Don’t be fooled by pop-culture, there’s more to HipHop than bling and scantily-clad ladies.
Here’s ‘peg-city rapper John Smith with his track Kinship of the Down and Out, from the album Pinky’s Laundromat.
(Sam, your street gets a shout-out.)
Related: All Peanuts and Corn music videos on YouTube.
Personal Fav: John Smith’s Climb Everything, an homage to urban exploration in Winnipeg.
Explore your city yo!
found @ xkcd.
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I noticed this object nailed inside our front doorway when we first moved in. I soon forgot it as we don’t often use that door. It caught my eye again this past weekend, so I decided to query the collective conciousness.
Eight minutes later I had my answer:
It’s a Mezuzah, a Jewish house blessing and sign of devotion to God. Mezuzot contain small parchments inscribed with two sections from the Torah’s Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13-21).
The symbol at the top of the object is the letter Shin, which stands for “Shaddai,” one of the Hebrew names of God. The letter Shin was also the inspiration for Spock’s Vulcan salute on the original Star Trek.
Thanks again AskMeFi.
Live long and prosper. ;)
An interesting aside:
This picture is now my most viewed image on Flickr with over 1600 views.
Over the weekend we explored the urban forest South-West of our home. On Saturday morning I brought Soda there for some off-leash fun, and we returned with Shan on Sunday.
The forest is triangle shaped, with an estimated area of over 100,000 meters squared (or .1km2), and is composed of tall prairie grasses, dense forest (mainly Trembling Aspen with some Bur Oak), and (presently dry) wetland. It sits on what I believe to be CN land, south of Taylor Ave.
I discovered this forest during a Glutton University field trip in 2003. It remains my favourite secret forest in Winnipeg. It appears that I’m not alone; after following some human tracks we spied a campground, their tent fire red, camouflaged by the afternoon sunlight.
Hopefully this land is never sold for development.
