There’s nothing fun about this week’s post but it’ll likely get your blood boiling. A recent MetaFilter post explained how Circuit City was losing too much money so their brilliant idea to improve the bottom line was to fire their top earning employees (3400 of them) and then offer to re-hire them at a lower […]
A librarian at LPL named Kevin Moore started a Facebook group called “No, I don't look like a librarian” and a few people uploaded humourous pictures of themselves in various “non-librarian” activities to illustrate the point. Rory Litwin, on his blog, Library Juice, posted this in response:Yes, you do look like a librarian!Regarding the Facebook […]
Here's something for everbody back at FIMS as the semester comes to a close… (via Reddit)
One of the books I've got on the go right now is an oral history of Tommy Douglas called “Touched By Tommy: Stories of Hope and Humour About Canada's Most Loved Political Leader, T.C. Douglas”I thought this anecdote about librarians was funny:“Everyone was saying nice things about John Archer. He was leaving the Legislative Library […]
See below for some happy-making stats from a recently released survey. Two questions occur though – how do they correct for the people who over-represent their reading habits? (Even if asked anonymously, some might be inclined to say that they read more than they do. What's the term for that? Where you try to please […]
The remainder of my cohort who are still at FIMS are trading info on our Yahoo! group about the courses that might be interesting/useful/fun for summer term and so I, of course, had to chime in with my thoughts. Here's what I wrote to them:—Hey all, If anybody's interested, I combed through the end-of-term evaluations […]
This is a post I started near the end of library school and meant to post during my furious last week of longish, library school-related entries. But I never got it finished so I thought it would make a good 500th post for this blog instead. Yep, I’ve been at it just over a year […]
Buffalo was rare to non-existent from what we could tell in Ontario. One of the specialty meat vendors in the Covent Market Garden told us that this was because Ontario didn't have the land to raise them like we did out west. Made sense to us but if you don't eat a lot of buffalo […]
I haven't looked at my traffic stats for awhile so imagine my surprise when I log in today and see that I'm really close to my bandwidth limit. I had an issue with this shutting down the blog back in November and December but had my bandwidth limit doubled, figuring that would suffice until I […]
So if you're reading this on Saturday March 24, 2007, you lose! Or something. Of course, it's after midnight on Friday March 23, 2007 so technically, I'm not participating properly either. Of course, I'm too much of an addict rebel to go along with any set day like this anyhow. Actually, that's not so far […]
