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Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame

This TED talk has been making the rounds since being posted a week ago and is approaching one million views on YouTube. It’s very interesting for Lewinsky’s observations on being at the epi-centre of our now common social media world where everyone can voice opinions on the news of the day, often reaching huge audiences, […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2015 § Humour § Internet § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Maui Sunset (January 2012)

Pace suggested it would be better to have the words in different colours on this post…

¶ Posted 19 March 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, travel

The Story of a Bedtime

So tonight was fairly routine at the start… Pace has his snack while watching videos on the iPad. Shea reads Sasha a story and then nurses her before putting her to bed. Sasha immediately starts crying in her crib as she’s been doing lately. I go check on Sasha and she’s got a wet diaper […]

¶ Posted 20 January 2015 § Baby § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Politics § Sasha § Shea § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute

Music Monday – “We got the kinda love/A blind man can see” (American Idol’s Best Audition So Far This Season)

American Idol is one of my guilty pleasures. It’s fascinating how they put together the show – especially the audition rounds to add narratives to what is otherwise a series of very similar clips. For example, they’ll show a montage of one judge being mean to every contestant only to cut to them being blown […]

¶ Posted 19 January 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Powerful Reddit Thread Reveals How Poor Get By In America

The Washington Post picked up a recent Reddit thread which asked what do insanely poor people buy that ordinary people know nothing about? Absolutely heartbreaking stories.

¶ Posted 14 January 2015 § Internet § Jobs § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health

Two Dozen Retailers Won’t Open on American #Thanksgiving (And They’re Shaming the Ones That Will)

Some of the best known companies in the United States including Costco, Home Depot and TJ Maxx have taken a family-first approach to American Thanksgiving after watching “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving named as such since it’s the day many retailers “get in the black” for the year) increasingly encroaching on one of America’s biggest family holidays. […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2014 § Family § Jobs § United States § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, holiday

Pirate Joes: A Unique Take on Cross-Border Shopping

A friend in Vancouver posted this story on Facebook mentioning that the story of a local man who’s going across the border, buying hundreds of thousands of dollars from Trader Joe’s (which doesn’t have stores in Canada) then re-selling the goods at his “Pirate Joe’s Store” is apparently a big deal out there. I’m obviously […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2014 § Canada § Jobs § PopCulture § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: copyright, economics, travel

The Falling Man: The Most Famous Image Most People Haven’t Seen

Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n how much our world has changed since 2001 and raises some questions on how it might have been different had a similar disaster occurred in 2014? Would the […]

¶ Posted 11 September 2014 § Censorship § Internet § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Friday Fun Link – All The Cool Kids Hang Out at the Library

More on how the earliest recorded signature of Elvis Presley was discovered.

¶ Posted 05 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, cool, music

Holiday Weekend Catch-Up

I took a couple days off on Monday and Tuesday to have an extended long weekend to go camping with Shea’s and my folks and to attend Shea’s cousin’s wedding. Which means I need to do another extended weekend catch-up of missed blog posts… Saturday Snap As mentioned, we went to Shea’s cousin’s wedding at […]