The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has put up over 13 000 segments going back to 1999. That's pretty cool…or at least it would be if I could get any of the videos in the archives to load. Maybe the site's just being hammered with traffic because it's so new. But it almost makes you […]
Would you work for this library? I would in a heartbeat. (See the end of the post for the Internet company I cribbed this hiring manifesto from. I've re-worded it so it sounds like a library wrote it.)Our Library delights peopleIt is satisfying to work at a company that people love. When you wear Library […]
John M. has posted some reflections on reaching the halfway point of the MLIS program as a part-time student. He started in the same term as me which was Jan 2006 but because he's only taking 1-2 classes per term, he isn't scheduled to finish until August 2009. As someone who did the program in […]
This site is pretty cool. It gives you a visual depiction of what your salary is on a hourly/weekly/yearly basis and even shows a ticker of how much money you earn as you look at the page (especially fun if you look at it while at work!)In other work-related news, I wore a cardigan to […]
Whether you believe unions still have a role to play in society or not, this is pretty surprising. Frank Stronach, the owner of the multi-billion dollar auto parts manufacturing company, Magna International has agreed to a deal with the CAW to allow unionization in his factories. (Hey, if his daughter can flip-flop, why can't dad? […]
Just wanted to record that milestone for posterity. His mom and I probably put that up there with first food and walking right about now! Hopefully tonight will be a repeat.
Sometimes it boggles my mind how much is available on YouTube. I've taken full advantage by posting all kinds of clips on this blog (er, but watch them before the copyreich people get them taken down.)Up until now, I've sort of limited myself to posting one clip per entry (I think the most I ever […]
I’ve done a pretty fucking exhaustive swearing-related FFL before but this fucking article is a nice fucking addition to that list. Fuck yeah!
Since Pace was born, I've sort of had my ear tuned to what other friends and acquaintances have been naming their babies. I grew up with one of the most common boy's names of the 1970's and although I didn't hate it, there's definitely something out-of-whack when you're in a graduating class of 44, half […]
When I was in Calgary, I went in a hockey pool with my cousin and his buddies every year. The rules we used were fairly standard in that the team you picked at the draft was the team you were stuck with for the year (in retrospect, dropping your lowest scoring player – ie. the […]
