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A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history

Our New rPod 182g Ultralight RV

Shea and I had a pretty expensive visit to Indian Head earlier this summer. We went to the splash park and happened to bump into some friends who were back from Calgary for a few days. In the course of talking to them, they told us they’d just bought a new rPod camper. We’d seen one […]

¶ Posted 04 September 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: camping, cute, economics, saskatchewan

Music Monday – Fur Elise in Different Tastes

A man sits down to play a piano that’s been put at one of the gates at an airport in Prague. Other passengers who are waiting get a pretty good performance…

¶ Posted 01 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun LInk – “The Coolest” Cooler Breaks Pebble’s Kickstarter Record

The Coolest – a modern cooler integrating all kinds of cool technology and gimzos has unseated Pebble’s over two year long record for highest earning Kickstarter offering, earning $10.7 million to Pebble’s $10.3 million. The Kickstarter has closed now so you can’t get in, even if you wanted to (I did for Pebble but not […]

¶ Posted 29 August 2014 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics

Friday Fun Link – GasRun.ca

GasRun. ca is a pretty cool site that uses your location to estimate the day’s gas price then allows you to enter two destination points and the type of vehicle you drive to estimate how much it would cost for you to travel one-way or return between those two points. So, as an example, I typed […]

¶ Posted 22 August 2014 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, cool, economics, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “On the Read Again: Southeast Regional Library Bookmobile”

It wasn’t in service when I worked at Southeast Regional Library but one day coming back from a branch, I noticed this parked in the compound of a local auto wrecker and snapped a picture (and yes, briefly considered making an offer on it!) Man, how much of the public library’s history across North America […]

¶ Posted 14 August 2014 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, saskatchewan

How Fan Loyalty Changed Throughout the World Cup / World Cup Footballs Throughout History

Congrats Germany! A couple final World Cup links… How fan loyalty changed throughout the World Cup World Cup footballs throughout history A cool fan-made video does a great job of capturing what it’d be like to be there, taking in the World Cup festivities (although he seems overly taken with the “RAF from England shot […]

¶ Posted 13 July 2014 § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Sports § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, history

Solar Panels Could Replace Pavement on Highways and Roads

Yes, please!

¶ Posted 29 May 2014 § Politics § Technology § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, science

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

The Stanley Cup playoffs are heating up but it’s still the off season for some teams. The official Twitter accounts of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Tampa Bay Lightning engaged in what is perhaps the world’s first game of Twitter Tac Toe! “Dad Jokes” are shorthand for lame jokes that inevitably get groans from […]