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Monthly Archives November 2006

What If We Had Nine Required Courses and Six Electives?

In a recent post on “My Perfect Program“, I mentioned that our library school apparently used to have nine required courses (and presumably six electives) which is the exact opposite of what we have now.  I don't know what the required courses used to be – I think collections development and a technology one called […]

Posted 08 November 2006 § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (14) °

Turn To Corner Gas RIGHT NOW!

Corner Gas tonight is an episode with blogs as a theme.  Great show at the best of times but I find this one particularly funny.  Hank starts a blog and thinks everybody's reading it but of course no one is.  (Sound familiar? ) Oscar: “Yeah, I love your blob.”

Posted 07 November 2006 § Blog § Humour § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) °

Furniture For Sale

Hey everybody,Shea and I are moving home in December so I've put an ad up on the UWO housing registry advertising that we're willing to sell any or all of our furniture and other household items, starting in mid-December.  (Or if anybody stumbles across this blog who is coming to UWO in January, we're willing […]

Posted 05 November 2006 § Canada § List § Main Page § Photo § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Alternate Spring Break

I don't think I'll sign up but I thought this was a pretty cool idea… Alternative Spring Breaks 2007 : “Be the Change…”Instead of hitting the beach, you (Western students) have the chance to participate in an intensive, hands-on service project during Reading Week 2007, organized by The Centre for New Students and Western Residence […]

Posted 04 November 2006 § Main Page § Politics § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Songs For A…

There's a bit of a discussion about music choices happening in the comments of my recent Beautiful South post so, in the spirit of that great work of music-list making, High Fidelity I thought I'd bring one idea out to the front page in handy-dandy ready-meme format:Song that is “Your Song” for you and your […]

Posted 04 November 2006 § List § Main Page § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (15) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – US Presidential Speeches – Tag Clouds (Nov 3, 2006)

Just in time for the US mid-term elections next week, this site (which unfortunately is best viewed in Internet Explorer) creates a tag cloud of the most-used phrases in every President’s State of the Union address going back to 1776. Phrases are shown in terms of popularity, frequency and trends. Use the slider at the […]

Posted 03 November 2006 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

When To Start Library School?

I was over at the UCC this morning for a meeting and there happened to be a trade fair on for various grad studies programs, both at UWO and with displays from other universities as well.  I stopped at the FIMS booth to chat with Rosanne Greene, our Grad Student Services coordinator and ended up […]

Posted 03 November 2006 § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Beautiful South, Calgary at Detroit, and Death of A President

Tonight, one of my favourite Britpop bands, The Beautiful South is playing in Toronto.  They're a piano-based group who write melodies like Burt Bacharach but lyrics like Elvis Costello (or somebody even more sarcastic and bitter.)  I'd thought about going but between all the work I'm trying to get done (even though it's research week) […]

Posted 02 November 2006 § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: