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Two Tales of Crime & Punishment: Guess Who Comes Out Looking Better – The Cops or the Librarians? (Okay, It’s the Feds Who Look Bad…As Usual)

The police often get the short end of the stick in terms of public perception but stories like this one show there are definitely good cops out there. In my line of work, it’s not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. On the flip side [...]

Posted 02 May 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Jobs § Library § Sappy § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the [...]

Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday – Bookworm Edition

50 Reasons You Should Be a Bookworm 8 Reasons You Should Sign Up For GoodReads In Re Books Wrap-up: A Presentation by Jessamyn West of librarian.net  14 Ways Public Libraries Are Good for the Country [Edit: found a few more links...] MetaFilter: The Holy Grail of Publishing Metrics - how e-book readers “read” their owners for [...]

Posted 26 March 2013 § List § PopCulture § Technology § Too Many Tabs ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – “Welcome to Literarily Drunk. I’m drunk. And I like books!”

A new vlogger combines a couple of my favourite things – books and booze – in her Literarily Drunk reviews.

Posted 22 March 2013 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

10 Things I’m Looking Forward To Now That #skndpldr Is Over

Spending time with my family – I think Pace was starting to suspect daddy had gotten married to his computer since I was spending more time with it than him and mommy the past few months! Finishing getting ready for the addition to our family – apparently we’re having a baby in two months or [...]

Posted 13 March 2013 § Family § Humour § List § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 4 – #ftrweek – Unintended FTRW Experiences (aka “Boobs, Walls & Thieves”)

During past Freedom to Read weeks, I’ve noticed that everything starts to look like a Freedom of Expression issue.  (That’s probably a good thing that we should keep in mind year-round anyhow.)  For example, we’re only halfway through the week and I’ve had three distinct experiences that weren’t official FTRW events but which brought forward [...]

Posted 27 February 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

10 Reasons I’m Supporting @ryanMeili for #skndpldr – #8 – His Book

This reason strikes particularly close to home for me. When I convocated from the U of R with a BA – English way back in 1996, I lived in great fear that I would only find work in the “French Fried Arts” as was the stereotype for Arts grads then (and probably now too…if there [...]

Posted 06 February 2013 § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Manitoba Children’s Museum

During our trip to Winnipeg last weekend, we visited the Manitoba Children’s Museum.  One of the highlights for me was seeing that every single exhibit area had picture books scattered around that tied into the theme of that exhibit – the train that you could climb on had transportation books, the exhibit that let you [...]

Posted 02 February 2013 § Canada § Family § Library § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Which Fan Theories Blew Your Mind With Their Logic?

Fan theories are alternate ideas/interpretations for movies, music, books, etc. One of the top-rated AskReddit threads of all time asked for people’s favourites.  That got responses including this one which blew my mind.  (Warning: these fan theories often will change your perspective on beloved pop culture items in a way that you’ll never be able [...]

Posted 01 February 2013 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Top 10 Things I Use As A Bookmark

A discussion on Reddit about who uses dust jacket flaps as bookmarks leads to all kinds of other related anecdotes… English Prof here: Want a great way to boost reading comprehension? Don’t use bookmarks! It’s weird and counter-intuitive, but what this does is force you to go back and quickly skim over what you read [...]

Posted 17 January 2013 § Library § List § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: