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Monthly Archives August 2008

What Proportion of Academic Library Books Never Get Read?

AskMetaFilter recently featured an interesting question about how many books in a typical University library rarely or never get used.It was timely for me because, although I'm in a public library setting, I'm in the midst of a major weeding project so I've had occasion to look at the usage statistics for over a thousand […]

Posted 10 August 2008 § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Funny Link – Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh (August 8, 2008)

Posted 08 August 2008 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Pace's First Word(s)

We were at our family farm last weekend for a family reunion.  Shea was standing with Pace and one of my aunts.  “What's that?” the aunt said pointing at a tractor.“Track-ter!” Pace said.“Oh, he's really talking, isn't he?” said the aunt.“Uhm, yes” replied Shea who had never heard Pace say this word before.So, here's a […]

Posted 08 August 2008 § Baby § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

10 Questions That Every Intelligent Christian Must Answer

This video, from the web site “Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?“, poses some provocative questions.  Or perhaps we should just be calling for a Truce on Religion?  (Oh, and I found an answer for Question #8 as a start.)

Posted 06 August 2008 § Main Page § Meme § Video ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged:

The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons

A photo from this weekend ties in nicely to a thread I started at AskMetaFilter today (and if you haven't read “The Prince of Frogtown“, I'd highly recommend it!)

Posted 05 August 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Late Link – "Your Parents Named You WHAT?" (Aug 1, 2008)

I didn't get a chance to do a post on Friday so this will be my late Friday Fun Link.  I thought it was somewhat appropriate after a weekend of explaining to relatives why we would ever name a child “Pace”.  (Okay, it wasn't that bad but one relative did continually refer to him as […]

Posted 04 August 2008 § Baby § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Author Offers IPO

Author offers IPO to raise funds to help him write his second novel with 60% of royalties as the reward.  The story also contains a link to an oldie but a goodie that I posted last July – “If libraries didn't exist, could you start one from scratch today?”

Posted 02 August 2008 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

"Family Reunion"- Corb Lund

Okay, I'm back up.   Almost made it to the end of the month for the bandwidth reset but once again, my massive popularity is my downfall (er, also my crappy host.)   Anyhow, I'll perhaps type a more detailed post about my thoughts on blogs, ISP's, web hosting and the like someday.  But for now, […]

Posted 01 August 2008 § Blog § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: