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Monthly Archives September 2011

Map Porn

I recently discovered an awesome sub-Reddit called r/mapporn which features all kinds of really frickin’ cool maps such as “America 1681“, “Flipping European and North American Cities“, “World Map of Railways“, “Map of Facebook Connections” and I have to stop there or else I’ll just link to all their maps – each one is so […]

Posted 20 September 2011 § Library § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Driving all night/In the mood for something/Got a hankerin’ for some hot man lovin’/Keep it clean.”

The Westboro Baptist Church are a truly odious group of folks (widely referred to as a hate group) who travel around “protesting” various events that they somehow think are connected to homosexuality.  But when they chose to protest a recent Foo Fighters concert, the band had a response planned.  (Of course this raises questions about […]

Posted 19 September 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Random Thoughts from the Indian Head-Milestone NDP Fundraiser

Shea and I were out to Indian Head yesterday to take in a fundraiser for the local NDP candidate in this year’s Provincial Election with guest speaker, Dr. Ryan Meili (plus a pretty amazing special guest speaker too.) Here’s some random thoughts… – we heard about the fundraiser at a wedding in IH about a […]

Posted 18 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – The Karate Kid

Posted 17 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – One Day on Earth

A recent documentary features a variety of scenes from all around the world captured on a single day.  Here’s the trailer: One Day on Earth – Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.

Posted 16 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

You Know You’re A Library Nerd When… (aka Hawaii Public Libraries)

I admit that I’m such a library nerd that sometimes when I’m bored and can’t think of something to look at on the Internet, I’ll just go to a random library’s web site to see what’s up, what they’re doing, how they present themselves.  It’s especially fun to pick libraries that you expect to be […]

Posted 15 September 2011 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Do Happier People Work Harder?

The idea of a connection between happiness and productivity is a discussion I’ve had with a few people at work over the past couple years – some who are in agreement with the idea, some who feel there’s no link between happiness and productivity and some who are uncertain (or haven’t given it much thought […]

Posted 14 September 2011 § Library § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Odd/Quirky Ways To Be The Best Dad Possible?

Reddit weighs in on this question.  Personally, I really like that “Enact a 6pm is dancing time – every night!” idea (though it’d likely have to be a different time since we’re watching the news at that time.)   I don’t know if this is odd/quirky but a lot of times, I just like to […]

Posted 13 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “How can you just walk away from me/When all I can do is watch you leave?”

Spooky.  Spooky good, that is!

Posted 12 September 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Some Thoughts on The 10th Anniversary of 9/11

There’s a lot of commentary today online, in other media and at memorials around the world.   So instead of adding to the noise, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of some of the most interesting things I’ve seen… (Oh, okay – I’ll quickly do my own “Where were you when?” story since I […]

Posted 11 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,