The controversial traveling show “Our Bodies” is at Regina's Science Centre right now and they're offering a lecture series each week to go with the topic. This week's subject was “Kids As Couch Potatoes” and that seemed fairly relevant to our lives these days so we decided to go check it out.Some random thoughts on […]
My hometown of Indian Head is one of two Saskatchewan finalists for a $25 000 make-over courtesy Kraft & TSN. You can vote for Indian Head today until noon. If we get the most votes, the money will be used to upgrade our historic ball diamonds (20 000 people used to come to our small […]
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
I recently bought a gizmo to convert old VHS tapes and other analog signals to a digital format. As I was getting it set-up for the first time, I picked a couple clips I had from around ten years ago – one where I'm featured fairly prominently and one where you get to see my […]
Not sure if you heard but apparently the Wet & Rainy Olympics are in Canada this year and the opening ceremonies are tonight. The Olympics are once again a lightning rod of controversy and having them on our own doorstep has perhaps brought this home in a way that doesn't happen when they're in Italy […]
Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube. Sorry for the crappy sound…
We went to Indian Head to have an early Christmas with my folks this weekend and at one point my mom suggested renting a movie to keep Pace entertained. It did not even cross my mind that she meant VHS movie instead of DVD (let alone streaming video or BitTorrent or some of the other […]
Is there any other link today than the archive of the live U2 concert that was broadcast on YouTube last night? I haven't seen any final figures yet but some media outlets were reporting that there was likely an audience of hundreds of thousands of viewers watching live around the world and that figure will […]
In honour of the last episode of “Corner Gas” tonight, here's one of my favourite songs by the Odds, the former band of Craig Northey who wrote the “Corner Gas” theme song, “Not A Lot Going On”. (Unfortunately, the clip is from MuchMoreMusic who have more crap around the edge of the screen than the […]
My hometown served as a backdrop for many of the exterior shots of the CBC comedy, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (Saskatchewan has a film tax credit that gives incentives for productions to shoot here and increases the benefit if you shoot a certain distance outside our cities. Indian Head is just outside this zone, […]
