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Elbows Up!
Mark Carney & Mike Myers, via YouTube Canadians are an odd breed. While I think most of us love our country, we do not brag about it, or...
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Survivorman vs. Wild?
Survivorman Logo, via YouTube The TV show Survivor is described as a “ reality-competition ”, but it never struck me as realistic, and I...
Mar 264 min read

Drug of Choice?
Is Religion Like a Drug? | Rev | BBC Comedy Greats, via YouTube “You’ll feel that God reached out to you with his love.” “What does that...
Mar 195 min read


Pragmatic Optimism
Emo Philips, Opening for Weird Al Yankovic at the Apollo Theatre Today I learned the word “ paraprosdokian ”. According to Wikipedia, the...
Mar 125 min read


Haven
Tuwiuwok Bluff, via Haven, Maine fan wiki When I thought about the TV series Haven , I remembered vague details, and thought it must have...
Mar 54 min read


Order out of Chaos
Nine Princes in Amber, cover, via OpenLibrary.org My Dad didn’t particularly like Roger Zelazny’s work. He thought it was a bit too...
Feb 194 min read


I don't like spam!
Monty Python – Spam, via Wikipedia Even fifty years later, the influence of Monty Python is felt, as older generations reminisce and...
Feb 55 min read


Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell, 1983, via Wikipedia I’ve been hearing the song Both Sides Now since earliest childhood, but I had no idea just how many...
Jan 294 min read

Castles Made of Sand
Jimi Hendrix Castles Made of Sand is a classic, by one of the truly great musicians. If you are not familiar with it, go find it and...
Jan 225 min read


Blue Sky
Duane Allman, Fillmore East, 6-Jun-1971, via Wikimedia Commons It’s amazing what you can find if you look. All I did was search for songs...
Jan 153 min read


False Equivalence
Skeptical Science, John Cook, via Wikimedia Commons Words are fun! Today, let’s ask whether the words “equivalence” and “equivalency” are...
Jan 85 min read

Shall we play a game?
WarGames, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU I can only hear that question in the voice of the computer Joshua, from the...
Dec 18, 20244 min read

What evidence do you have of that?
Thomas Bayes (maybe), via Wikipedia The portrait above might be that of Thomas Bayes ... but probably not. Perfect! I wanted to talk...
Dec 11, 20245 min read

The First Programmer
The exception that proves the rule . We’ve all heard the phrase, but I think most people use it without understanding it or knowing where...
Nov 27, 20245 min read


AI Big Brother
Artificial Intelligence is- Hey! Come on! I haven’t even said anything yet! Ahem. As I was saying, Artificial Intelligence is a term that...
Nov 20, 20245 min read

End of an Epoch!
Let’s talk about the end of the world, shall we? Or maybe not. Fortunately, some stories of impending doom are overestimated, and some...
Nov 13, 20246 min read

Who controls the past
“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” George Orwell,...
Nov 6, 20245 min read


Orwell was an Optimist!
Contrary to the apparent belief of some in the world today, the book Nineteen Eighty-Four was not intended to be an instruction manual...
Oct 30, 20245 min read


Let’s Get Weird!
Words are weird. The word “weird” is a particularly weird word. Aside from the spelling, the way it has been used is hard to pin down,...
Oct 23, 20244 min read


Welcome to the Rage Machine!
One of my all-time favourite songs is Welcome to the Machine , by Pink Floyd. While the song appeared on the 1975 album Wish You Were...
Oct 16, 20246 min read
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