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Study Shows Lower Mortality Rate for Overweight People

I honestly thought this was a fake news headline from The Onion when I saw it in my Twitter feed.  Turns out it’s a story from the New York Times! (Now where’d I leave that bag of Doritos?)

Posted 08 January 2013 § Humour ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video…  (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video.  And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

Posted 04 January 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed […]

Posted 31 December 2012 § Meme § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Censorship § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds.  Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, […]

Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § Meme § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

First Picture of Hammond 2.0

Posted 06 December 2012 § Baby § Family § Photo § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Going Green in Calgary Centre? I Hope So (And I Don’t Care Who Knows!)

This is probably not a great thing to admit to while not only doing a lot of writing about but also heavily volunteering for one of four NDP leadership candidates here in Saskatchewan. But I have to admit that if I still lived in Calgary Centre, I’m fairly certain I’d be voting for the Green […]

Posted 25 November 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

2012 Tesla Model S Electric Car Wins MotorTrend “Car of the Year” Award by Unanimous Vote

The Tesla company which produces electric cars and which Mitt Romney infamously labelled a “loser” after Barack Obama’s government invested in it, recently won MotorTrend’s “Car of the Year” award by unanimous vote which was also the first win by an electric car in the 64-year history of the award.  (Now who’s laughing, Mitt?) Now I […]

Posted 18 November 2012 § Jobs § Politics § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Analysing the Reading Level of the 21 Most Popular Sub-Reddits

Cool idea but not too many surprises on this list – the science sub-reddit is really high (just shy of grade 9 level) and the one for people who smoke pot is really low (just shy of grade 5 level).  Also nice to see /r/atheism come in as one of the top three most advanced […]

Posted 09 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: