httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fgfetA4Qo

While it’s cool to watch because, well, it’s a base jumping video… and when is that not cool? It’s not as exciting as it could be. Quite obviously a sanctioned publicity jump by Red Bull with Whistler Blackcomb’s full permission. Is it going to go ‘viral’? Well, I’m writing about it. Will it be a “social media success”? Doubtful. Because it’s not authentic. No one else could repeat it.

What would have been cooler, though, would be to see someone manage to do it on the sly. Like this:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0iSJQLfJ4

And while the Marc Ecko Air Force One tagging event is a fake… it received at least a million views and has been reposted and reposted to YouTube too many times to find all the versions out there.

Photo: SharkeyinColo on Flickr

This week was much better than last. While I’ve been down and out with a cold, winter season started and I got a chance to get out on my Snowboard last weekend, so that’s always a nice start to my week. Here are my fun finds for the week:

Monica Hamburg  on twitter put me on to Not Hired – “dedicated to all those who wonder why no one has called to set up an interview…” – some good stuff on there! Sort of like True Office Confessions, but for HR professionals to dish on the worst applicants or least-promotable.

I saw this ad for Helzberg Diamonds while watching Superbikes with big-man on Sunday. So funny to see how targeted ads are on different shows and networks:

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My favourite FAIL from failblog in recent history:

Nice.

And, um, thanks to the guys at Highly Obsessed, I stumbled upon this bit of i-dunno-what-to-call-it… I’m not sure what the boys over at DC are up to, but this strange commercial (?) featuring Devun Walsh and Iikka Backstrom is entirely too weird for me. I’m not the target market, clearly. Not even a little.

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Oh yeah, and the folks over at the Student Doctor Network sure get some funny stories to share on a forum. Awesome.

In the spirit of the festive season of non-denominational holiday celebrations I bring you a little icanhascheezburger…

And absolutely last, but certainly not least, I was just browsing twitter before going to bed and happend upon what is suddenly my favourite tweet of the week from @unclespeedo.

While they’re off galavanting around the lake, the woods and the water slides, I get a weekend to relax and recharge my mommy batteries.

Today is Friday evening and I have enjoyed sitting to watch the evening news while eating take-out sushi (the sushi isn’t unusual, but the news is – big-man can’t stand watching anything to do with what’s going on outside our apartment… I have yet to figure out why that is). I have also completely cleaned up and re-arranged mini-man’s room, gotten rid of a garbage bag full of my old clothes, cleaned and moved a few large toys that I’ll take to a friend this weekend, and listened to Hillsong United with Brooke Fraser singing Hosanna over and over again:

Tomorrow I plan to sleep in until at least 6am and then do whatever I want for the rest of the weekend

Here I thought I was going to be well ahead of the game with plans to get mini-man a drum kit for Christmas this year… he’ll be almost 3 by then. Maybe I should have got it last Christmas, I don’t know.

I’m amazed at how quickly kids pick stuff up if you only take the time to nurture their curiosities.

Anyway… now I find myself with far too much stuff in my head to even pick something to write coherently about. It’s all just ramblings of a crazy woman at this point. What’s the use? Tomorrow is a very exciting day. I can’t share the details with the world, but it’s something very interesting and maybe I’ll be blessed with a fantastic story to share when all is said and done.

This weekend I’m in the team leading worship at my church. I absolutely love it. I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than singing with this team of people. I absolutely love them, and I love singing praises to God. I am so grateful for everything I have in my life… my family and my home, my friends and my church, my job and some disposable income for extras… that is golden. Absolutely golden. Sometimes I think we can have a tendency to forget that not everyone has that. In the rat race to the top of the corporate ladder it’s really special when you find something you love doing with people around you that you love hanging out with every day. I’m really blessed to have that.

Anyway… life may be just about to take a very interesting turn. On that note, I’ll just share one of my favourite songs these days – “Remember Me” by Mark Schultz. Someone put a little slide show video to it… it’s nice.

I think it’s dangerous to be too strict with parenting.