The Globe and Mail has put out a grammar quiz. Apparently it’s the third annual, but this is the first time I can recall having seen it. I did ok. I scored 12 out of 16 which according to them is a well done, but I’m going to go ahead and be mad at myself …
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Pick Of The Litter: A Fun Little Movie About Guide Dogs
I’ve been meaning to write about this movie, but I wanted to see it first. Now I have, so here I go. It’s a documentary about GDB, the school that trained Trix and Tansy, and it’s called Pick of the Litter. It’s the story of five guide dog puppies, and the process they move through …
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Fake News! Or Is It?
Randy Cassingham, A.K.A. the This is True guy, has a game for us to play. Can you tell real news stories from ones that are totally made up? I have no idea why this might be important. I got three out of five, but it should have been four. One I got wrong because it …
The Donald Trump Insult Match Game!
Let’s play a game. Remember back in January which feels like years ago because everything that didn’t happen within the last five or ten minutes feels like years ago when Donald Trump called a bunch of countries shitholes? That, obviously, was not the first or last time he’s gone out of his way to insult …
Get To Know Your Friends…A Little Too Well
Let me try and explain the soundtrack. Years ago, my parents got their computers full of nasty viruses and malware, and they were receiving tons of spam. I was trying to figure out how things got so bad, and mom said that one day a pop-up came up asking her to click on the flying …
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Would You Rather…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E We’re going to do this Gill thing a little differently today. She sent in a bunch of odd scenarios under the subject “Which would you rather?”, so I’m going to try to decide. Let’s see how this goes. Would you rather be eaten by a shark, or forced to watch the movie Jaws every …
Stay In And Play This Maclean’s Trivia Game Because It Beats Being Outside Where It’s Windy And Grey
I haven’t done one of these in a while, and when I do I like to post them so that everyone can play along and show how much smarter than me they are. So have at this Maclean’s quiz. Their resident genius, Peter Dyakowski, got himself a more than respectable 80% on the 30 questions. …
Can You Tell Your Lossless Audio Ass From A Low Bitrate Hole In The Ground?
I listen to a lot of music and at various points in my life have spent time in recording studios and on the radio, so I have at least a decent sense of the differences between quality and garbage audio. I’ve also read and heard a small but vocal number of people bitching about how …
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The Last Name Game
I haven’t posted in forever, and I need to fix that. So why don’t I start off by posting a silly little game that I stole from someone’s Facebook page? Every answer must start with the first letter of your last name! Last Name : Headrick An animal: horse A boys name: Henry A girls …
What else starts with G L O?
Man I love Twitter. I just stumbled across this. https://soundcloud.com/npraskmeanother/day-1-blaze-of-gloria Jonathan Coulton is a funny, talented guy. Kinda a fun game to play. I wonder if I could come up with more. I doubt it.
