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Monthly Archives April 2012

Music Monday – “When all is said and done/We’re not the first to be here/There’s nothing new underneath the sun.”

A co-worker told me about this really cool Nashville-based, jazz-funk band called “Here Come The Mummies” who apparently play in costume to hide the fact that they’re all under contract to different labels as session musicians…

Posted 30 April 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Ten Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

This not a metaphor (okay, maybe the last one.) (via MetaFilter)

Posted 29 April 2012 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – 2012 Sask Book Awards

Sorry this photo is a bit blurry but it’s a shot of the prize table before the Sask Book Awards Gala last night. I attended as a volunteer and had a blast as always.  My main duty was sitting at the nominee registration table so it felt like “old home week” as I got to [...]

Posted 28 April 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Ranking The King

Vulture magazine ranks the best Stephen King works from 62 to 1.  I’ve read a lot of Stephen King but not much of the recent stuff.   But King will always have a soft spot in my heart because of how many of my non-reader friends would still devour everything he wrote. My only quibble [...]

Posted 27 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Fred Tabs Update

I’ve had a few worried e-mails from people who saw that the page with my collection of Fred Eaglesmith tabs has disappeared. The reason is that I have begun the process of transferring my old blog to a new host.  As part of that process, the sub-content of my old site which was hosted on [...]

Posted 26 April 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Bucket List for Kids: 50 Things To Do Before They’re 12

By my count, Pace has only done 15 of the 50 things on this list.  Of course, he’s not even 5 yet (next month!) so he’s got lots of time to finish off this list!  And if the rocks hadn’t been so slippery when I was carrying him and/or if he was a slightly stronger swimmer, [...]

Posted 25 April 2012 § Family § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Top Ten Dying/Booming Industries

Unfortunately, a lot of the Top 10 dying industries have a direct connection to libraries whether it’s DVD’s, newspapers or recordable media.  On the other hand, a lot of the Top 10 booming industries don’t – unless libraries want to start building solar panels or hot sauces (!).

Posted 24 April 2012 § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”

I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio.  Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song!  (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”

Posted 23 April 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once every [...]

Posted 22 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sappy § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Puddle Jumping

Like last week, another photo of Pace having fun with a friend – this time his cousin Dennon.

Posted 21 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °