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Monthly Archives June 2008

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Four – "Mexico" – Cake

Posted 10 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Three – "Escape Is At Hand (For The Travelling Man)" – The Tragically Hip

Posted 09 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Two – "Three Little Birds"

Posted 08 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Holiday Mix Tape – Day One – "Island in the Sun" – Weezer

Here's my idea on how to maintain my blogging consistency but not worry about having to find Internet connections and/or content while we're on holidays for the next week.I'm going to pre-program a music video or clip from YouTube that will appear every morning for the next week, almost like the blogging equivalent of a […]

Posted 07 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Read at Work (and an unrelated story of why Shea is a computer genius) (June 6, 2008)

Read at Work is a site from the New Zealand Book Council that allows you to read classic books, poetry, samples from selected New Zealand authors and more, online and formatted to look like either the Windows XP interface and Powerpoint presentations.  Very fun and cool (though I do not, of course, advocate performing non-work […]

Posted 07 June 2008 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Shea § Technology § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Boring Real Life Stuff

I couldn't think what to post about so Shea suggested I give an update from my real life.  So here it is…– tonight we went for a big walk and ended up in River Park just down the hill from where we live in Weyburn.  There was an In Motion celebration going on and Pace […]

Posted 06 June 2008 § Baby § Canada § Main Page § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Time To Read Gala Windup (& Five Non-Library Related Reasons I Love My Job)

Today, I went to the wind-up of Time To Read, a joint project of Southeast Regional Library and the Prairie Valley School Division.  I was part of the initial steering committee for this project which started last summer but had to reduce my role when I went on the road for most of January, February […]

Posted 05 June 2008 § Library § List § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Hope…

Pace doesn't watch TV very much but while I was watching Barack Obama give his speech tonight having finally clinched the Democratic nomination (or did he?), Pace sat right down in front of the TV and watched, enthralled, for a few minutes.  I didn't have my camera handy for that very cool shot so I […]

Posted 04 June 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Hockey in June – How Canadian

As I type this, the Pittsburgh Penguins are up 2-1 on the Detroit Red Wings in the second period of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.  This makes me happy. If the Wings come back to win, they'll win the Cup and the hockey season will be officially over.  This makes me sad.I'm cheering […]

Posted 03 June 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Chris Dixon Memorial Scholarship – Update

I wrote about this when it was first announced.  Below is the latest update about the scholarship in memory of FIMS PhD student, Chris Dixon.  If you haven't given anything yet, I would strongly encourage you to do so, especially if you knew Chris – as a classmate or as a TA or whatever.  In […]

Posted 01 June 2008 § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °