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Monthly Archives October 2010

Happy Whoreoween? Heteroween? Hitlerween?

Shea and I had physicals last week and while wandering through the mall where our doctor has his office, we popped into one of those “All Halloween All The Time” specialty stores that always appear just before the holidays and are gone soon after. In other years, I had noticed that there were a lot […]

Posted 31 October 2010 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Opening of the Saskatchewan Legislature (Oct 27, 2010)

Opening of the Saskatchewan Legislature – Oct 27, 2010, originally uploaded by headtale. Here’s a shot from the opening of the fall session of Saskatchewan’s Legislature. When I got invited, I thought it was to sit in the gallery but turns out we got to sit on the floor, right behind where the MLA’s sit […]

Posted 30 October 2010 § Politics § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – MapCrunch: Google Street View Meets ChatRoulette

MapCrunch is a very cool mash-up that’s sort of a cross between Google Street View and ChatRoulette (but with a lot more clicking if you want to see some nudity!) Instead, the site gives you a random shot from Google Street View, either anywhere in the world or narrowed down by specific country or continent.  […]

Posted 29 October 2010 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

(Yet Another) Technological Threat To Libraries

OuiBox (warning: music autoplays) is not only an online word processor and a way to connect to various social media sites but it claims to have the ability to help you fill in facts as you write! We’re not there yet but the fact that this was posted to Reddit with a subject line of […]

Posted 28 October 2010 § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

A Once-A-Year Post

Technically, I should’ve posted this clip yesterday.  But with the way the so-called “weather bomb” snow blizzard crap hit us, I wasn’t really in my usual jaunty “first snow of the year” mood. It’s still supposed to get up to +9 by early next week so maybe I’ll have a do-over then…

Posted 27 October 2010 § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

What Is the Defining Quality of Desirable Employees?

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what single quality, if any, would be the thing you should look for in hiring new employees.  There are a few things that made me think of this – obviously working in the HR Unit at RPL has me thinking about these things, especially when I consider the […]

Posted 26 October 2010 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (1) °

Music Monday – “There’s a high-wire zombie ‘tween the World Trades/A King Kong zombie on the Empire State/But the biggest zombies Tokyo to Rome/The zombies who call the city home”

I first saw Spike Lee’s documentary, “Do It Acapella” back around 1990 or 1991.  In those days, if you saw something on TV, it was gone unless you were watching a channel like MuchMusic that repeated it’s programming on a set (six hour?) rotation throughout the day.  In that case, you could set your VCR […]

Posted 25 October 2010 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Uncategorized § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Rock and Roll?

Pace gives new meaning to the term “rock and roll” at the playground today…

Posted 24 October 2010 § Family § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Trick or treat

Pace is ready for next weekend!

Posted 23 October 2010 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Food For A Dollar

An interesting photo slideshow from NYT of how much of various foods you can get for a dollar. (via MetaFilter and in honour of some enjoyable time spent with MetaFilter moderator, Jessamyn West today at the RPL Staff Conference.  There are exactly four MetaFilter members in the Regina area.  I am one of them.  Yay […]

Posted 22 October 2010 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,