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Monthly Archives July 2014

Throwback Thursday – Weeding #tbt

A couple thoughts on a massive fiction weeding project I did at Southeast Regional Library… I’m sure this weeding project was literally the moment that I went from believing “All books are precious tomes of knowledge that should be preserved at all costs” to “Well, I guess if we’re buying new books all the time, we […]

¶ Posted 31 July 2014 § Humour § Library § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, saskatchewan

How “Fifty Shades of Grey” Became a Bestseller and Hollywood Movie

In a thread where a poster is trying to show that “Fifty Shades of Grey” is not representative of the BSDM community like so many people think it is, a person who was part of the Twilight fan fiction community when the original version was written chimes in with a great explanation of how badly […]

¶ Posted 30 July 2014 § Library § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, language

Shea and I have been married for over a decade…

… I thought this long- unopened tub in the basement needed updating! 😉

¶ Posted 29 July 2014 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “If you aren’t real/Then all my prayers aren’t worth a cent/That would mean I can just make up/What my purpose in life is”

Atheistic rap songs? Yes, please… “Ill Mind of Hopsin 7” – Hopsin

¶ Posted 28 July 2014 § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, music, philosophy

Journey to the Grey Cup

A TSN documentary about the Roughriders journey to the 2013 Grey Cup.

¶ Posted 27 July 2014 § Saskatchewan § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Ca$h Money

Pace looked rather “gangsta” on the way to the bank to deposit a bunch of money we’d accumulated as people paid us for fishing trips, birthday gifts, garage sale items and a few other things recently.

¶ Posted 26 July 2014 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, economics

Friday Fun Link – How A Password Changed My Life

Inspiring way to reinforce messages you want to communicate to yourself.

¶ Posted 25 July 2014 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Throwback Thursday – RPL Outreach Unit “Book Club for the Blind & Visually Impaired”

It was a highlight of my young career as a librarian to get to spend a year and a half working in RPL’s Outreach Unit serving visually impaired, homebound, and other special needs patrons across Regina. Here’s a pic I snapped when our monthly book club (the group listened to audio books but otherwise operated […]

¶ Posted 24 July 2014 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Things You Don’t Want To See When You Take Your Kids To The Splash Park

5. Your son saying “Hey dad, try to keep this bottle standing up!” then looking over to see he’s left his bottle of root beer standing precariously on the edge of the picnic blanket without a lid. (Needless to say, it didn’t stay standing up.) 4. Your daughter wandering into the running water of the various […]

¶ Posted 23 July 2014 § Family § Humour § List § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Sure, Let’s Just Close The Libraries and Get Everyone A “Kindle Unlimited” Subscription

I’m seeing lots of discussion (and some hand-wringing) about the threat to libraries after Amazon announces the “Kindle Unlimited” plan which gives you access to 600,000 e-books plus thousands of audiobooks for a Netflix-like $9.99/month subscription. Librarians and other defenders of open access and the public library were quick to respond: I mean, if this […]