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Monthly Archives February 2009

Happy Birthday Shea!

You don't look a day over 29 (okay, maybe one day over 29! )

Posted 18 February 2009 § Main Page § Pace § PopCulture § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – "Numbers, letters, learn to spell/Nouns and books and show and tell" – February 16, 2009

It's Family Day here in Sask and elsewhere across Canada so I thought I'd post the following video in honour of the day.  It's the video slideshow version of a photo book that we made for the grandparents at Christmas set to a nice little White Stripes song. 

Posted 16 February 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Pace § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Kiva Update

Last May for Mother's Day I set up a Kiva account for Shea from Pace and put $100 in it.  Now almost a year later, our initial loans were 75% repaid.  After watching the following video we decided to immediately re-loan that money rather than waiting for it all to be paid back.  Here is […]

Posted 15 February 2009 § Main Page § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

I Love #8 (Followed Closely by #10 with #87 to show.)

One of our branch librarians did a three-week study in her location to record the type and variety of reference questions her staff received.  With her permission, I've reprinted the list her staff compiled below.  The list of questions includes the criteria she gave her staff as to what should be recorded.I think this list […]

Posted 15 February 2009 § Library § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Watch Christopher Walken Roast A Chicken (Feb 13, 2009)

Before the Internet, I probably would not have had access to Christopher Walken's techniques for roasting a chicken.  My life is better for having this knowledge…                     

Posted 14 February 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

"Even Firefox Thinks That Shit Is Ridiculous"

You love celebrity gossip, admit it.  And when I need my fix, I visit What Would Tyler Durden Do (wwtdd.com) which has some of the funniest snarky comments you'll find on the Internet (that's a pretty high bar right there!)  A recent post about the “celebrity” mother of the octuplets in California caught my eye […]

Posted 13 February 2009 § Humour § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Little Mosque on the Prairie & Indian Head, Saskatchewan

My hometown served as a backdrop for many of the exterior shots of the CBC comedy, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (Saskatchewan has a film tax credit that gives incentives for productions to shoot here and increases the benefit if you shoot a certain distance outside our cities.  Indian Head is just outside this zone, […]

Posted 12 February 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

My Johari Window

Pick five words to describe me then compare your answers to other people.  (via Cenobyte who is witty, loving, religious, cheerful and self-assertive among many other things.)

Posted 10 February 2009 § Main Page § Meme ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "Past old crooked dykes/Through Yorkshire's green fields/We were flung into dance/As the train jigged and reeled" – February 9, 2009

If I had to pick a single song to define my time as an undergrad, it would likely be this one.  The song only took on more relevance after I went to York, England in 1995 for a four-month exchange.  I post it today in honour of Chris McG., one of the American exchange students […]

Posted 10 February 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Library Nazis

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Posted 09 February 2009 § Humour § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °