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“Rome Sweet Rome” – A Very Cool Web-Generated Novella

A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]

¶ Posted 04 September 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, cool, history, language, reddit

Saturday Snap – Bad Parenting Example #289

Letting your child use an upturned picnic table as a playhouse when camping… 😉

¶ Posted 03 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, holiday

Peoplemov.in: Migration Flows Across The World (and The Secret to Canada’s Future Success?)

This is a pretty cool data visualization tool which shows who is moving to and from various countries in the world, top destinations and more. This types into a recent article (which I can’t find now but there are many web sites making the same claim) that Canada needs to push its population to 100 […]

¶ Posted 16 August 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Aloha!

In 2002, Shea and I joined my parents for two weeks in Kailua, Oahu. We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be going again in January 2012 which will be the tenth anniversary of our first trip! This time, Shea and I decided we’d like to see something different so we’re going to spend one week in […]

¶ Posted 06 August 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: cool, holiday, parents, unitedstates

Our Newfoundland Itinerary

I thought it might be nice to post our Newfoundland itinerary with some of the details about what we did, stuff we ate (& drank!), where we ate, and other tips/suggestions for a trip to The Rock – both for our family and friends and for anyone who stumbles across this post looking for some […]

¶ Posted 14 July 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: holiday

Music Monday – “Sonny carries a load, he is barely a man/There’s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can/And he lives in a room, at the top of the stairs/And the sea keeps on rollin in, it’s done that for years.”

Yet another Newfoundland classic guaranteed to get everybody in the pub singing along…

¶ Posted 11 July 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: music

Newfoundland Trip – Saturday Snap – St. John’s Harbour

¶ Posted 10 July 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, holiday

Friday Fun Link – Newfoundland vs. Saskatchewan

We head for home tomorrow and after 10 days in Newfoundland, I’ve managed to confirm my long-held belief that Newfoundland and Saskatchewan are two of the most unexpectedly similar provinces in Canada. In Saskatchewan, we farm the land. In Newfoundland, they farm the sea. Both provinces have reputations for extremely friendly, welcoming people. To be […]