Are Blogs Coming Back In Fashion?
I noticed that Canada’s top blogger is again adding content to their blog. Is this a trend, will blogs come back into style as people sour on Meta/Facebook and ExTwitter?
John Klein
SaskPower Needs Changing
Chris Gingras Q: “estimate to provide 1,500 MW of battery storage” as a quarter of what Saskatchewan needs. A: We can buy 25,000, 60kWh battery cars, for half a billion…
GenAI Sucks Power and Water
Most people would not be surprised to learn that computer data centres need a lot of electricity and water for cooling. “The federal government, and some provinces, have been actively…
Clumsy Carney Comment Confounding
Was the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran worth it Carney? Was a blockade of the world’s oil worth it? What was the gain other than high gas prices?…
The Mavericks’ Raul
Raul ruled! He passed away in December. He was only 60 years old. I remember listening to The Mavericks on the radio, and on CD in the living room juggling…
Crossing the USA in Helicopter
A fun tour of some of the USA and they fly over Canada for a little bit in the middle also.
Danger Zone
A little extreme format shifting. From Vinyl, to VHS via a camcorder and mono auxiliary cable and jack size adapter, and then a VCR-TV combo to screener from an Android…
Colbert’s Late Show Is Ending On Thursday
Three interesting and funny Colbert videos in the wind-up week. Colbert describes how he met Jon Stewart, and it’s funny. Such a shame that this TV studio may not go…
Why Do the Sask NDP Sound Like Grant Devine?
W5 showing a now 44 year old clip of Grant Devine, and he said, “The first order in council, the first thing we ever do, you just line up at…
Saskatchewan Planning To Fail
The Sask Party and NDP have presented similar and disastrous plans for the electrical grid. There are details about what the Sask Party would have Sask Power do, in this…
Saskatchewan NDP Turmoil
On Tuesday, the Sask NDP lost one of their MLAs. She’s sitting as an independent MLA, after leader Carla Beck cracked the whip. Jennifer Bowes spoke out on Facebook with…
WHY HIGHWAYS AND ROADS SUCK NOW
My understanding for why we don’t fill potholes is because municipal governments permit developers to build on greenfields, extending a city’s existing infrastructure past reasonable distances for transit, policing, firefighting,…
Carney Cuts Canada Post
Nora explains how little Canada Post actually costs us, and what’s at stake when Carney Conservatives take it away from us: ” Dismantling Canada Post for parts Nora Loreto Apr…
Plague Update: How Do We Know It’s Not Over? Not Yet A Memorial Holiday
If people who say the pandemic is over actually believed that, wouldn’t they observe a month of Remembrance for the millions of people lost “during COVID”? Either they are monsters…
Civilization Dying
I’ve been tinkering with a cassette tape player. It was without a power cord. I found a compatible cord in the garage, and learned the player is not working. I…
Clearing The Air In Saskatchewan Schools
It’s likely all of the existing schools, and even the new ones are operating illegally* anyway with the presence of a BSL3 pathogen. And the relatively new Douglas Park School…
Air Quality Reports Remain Wrong in Saskatchewan
Last year I asked what I thought was a rhetorical question, but it turns out that MP Kram’s office has responded to my concern. The problem remains a year later,…
New Nuclear Costs Too Much
The Sask Government wants SaskPower to build nuclear reactors for 2035.Currently Saskatchewan has about 5GW of electricity generation.Take a look at what Bladeofthesun says about British nuclear power ambitions, in…
Roshan Gopal Krishnan Menon – Count Roshculla
I noticed it had been a long time since I’d seen something from my blogger friend Roshan, and looked him up on Facebook only to find that he’d passed away…
129 Year Old Lost Film Found
The earliest example of a film featuring a robot was found in a library. It’s a bit degraded at the very end, but it’s a short film, and appears to…