Monthly Archives July 2006

Course Selection – Fall Term

Finally got around to doing my course selection for next term.  Here are my rankings for the five classes I want to take plus the couple extras that they make you pick as options in case you don't get into something.  I did end up sending around a proposal for another independent study to a […]

Things Making Me Happy

– “Alberta Bound” by Gordon Lightfoot just came on the folk roots station I'm listening too.  – As Linda said in her comments for the last entry, the coffee house was a blast and everybody who got up did an awesome job.  I gotta give Classmate of the Day to the storytellers though (Meg, Becky, […]

Random Thoughts For A Random Age

Heading to the Student Council's “Talent Show” Coffee House soon.  I'm signed up to read some poetry which is guaranteed to be more “show” than “talent”.  Here's a sample of one poem (2.3 MB mp3) I'll be reading.  The recording is from the 2003 Calgary Stroll of Poets – sorry about the poor sound quality.  […]

Cantilever Lives?

[2007-05-06 – Wanted to add an update to mention that the paper I link to in the second paragraph of this post (not counting this added part in italics of course) won first runner-up in the 2007 CLA Student Writing contest.  The posted version of the paper is the one I handed in for class […]

Five Posts In A Day…

…is that a record?  (Er, I guess you can make that six.)

A Big-time Freedom of Expression Issue (mixed with politics, history, psychology, philosophy and more)

(Warning: I don't normally do warnings but if you're particularly sensitive you might not want to read this entry.  Or read the first paragraph and see if that's enough to give you the willies.  It even bugs me a bit and I'm the guy writing it.) MetaFilter has a massive debate going after someone linked […]

Why The Headache Is Worth It…Sometimes

See below for some photos from my adventures on Tuesday night.  I also added one from Wednesday's karaoke session to the “Librarian Idol” entry.  The photo I added is sort of bittersweet – Shea has our digital camera in Saskatchewan so I dug out my old film camera to take with me to karaoke.  It […]

Canadian Audio Visual Trust

I can't just post even a little blurb I find without having a mini-rant attached (but what else are blogs for?) so here goes… Wouldn't it be nice if we had a place to disseminate information like this to the entire program?  Yes, we have a mailing list that goes to all students and faculty […]

Friday Fun Link – Librarian Masturbator Caught By Journalist Masturbator (July 28, 2006)

This is about as “fun” as the Friday Fun Links get… Carl Monday, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Cleveland recently did an extremely sensationalistic sweeps-week sting operation (link to video clip) where he used a hidden camera to catch a twenty-something man masturbating at the local public library on a public access […]

Librarian Idol

Went to the Librarians Without Borders karaoke fundraiser tonight and other than a broken air conditioning system at the venue, it was a very fun (and very sweaty) night.  LWB invited the students in journalism school and so a bunch of them came out which provided my first real chance to meet many of them […]