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Monthly Archives August 2010

Saturday Snap – A Few Random Shots From Indian Head High School’s 1991 Graduation Day

My aunt has always been a prolific amateur photographer.  Recently, she purchased a scanner for her computer and so she sent along a bunch of photos she’d scanned from her archives including a series called “Jason’s High School Grad”. Opening that folder began a scary, sentimental walk down memory lane.  The hair was big but […]

Posted 21 August 2010 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Joseph Gordon Levitt Is The Internet’s New Boyfriend

Joseph Gordon Levitt, child star of “3rd Rock From the Son” and blossoming movie star ranging from indy-hits like “(500) Days of Summer” to this summer’s cerebral blockbuster, “Inception” is also apparently a big Web 2.0, open-source, open-collaboration advocate. Five years ago, he formed an online studio called HitRECord.org where anyone can contribute, remix and […]

Posted 20 August 2010 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Facebook Adding Exciting New Services While Google Is Closing Them

Maybe it’s just a quirk of timing but it seems like Facebook’s had a couple big launch announcements recently while Google’s most noticeable activity is dropping their heavily hyped Wave product. Here’s the comparison: Facebook Facebook’s big news yesterday was that they made it official they were launching, Facebook Places, a service to give them […]

Posted 19 August 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Pet Peeves

When you’re sitting at home sick and shivering with a (slightly less) sick kid sitting beside you, that’s a good time for a post listing some of your biggest pet peeves… 1. Captchas that use nonsense words and/or stretch words so that it’s almost impossible to decipher them. (“Is that an ‘i’? An ‘l’? A […]

Posted 18 August 2010 § Library ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Blogging as A Facebook Status Update

Jason is sick.

Posted 17 August 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Down our long dusty driveway/I set my mind to go/I was eighteen and wild and free and wondering

Any time I spend time at our farm with my dad and Pace as I did this past weekend… …I think of this song. One reason the lyrics resonate is because I literally was that nervous boy getting onto the school bus for the first time.  (Of course I managed to come home with a […]

Posted 16 August 2010 § Family § MusicMonday § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Five Thoughts

1.  It’s always a shock to see someone wearing a Hitler ‘stash.  If anybody permanently ruined a certain look, it’s Hitler.  (If anybody else did, it’s Vanilla Ice and I secretly enjoy the fact that now, this blog post will become the top hit for Google searches for “Hitler Vanilla Ice”) 2.  I was impressed […]

Posted 15 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Weyburn Inland Terminal As Seen From Nickle Lake

Posted 14 August 2010 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 10 Best Condiments in the World Right Now

Some I’ve heard of, some I haven’t and man, I love me some rooster hot sauce!

Posted 13 August 2010 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

If this clip were a Superstore marinade, it’d be called “Memories of FIMS”

Look at all the baby librarians!!! Just joking but this is a great video about the UWO library school a couple current graduating students. I’m in HR but don’t actually have the magical power to hire anyone.  Too bad though – I’ve often thought that libraries should be monitoring what’s happening in library schools and […]

Posted 12 August 2010 § Library § Uncategorized § Video ‡ Comments (0) °