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Featured Postings  Eldred, Saskatchewan on the map ... barelyI've written about obscure Saskatchewan communities before. Here is another community far to the north of Unity. My ancestors from France settled here. Many of my ancestors were pioneers that broke new farming ground nearest to a community called Eldred, Saskatchewan. Eldred was about 10 km ... Fortune Cookies for Human RightsYou know, I was minding my own business in this classy Chinese restaurant, engorging myself on their copious buffet, had my fill, and was handed the bill with an accompanying fortune cookie. This fortune cookie (the one to the left) really existed, and I never saw ... Getting f(x) notation to work in MapleMaple is a robust math environment which can graph, solve equations, and solve for the unknown with the aid of its computer algebra solver (CAS), which is capable of computing exact roots of cubic functions, for example. I wanted to demonstrate for myself that Maple could ... Kudos to the 1050 CHUM Memorial BlogRecently, I've been hit (my website that is) by someone possibly checking his plethora of links from his/her website, and when I back-traced it, I find this cool blog which acts as a convincing historical shrine to the late great 1050 CHUM Radio in Toronto. ... The Obfuscation of Electronics: The Behringer Xenyx 502This is more like a meta-review. I have gone to Canada Computes where nearly the entire Behringer line is sold, and was impressed by the specs. But does it do what I want, the way I want it? I face a number of obstacles, being a ...
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Tweet Lloyd Robertson (OOC 1998) — He was six years an anchor for CBC news in the early to mid-seventies. He later moved to CTV, and had been anchor there until 2011 when he retired. He has been news anchor longer than Walter Cronkite, and is in fact the record holder for the longest-serving anchorman in […] […] Go to article Recognizable OOC Recipients 05: News anchors  Tweet Here is a link to the start of this series if you haven’t read it yet. Lauren Bacall (12 Aug). She appeared in several movies alongside Humphrey Bogart. She was 89. Oscar de la Renta (20 Oct). Fashion designer, dead at 82. Dr. Ronald Colapinto (3 Jan). Toronto surgeon best known for developing an intervention which spared many […] […] Go to article In Memoriam – Part 2 Tweet Well, this post may well need to be broken up into a few parts due to the number of people I had heard about who had passed away this year. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Phil Everly (Jan 3), one half of the influential vocal duo The […] […] Go to article In Memoriam 2014 – Part 1 |
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