March 17, 2010
My Life is a Stereo » The Versions of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
Now that I've started down the path of research and discovery, it's hard to stop. After posting previously about Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah, I kept on looking for more versions of this song. This eventually led to the question that people are asking:where are the missing verses? Are there really fifteen (15) different verses for Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah?
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March 15, 2010
My Life is a Stereo » Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Some times I'm blown away and feel like I've been living under a rock when I listen to a different version of a song that I've heard before, and it's so blindingly clear: this is how the song is crying out to be performed. I've heard Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah before, but I'm sad to admit that I was blind to the version performed by the late Jeff Buckley until three days ago.
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March 01, 2010
Finance » Canadian Federal Debt Clock
Good news! I've located a debt clock that relays much the same information that I calculated in my blog entry on Canadian federal debt per capita. It's both depressing and fun to watch at the same time.
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February 26, 2010
My Life is a Stereo » Rattle and Hum: From Desire to Jealousy
There have been many times in my life when I was unaware of just how profound or important an event was going to be for me. It's a lot easier to look back on where you've been - hindsight is 20/20 they say. However, for a very few occasions, I've been acutely aware of the impact right in the heat of the moment. One of those moments was in February, 1989 - the day that I realised jealousy was a reflection of insecurity; they day that I accepted I was going to lose my girlfriend.
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February 03, 2010
Finance » Canada Federal Debt Per Capita
There is an interesting blog entry over at HS Dent again that talks about the proposed federal budget for the United States...
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January 29, 2010
Finance » Canada's Debt Versus GDP - Update 2010
With regards to Canada's Federal Debt, I've already hinted that Canada is going deeper into debt. Now that another year has gone by since my last look at the Summary Report from the Public Accounts of Canada, let's see how bad it is.
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Nostalgia » Skipping A Grade
A few years before my elementary school burned to the ground from an act of arson, you could have found me in the school library. It was grade one, and although the rest of my class was busy doing their math practice, I was exempt and I was told to just "go to the library and find something to read".
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January 11, 2010
Interesting Links » Emilio Morenatti
I have sent a link to a few of my friends to the work of photographer Emilio Morenatti and every single one of them has replied to thank me for the link (below), which in itself is truly rare. So Emilio's work must be as stunning to others as it is to me.
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November 26, 2009
Current Thoughts » Girl Power
This morning over breakfast, my youngest daughter (who is now 7) asked if I thought that boys were tougher than girls. I paused before answering, wondering where this was going...
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November 12, 2009
Interesting Links » Just Clean Jokes
While scouring the internet for jokes that are suitable for my nine year old daughter, I'm disappointed with how many lame joke web sites there are. I'm just looking for a web site full of good clean jokes, she's not interested in ten thousand one-liner knock knock jokes.
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November 06, 2009
Interesting Links » Little Brother
I must have been living under a rock, because although I had read the name "Cory Doctorow" online a few times in the past, I really didn't know who he was or what he was about, until I stumbled upon his book "Little Brother"....
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November 05, 2009
Finance » Canada's National Debt - We're Digging a Deeper Hole
I'm overly fascinated with Canada's National Debt, even though I feel quite powerless to affect it in any way. So I'm relegated to analysis and commentary. At least I have something to keep me entertained.
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November 04, 2009
My Life is a Stereo » You're In My Heart (and Down My Pants)
By the summer of 1992, I had been a mobile Disc Jockey for five years, and had already played music for more weddings than most people will ever go to in their lifetime. This particular night, I was on the road, playing music for a small town wedding...
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October 27, 2009
Stories from Others » The Humbug Bistro
A friend of mine Heather Spoonheim owns restaurant in a small town. At least once a week she calls me up with stories that are so incredible I'm either crying or laughing....
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September 25, 2009
Finance » Canada's So-called Expert on Finance
According to their web site, the Department of Finance "develops policies and provides advice to the Government with the goal of creating a healthy economy for all Canadians." Assuming that's true, one would then expect that the person heading up the Department of Finance would be some economic guru, some trend-recognizing wizard with a penchant for steering the country's finances away from trouble before it hits. He would make press releases full of such economic wisdom and insight that the rest of us humble Canadians would collectively sigh with joy that we have such a financially adept Minister of Finance. So let's take a look at what Minister Jim Flaherty has to say then and now...
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