My dad has a heavy old, four-drawer metal filing cabinet. When I was a kid, that filing cabinet was one the most fascinating things for me in our entire house. Many times, when my sister and I would play school or store, the filing cabinet had a part in the story. And it's probably not […]
Partly inspired by the upcoming keynote speaker at the OLA SuperConference, I finally picked up “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom“, the first novel by SF author, former Torontonian, and co-editor of Boing Boing (one of the world's most popular blogs for those not in the know), Cory Doctorow. Corey R. (also a soon-to-be […]
To combine this as both a baby and a library-related post, I'll go back to an entry from a couple weeks ago where I talked about my favourite presentation from my year in library school which was on the topic of online broadcasting. One of the main points I discussed in the presentation is how […]
We had an ultrasound today. Unfortunately they didn't provide VHS or DVD video nor allow us to record even a short clip ourselves (it is a diagnostic procedure after all. But man, are they ever missing out on a guaranteed cash cow if they provided that option!) Anyhow, they did give us some photos including […]
Beyond the irony of that I’m writing about a game called “Homelessness: It’s No Game”, there are other problems with this Flash project. But before I get to that, here’s some background from the designer: “I created this game for a graduate-level course on game design I took at the School of Interactive Arts and […]
Today is 11 months to the day that I started this blog. And sure, if I wanted to be like everybody else, I could wait another month to post this on my much more appropriate one year anniversary. But since I'm thinking of it right now, I'll post it now instead…I've created a really quick […]
Today's the first day we felt Oscar kick! Well, Shea's been feeling it internally for a few weeks. But today's the first time we could feel the thump on the outside. According to Shea, the kid likes to kick like nobody's business. (Hopefully a $250 million soccer contract is in his (or her – must […]
Here's a group called “Librarians Who LibraryThing”.
One of the beautiful things about Firefox as a browser is how customizable it is. According to my stats, the vast majority of people reading this blog use that browser so I thought I'd pass along this site that I had bookmarked: I Want A Firefox Extension To… which is a collection of over 200 […]
A professor teaching a business ethics course assigns certain films (“Thank You For Not Smoking”, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, “Wall Street”) but has had a request for alternate films from a student who doesn't watch 'R' rated movies. The professor posts a question on AskMetafilter looking for alternate selections but in addition […]
