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Monthly Archives July 2011

Saturday Snap – Hands Up!

Posted 30 July 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – MTV News Explains The Internet (in 1995)

An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmboEjwJwFU This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well.  I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for […]

Posted 29 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail.  This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]

Posted 28 July 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Best Music Books of All-time

Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few – that Ian MacDonald book on the Beatles is awesome!

Posted 27 July 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

“Bravery-Based Librarianship” is the Only Future

This article claims that the future success of libraries revolves around the need to allow for a “little chaos”.  The author concedes that it’s hard to purposely engineer a chaotic environment but that the rewards, when this approach is embraced, is worth it. I think that bravery based librarianship is the only future we have. […]

Posted 26 July 2011 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “We only said goodbye with words/I died a hundred times/You go back to her/And I go back to black.”

Now she’s gone and joined that stupid club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlPBfGYA8SE (via MetaFilter)

Posted 25 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Horror in Norway

We were camping all weekend so didn’t really have a lot of access to the news (I did of course have my iPhone but Rogers service sucks once you get outside major centres).  So it wasn’t until we got home tonight that I realised the full extent of the horror that had happened in Norway […]

Posted 24 July 2011 § Politics § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Camping at White Bear

Posted 23 July 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

Posted 22 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

The Art of Effortless Decision-Making

This article speaks to me. I think we probably all have that experience where decisions don’t get made because we’re paralyzed by trying to make the “perfect” choice or not trusting our intuition? The article reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received.  I was trying to make one of […]

Posted 21 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,