Coffee Talk with Vic Dubois
Brian Wilson's Country Album
Coffeetalk airs on two radio stations, CJWW AM and 98Cool FM, the first plays Country music and the second Classic pop hits. Normally I wouldn't talk about an artist that is one or the other but I have a reason to talk about one of the founding members of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson. Classic Hits and Oldies fans ...
May 17, 2024
May 15, 2024
One of our employees asked me when and what was the very first Coffeetalk. I said the late 1990's but couldn't recall the exact date or subject. Now our Office Manager doesn't throw many things away and she found a box with the early Coffeetalks. The first one went, "Vic Dubois has definitely won from $1 million...
May 15, 2024
May 13, 2024
I shouldn't bring this up on a Monday, the first day of the traditional work week. I know not as many work Monday to Friday anymore. There still are early morning and late afternoon rush hours in the city when traffic is heaviest but there's never really a slow time in the day for city traffic like in the old days. ...
May 13, 2024
May 10, 2024
I was thinking back to those days of yesteryear when we didn't have a home computer or "smart" cell phone and the letter carrier dropped our daily mail into the mailbox beside the front door that we looked into at the end of the workday to see what had come in the mail that appeared worth reading (I've always...
May 10, 2024
May 8, 2024
Is politics the art or science of winning and holding control over a government? Is it the competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership? Is it the activities associated with governance, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve ...
May 08, 2024
dumb phone
The prefix "pre" means before and "post" means after. To put them together would be preposterous. Take the words "new" and "retro", put them together and what do you get: "Newtro" meaning modernized retro. Its beginnings can be traced back to 2018 in South Korea wher...
May 06, 2024
most valuable public companies
Look at the world's most valuable public companies based on market capitalization, meaning the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares. Number 1 is Microsoft, with a market cap of just over $3 Trillion U.S. It has the Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft 365 applications, Edge web browse...
May 03, 2024
Amphicars
Today we are going to talk about Schwimmwagons, autos die auf dem Wasser fahren, cars that drive on water, Amphicars. I've never seen one myself except in movies, for example Inspector Clouseau back in 1968. Amphicars were also featured in a few other movies and an episode of the Simpsons. These amphibious automob...
May 01, 2024
protests
As they say on CNN: Breaking News....Student unrest and demonstrations at Columbia University as well as others. What year is this? OK, I know it's 2024 but it could be 1968. In the spring that year protests erupted after students at Columbia discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatu...
Apr 29, 2024
Wolf Cub and Scout
We normally take our bottles and cans to Sarcan after we've managed to fill a few bags. The other day the doorbell rang and when I opened it there was a young Scout standing there resplendent in uniform along with his dad collecting, you guessed it, bottles and cans. So, I opened up the garage and gave them what I had...
Apr 26, 2024
Parti Quebecois
I read an article the other day that took my mind back. It had to do with Quebec and the separatist Parti Quebecois. Yes, it's still around hoping to someday regain power in La Belle province so it can get back to work convincing Quebecers to split from Canada. In the 2022 provincial election the PQ suffered its wor...
Apr 24, 2024
Earth Day
April 22nd, Earth Day, is an annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. This year's theme is "Planet versus Plastics". Earth Day was first held in 1970, 54 years ago. The theme that first year was "Give Earth A Chance". Here we are more than 5 decades later and what are...
Apr 22, 2024
g,o,l,f
Our friendly neighbourhood golf courses are getting ready for another season of g,o,l,f which stands for growing old and living fine, or whatever words you can attach to the letters that make any sense. Golf is after all a four- letter word. I take comfort knowing there must be thousands of people who are worse golfer...
Apr 19, 2024
Budgets
How many of us have personal household budgets that we faithfully stick to? How many governments have budgets that they faithfully stick to (cue the laugh track). By provincial decree, Saskatoon is not allowed to run a deficit. The province doesn't apply the same rule to itself, however. And the federal government ...
Apr 17, 2024
perceived meaning of words
Coffeetalk, Monday April 15.....2002. You heard me right. April 15 22 years ago today was also a Monday. I talked about computer terminology which held a different meaning for baby boomers and beyond. For example, take mouse, which is a four-legged rodent, and a mouse pad is where the mouse lived. A byte was what ...
Apr 15, 2024