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Hawaii Trip – Almost there…

Posted 11 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “All that fibre optic gear/Cannot take away the fear/Like an island song”

Other than those opening lines about it being “cold, cold, cold” (today was +5), I think this is my theme song for the next couple weeks. Oh, and there’s also the line about “You’re caught up in the Internet/You think it’s such a great asset/But you’re wrong, wrong, wrong.”  Not sure how much I’ll be […]

Posted 09 January 2012 § Family § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Goodbye Snow!

Pace and I made what will likely be our last visit to the park by our house before we leave for Hawaii next week.  Then, when we got home, we found Shea cooking a tropical feast of shrimp and fish.  So I poured us all OJ’s and 7-up (and coconut rum for the adults) and […]

Posted 07 January 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Best Countries for Work-Life Balance

Canada comes in at #14 which means I’m moving to somewhere in Scandinavia. 😉 Just kidding but seriously, this isn’t that hard.  Having daycare spaces for everyone makes for a better work-life balance? No shit.  People not working a lot of extra hours makes a better work-life balance?  No shit.  Low child poverty makes for […]

Posted 06 January 2012 § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

In One Week…

…this is where I’ll be! (And with the waterproof case we got for my iPhone from Santa, this could very well be me taking this exact video!  Of course, it was +6 in Regina today and a high of +19 (!) in Maple Creek, SK so, with Lihue Kauai coming in at +23, my timing […]

Posted 05 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Come together/Right now/Over Me”

While Justin Bieber and especially Cee-Lo Brown were “interpreting” Beatles songs on New Year’s Eve for a TV audience of millions, three music legends – Steve Tyler, Alice Cooper and “Weird” Al Yankovic – teamed at a charity fundraiser in Maui to perform in front of a small crowd (filled entirely of people with camera […]

Posted 02 January 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Fortuna, North Dakota

In addition to web-based options, there are numerous businesses in communities just across the US-Canada border which have found a sideline in accepting parcels on behalf of Canadian clients who want items that can’t be shipped outside of the United States. Today, we visited the local bar in Fortuna, North Dakota (pop: 22) to retrieve […]

Posted 22 December 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ 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: , ,

Google 2011 Zeitgeist – Year in Review

Google has released an amazing video that captures the major highlights of the year (while also acting as a great showcase for their various services, especially Google+.) (via HuffPost)

Posted 15 December 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,