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Cup and Saucer Trail Run
The Cup and Saucer Trail is an absolutely beautiful place to hike on Manitoulin Island and one of the most popular trails in the province. There are 12 km of hiking trails through the hardwood bush, as well as 2 km of adventure trails. As you can see from the sign, there are some huge…
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Chasing September – How Far We’ve Come
Look back, what was around that bend? How far have we come? Now’s a good time to explore those questions with another edition of Chasing Content. Read all of the posts from last September or just these extra special ones. Scrabble is Always Super My wife bought me Super Scrabble for Christmas and I not exactly sure…
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The Beatbox Edition of Mastermind Street Jam
Here’s a special beatbox edition of The Mastermind Street Jam that features tracks from . . . Biz Markie, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ft Ready C, BDP, Skinny Boys, Fat Boys, Stestasonic, and more! Also new music by Busta Rhymes, remixes from Erick Sermon and LL Cool J. (well, it was new…
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The Best TV Shows of All-Time
My list of favourite T.V. shows hasn’t changed much since I first wrote it over ten years ago. I started out with a Top 5 List but had to revise it when a new show won me over. Well, it has happened again. This show just narrowly missed being in my Top 5. I am starting to…
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M’Chigeeng Trail
The M’Chigeeng Hiking Trail is located on First Nations’ land on Manitoulin Island. The trail starts off rather rocky and runs uphill for quite some time. The run was worth it just for this beautiful rocky terrain. But it gets even nicer at the top. The trail markers are easy to follow all the way…
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Mastermind Street Jam – Tape 26 (Nov ’95)
A live hip-hop mixshow on commercial radio that played real hip-hop? In the 1990s? From Canada? If you don’t know, now you know! This show broke new records and helped me grow my cassette and CD collection. DJ Mastermind spun some of the best hip-hop records ever made on this show. I have digitized my…
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Bridal Veil Falls
Bridal Veil Falls is located in a small village on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. I spent some time on the island last week and wanted to find a few interesting places to run. This definitely fit the bill. Here you can see the Kagawong River which flows from Lake Kagawong to the North Channel of…
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A Fake Sense of Urgency
We are constantly bombarded with information. We get text messages, social media alerts, and emails that we feel need to be attended to. It’s hard to ignore a ringing phone or beeping alert. Our devices can seem to hold us prisoner. We are at their beck and call. But is this a good thing? In…
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Mastermind Street Jam (Tape 25)
The Mastermind Street Jam was broadcast every week on Energy 108 (107.9fm) and it served the Hamilton and Toronto, ON. Canada area and beyond. Here’s an episode that I taped off the radio back in 1995. It features classic hip-hop jams that were brand new at the time. This was one of the freshest hip-hop…
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One Man Can Summon the Future and Change the World
Star Trek: Mirror Universe – The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack One of the best episodes of the classic television series Star Trek was “Mirror Mirror.” In it, Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura inadvertently trade places with their counterparts in a parallel dimension. Many things are the same aboard this version of…