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We're getting old. Our favorite musicians from the 90's are now played on the oldies stations alongside our parents music. And musicians we like are covering some of those songs as salutes to that old music. Recently, Opeth and Between the Buried and Me both have done some covers of classic hits. This is a little funny since both bands are old bands on the block, but whatever. Opeth did a cover of a song called Would? by a little known band called Alice in Chains. BATM did Jellybelly by The Smiling Polit---I mean Smashing Pumpkins. They look to be part of albums with an assortment of artists doing tributes to each band. So I assume there will be more coming out. It's kind of funny where I sit on the covers though. I've talked before about a concert I went to that had the band 3 and BATM as the openers for Opeth and Dream Theater. We got there late though and just saw Opeth and Dream Theater, the only two bands I knew. I've regretted not seeing 3 ever since I listene...

So it’s my turn to make a block again lots of ideas of what to make but I thought why not try and be like my brother over at pilot’s world and do it with my voice so far not going great hasn’t been any periods yet got common there which is all right but yeah could be better. I think there goes a period. One of the things is that I’m just using the keyboard from the Google keyboard I’m sure there Or voice to text options that cost more money, but I just want to use this free one. It’s all about accessibility for the average person. OK, I'm switching back to keyboard. The technology is miraculous but it still needs some work. I'm sure if I were to pay for one it would get a lot better. Or even if I just used it more and learnt all the ways to make it add a period and what not, but I'm just trying to get a point across. Accessibility is not always very accessible. I don't consider myself a person with a disability. I'm mostly healthy, can walk, read, listen, etc. I als...

Little bit of a later post today. I had a "training" session all morning. It was Indigenous Awareness Training, which I could argue wasn't really training, but just telling people not to be douchebags. I was a little worried that it was going to be super boring. I've been in things like this before where they are trying to whip through it really quick and generally just saying "Indigenous people need you to say sorry" but not really saying anything else. I was pleasantly surprised with this one though. The guy doing the training started the company over 20 years ago and said they basically took the Aboriginal 101 course from the University and cut it down to a 4ish hour presentation. He just talked about Indigenous history the whole time, making sure to add the stuff you didn't learn in high school. He is a Metis guy as well so we got lots of First Nations and Metis content. He mentioned Inuit, but by his own admission didn't know much about them and...

August 3th. The ol' Saskatchewan day. Any reason to take a paid day off gets a thumbs up from me. It may come as a surprise to my primary reader and brother, that I was born and raised in Saskatchewan. I've lived here all my life (aside from a month in BC that hardly counts) and I can't see myself leaving. Not that it isn't without it's problems. I've seen ads to come work in Ireland or become a teacher in New Zealand and yeah, that's tempting. I've got family here though and I doubt the jobs would pay enough for me to come back and visit much. I know my niche in Saskatchewan pretty well though and am more or less happy in it. I never even thought I'd move north of Regina, but here I am. There's always plenty to see around here, if you want to look. Forests, hills, flat areas, lakes, rivers, deserts. Everything but the mountains. And oceans. and probably other things I can't think of right now. More outdoorsy stuff to do than I'd ever be ...

I've written a bunch about frustrating people and things a lot since coming back to blogging, alongside the worst monster in history, Pilot . It's hard not to. Our society and government works on calling out and punishing people who do bad things. Now, maybe that's a bad way to run humanity, just as it's a bad way to train a dog, but that is a discussion for another time. It's got me thinking about the good that's out there as well. I play a lot of video games, as you may have heard. I enjoy all sorts, but some of my favorites are large, open world games like Fallout or Skyrim. Games where you can go anywhere and be whoever you want to be. Want to have an evil playthrough? Go for it. And good luck with that. Every time I try an evil playthrough of a game, I've failed. I just end up feeling bad. My real life morals come to haunt my in game world. Of course, this doesn't stop me from murdering any random person that the game marks as "enemy", but...

Sony recently announced that they will be discontinuing physical games and will move to an only digital model in the future. They announced this the same week they announced that some movies they had sold through the store would no longer be accessible to people who purchased them and existing downloads would also be removed. So, despite saying people bought these, it was just a long rental. Flash over to one AI CEO (I can't remember which one) saying that humans no longer have privacy and people need to get over it and you have a situation where corporations own everything you think is yours. At least the courts have decided that farmers can repair their tractors. I've long said I don't really care TOO much if my genetic data is released with a bunch of others or any other private information because it's usually mixed in with enough that doing anything to me specifically is difficult. Yeah, certain things can be done to me using the bulk info but it's rare (less r...

In my thirty-eight years of life, I have seen an incredible rate of technological advances. I don't know if computers are actually easier to use these days, but they are definitely more impressive and powerful. From the old Tandy to the newest MacBook, a 10" floppy to a smart phone. The rate of advancement can be mind boggling. One thing I've always kept up with is music media. I'm a music lover and the first music I listened to was Queen on vinyl and Garth Brooks on tape. It then moved to CD's, then an mp3 player than held ten songs, then the iPod and now anything that can stream. I wouldn't be surprised if I had a song on a 3.5" floppy disc, if they fit. One thing that the move to digital services has is that the album art and such is now tied to the song itself. It's a pit of a lost medium to have to make an album booklet and you don't get to read the lyrics or see what art the band decided to put in, but the main album art is still attached to ...