Monthly Archives September 2008

Patriotic Drunk Rednecks

Something like 15% of American citizens believe Barack Obama is Muslim.  Including the woman in this video.  But I'm not posting this clip to make fun of her.  I mean, the woman does say she's a Hillary supporter!  (Okay, maybe I'm making a bit of fun. )At any rate, even when it has nothing to […]

Google Newspaper Archive

Yet another groundbreaking Google project was announced a month ago. I didn't blog about it at the time but I recently rediscovered it via the Vancouver Law Librarian blog which made me realise the full scope of this project already. So I thought I better pass it along. So Google's announcement that it will be […]

When Books Could Change Your Life

“A girl I once caught reading Fahrenheit 451 over my shoulder on the subway confessed: “You know, I'm an English lit major, but I've never loved any books like the ones I loved when I was 12 years old.” I fell slightly in love with her when she said that. It was so frank and […]

Friday Fun Link – Ms. South Carolina vs. Ms. (Congeniality) Alaska (Sept 27, 2008)

You may have seen the original viral video… But have you seen the Sarah Palin mash-up “highlighting” her recent interview with Katie Couric? And since we're on the topic (again – what is the strange fascination I have with this woman?) And one more. I mean, thank GOD that she's been blessed against witchcraft. She's […]

Lame Library Joke Told at the Investors Group Comedy Tour

My parents got invited to the Investors Group cross-Canada comedy tour stop in Regina tonight and invited Shea and I to join them. The second comedian, Tim Nutt, began his act this way… “Alright Regina! How y'all doing? Thursday night in Regina – must be exciting – let's go down to the nice theatre and […]

The Small Joys of Working For A Library

The other day, I was at our local mall and popped into the bookstore. On the shelf, I saw a new title called “The 100 Greatest Canadian Albums of All-Time”. This one caught my eye and was quickly in my hand as I turned to head for the cashier. But then I thought, “Twenty five […]

Thirst

This slideshow won a recent competition for “Best Slideshow” on Slideshare… THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)

"All by myself, don't wanna be, all by myself, anymooorre!"

Shea's mom had a couple days off so Shea and Pace headed down to Weyburn on Sunday for a brief visit, returning tomorrow. It's been good timing as that's allowed me to pluck away on the new Mac for a couple days without interruption – I mean, I love Pace more than anything in the […]

Howdy Pardner!

Pace's name often gets mis-heard as “Chase” or “Ace” or other western-themed terms. So I thought this photo from a recent birthday party we attended was fitting. (I'm also happy to report that the conversion continues – I was able to download nearly a month's worth of photos and video clips from our camera into […]

I Am A Mac (Rookie)

Okay, more questions for whoever it is providing such good answers in my last post (they're signing their posts as “K” but I think of them as “Sweet Apple Angel of Knowledge”. The software updates didn't fix my inability to see my full control console when doing blog posts. On my PC, I'd see buttons […]