Episode 34

34. Holiday Traditions from Canada to Finland

Whether you are hiding frozen cherries in couch cushions or singing at the top of your lungs there’s so many ways we make ourselves comfortable. I love this time of year even if it means long nights and cold temperatures here in the northern latitudes. Regardless of how religious you are I love the idea that there’s a season where we acknowledge the value of the people in our life with gifts and food.

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On today’s episode we have the following folks:Friends from St. John’s, Newfoundland: Marc and Angie, Andrew Smith, Andrew Draskoy, Aaron, Rohith, and Colette

Friends from HeyOrca: Jesse, Steph, JP, Steve, Peter, Joe, and Farhan

Friends from OpenOcean: Tony, Toby, Raoul, Ralf, Patrik, and Mirva

This entire episode is the brainchild of my fabulous partner Suvi.

To all my friends and family: I wish you a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, no matter where you are and what you celebrate.

Thank you for being with me on 34 episodes of Tales under the cat tree. I didn’t think I would make it all the way to a special Christmas episode. I hope you have enjoyed the episodes I have done. If you have, please take the time to subscribe, or better yet, please share the episode so I can grow my listenership.

I will return with a special New Year’s day episode and will be back to whatever is “normal” for this podcast on January 12.

Today’s episode featured the following pieces of music either in the public domain or under the Creative Commons license. No changes have been made to the compositions or performances beyond mixing in the podcast.

* "Christmas Prelude" performed by the Concert Band of the United States Air Force Band of Mid-America — License: Public Domain

* "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (for jazz piano) performed by the Diplomats of the United States Air Force Band — License: Public Domain

* El Noi de la Mare, a Catalan folk song on guitar. — License: Creative Commons

* Heinrich Lichner: Fantasia of Silent Night, Holy Night — License: Creative Commons 2.0

* Christmas music for Orchestra and choir MaxNegro — License: Creative Commons

All other music composed and performed by Duleepa Wijayawardhana.



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Hosted by tech leader and storyteller Duleepa Wijayawardhana, this podcast explores the intersections of technology, fiction, and human adventure. Words create the worlds we live in—join us for weekly conversations that spark your imagination.

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Duleepa Wijayawardhana

It started with late nights, glue sticks, and a university newspaper / radio.

That early obsession with how words reach people took me from student journalism to a career spanning the globe. I’ve gone from designing newspapers and having radio shows to building systems at BioWare (yes, the RPG legends), managing data at MySQL, and now leading tech at Supermetrics in Helsinki.

But at my core, I’m still that geek who believes writing is just code for the human mind.

While a computer chip executes code exactly, your imagination runs stories based on your own unique wiring. Tales under the cat tree is where we run those programs together. Whether we're exploring the fiction that inspires us or the tech that defines us, my goal is to spark your imagination and—most importantly—never make you go "meh."

Words create the worlds we live in. Let's explore them.