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Friday Fun Link – Saskatchewan 1973

A promo from local CTV affiliate, CKCK in the year of my birth…

Posted 18 May 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

The Playoffs Are Here!!!

A Ready-Made Google Calendar You Can Use Why the First Round of the Playoffs is Better Than the Finals How A Hockey Rink’s Surface Is Made: How Bad Do You Want It? My Predictions St Louis vs. San Jose Vancouver vs. Los Angeles Phoenix vs. Chicago Nashville vs. Detroit Boston vs. Washington (would like to […]

Posted 11 April 2012 § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “So we’ll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power”

RPL had a successful strike vote tonight which means this is my theme song for the foreseeable future…

Posted 02 April 2012 § Humour § Library § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Brad Wall Hates Renewables?

So it’s not a secret that a big part of the booming Saskatchewan economy is due to our massive non-renewable sector – potash and oil mainly but also natural gas and other similar resources at the expense of developing the renewable industry in any meaningful fashion. When we say “renewables”, most people think of things […]

Posted 28 March 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

(via MetaFilter)

Posted 23 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

I Love George Carlin

Posted 06 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I have felt some hard times/In my life/But I don’t want/To feel it anymore.”

I don’t watch David Letterman too often but happened to catch Paul McCartney’s son making his US network TV debut the other night and was impressed by this catchy tune. (And yes, he totally looks like his old man!)

Posted 06 February 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Today Is The Biggest Sporting Day of the Year

I am of course talking about “Scott Gomez Day” in which we will learn if an NHL player making $7 million dollars a year can go a full calendar year without scoring a single goal (since I’m writing this later in the day, we now know the answer – he can!) Luckily, the fans in […]

Posted 05 February 2012 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Top Tech Trends for 2012

I love this time of year for all the “Best of the Year”-type lists that come out.  And one of my absolute favourites of these type of lists are the “Top Tech Trends for the Coming Year” ones. For 2012, a writer for Mashable.com is predicting the following as the big trends: Touch Computing Social […]

Posted 20 December 2011 § Library § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas!  (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Posted 16 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,