Episode 136 - Ismism

It's getting close to Halloween, though, this is not a scary episode.  Look, maybe it is, I'm writing this before we go out.

I dunno, maybe we talked about emails or something.

OK, we did get a pumpkin, and candy of course, who knows how many kids will come over, I honestly don't know, it varies so much year to year.  We have enough candy for 90, which ought to be enough.

We wondered whatever happened to UNICEF boxes at Halloween in Canada, it turns out that collecting for UNICEF at Halloween in the US is still a thing, but now in Canada it isn't.  We both have fond memories of collecting money for kids from afar.

We then got into what may be our oddest discussion ever.  We listed every 'ism' you could think of (though I think we missed 'fascism' oddly).  

Episode 135 - Colder

You know, it is cold today.  In a month this will seem warm, but 2C seems pretty cold today.  Indeed, our car claimed it was 18, but eventually the car figured things out.

Isabelle and I both had weird dreams last night, and we shared them, I think mine is more disturbing....

Isabelle did a workshop on using an app called Pixlr to make cool art.  I'm really impressed with the work she has done with it.  

Are you as tired as I am of people adding unnecessary padding to videos and blog posts?  Let's do something about it.  What?  I have no idea......

Isabelle saw a movie that sounded like it came from her life.  I have to agree, it sounded pretty close to how she described her life as a teenager.

Zebras and cows, their saga continues.  Before Isabelle got into the art scene I had no idea how people created paintings, I'm learning a lot.

Episode 134 - Echo Chambers

Well it has been a somewhat eventful reading week.  I went to Toronto for 24 hours for a series of meetings at the Council of Ontario Universities, and then we went to see a band last night.  Yup, we actually went out!

The band we saw was 'Whitehorse'.  They were pretty good.  They reminded Isabelle of The Handsome Family (of True Detective Season 1 fame) and last night in the car when she said that I was happy as the whole time they were playing I was thinking 'they remind me of someone.....'

We then talked about the end of the fall break and what students get out of university.  A lot of times they don't even know what skills they do get, which oddly was one of the themes of the meeting I was at in Toronto.

Finally, we talked about how people get the news and the effects of social media.