The NHL All-Star Game is coming up in a couple days. This year is the first All-Star game since 2004 (2005 was missed due to the lockout, 2006 was skipped due to the Winter Olympics) and many saw it as an opportunity for the league to continue their rebound from the bad feelings caused by […]
After Shea got off work last night, we drove down to Weyburn to visit her parents for the weekend and I had a busy day today. I met with a local librarian (and former FIMS grad) for a long chat this morning, made mis-shapen buns this afternoon, then met with another local librarian, who is also a FIMS grad […]
Most people reading this are probably familiar with LibraryThing, a web site that allows you to easily enter and catalogue your books, see the libraries of others (including those with a similar collection to yours) and much more. But LibraryThing is not the only site in this area. Shelfari is the latest addition to the […]
John M. did a post about Michael Gorman after hearing about one of his books on my blog. To keep the cross-blog dialogue flowing, I thought this might be a fitting time to post a comment I made about Gorman on our “Advocacy in Libraries” message board. I posted the following on the week we […]
Oscar turned 20 weeks today. Happy birthday uteroversary, baby! Jill recently pointed out my love of lists (if you ask me, lists are the letters of the 21st century) and so here's another one for the collection…FIVE THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT PREGNANCY1. Nobody ever tells you how scary the first trimester is. You hear […]
Reading a Joel Stein article in Time magazine led me to this piece he wrote which got quite a lot of attention and controversy early last year. It’s about what a cop-out it is to be anti-war but to say you “support the troops.” When you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know […]
The “daily post” streak continues although I probably have done a few “after midnight posts for the previous day” in the last couple months. If it's time stamped 11:59pm, that's probably a pretty big clue. I think it'll be a big step when I just let the streak go, I think. In the meantime, here's […]
Here's a new blog that regularly posts answer to reference-type questions. (via MetaFilter)
ENFP – “Journalist”. Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population. Free Jung Word Choice Test (similar to MBTI)personality tests by similarminds.com Extroverted (E) 83.33% Introverted (I) 16.67% Intuitive (N) 79.17% Sensing (S) 20.83% Feeling (F) 83.33% Thinking (T) 16.67% Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67% (via […]
US News names their 25 Best Careers for 2007 and Librarian is right up there – although we get a “C” rating for both “job outlook” and “prestige”. (Physician’s assistant on the other hand…)
