Year: 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

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

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,

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

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

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

"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,

Books to Beers & Stacks to Snacks: Folkin' Librarian Edition

I know nobody will read this until my blog's bandwidth resets on August 1 but that's still enough warning if you're a Regina and area librarian about our

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