{"id":434,"date":"2012-01-11T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:31:16","slug":"memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We usually have CBC Radio 2 on in the background at home (a sign of impending old fogeydom?). Saturday evening, they played a set of jazzy covers of non-jazzy songs, including &#8220;50 Ways to Leave Your Lover&#8221; done by Sophie Milman. It got me and Sweet talking about a website that we both loved back in the day that closed up shop in 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021120033445\/http:\/\/www.brunching.com\/\">Brunching Shuttlecocks<\/a> made me laugh every week, but alas, it&#8217;s gone. They did movie reviews, Flash animation bits, silly things like the &#8220;Alanis Morrisette Lyric Generator&#8221; (yes, the site was that old&#8230;) and my favourite, Ratings. To taste what the Intertubes have lost, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021015135102\/http:\/\/www.brunching.com\/waystoleave.html\">here is Brunching&#8217;s rating of the ways to leave your lover<\/a>, as per the song (thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/index.php\">Internet Archive<\/a>, for existing!). Most of the interactive stuff doesn&#8217;t work, but I&#8217;ve had a nostalgic giggle or two going through the ratings again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now, for Dan&#8217;s sake: Really, Really Big Tires! I tried to get the Really, Really Big IKEA behind them, but I had to take the shot I could as traffic only stopped for a moment, but you can kind of see it in the background&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Eet's so big! by bojnberry, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/6659242005\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7145\/6659242005_6da839806e.jpg\" alt=\"Eet's so big!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=434\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually have CBC Radio 2 on in the background at home (a sign of impending old fogeydom?). 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