersect, a review of my theories of why people (really) are religious, a disclaimer about the nature of offense in general. I will spend some time on that last point.  My […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 18 – Indoctrination Summarized in Three Short Lines

It’s been said that if there was a law making it illegal to introduce religion to a child, the same as our society does with other things children aren’t capable of handling such as alcohol, driving and gambling, religion would disappear within a single generation. I agree.

An Analysis of My YouTube Channel

I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2006.   This was the year we got our first digital camera.  It was also the year when I was doing my Masters degree so I was very interested in all kinds of online services including online broadcasting.  We were also living far from home so it was […]