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Monthly Archives September 2011

Saturday Snap – Pace Goes Off The Diving Board

Posted 10 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Dig A Hole To The Other Side of the World

I’m sure everybody’s wondered where they’d end up if they could dig a hole directly through to the other side of the earth.  In fact, I think the official playground ruling on this immortal question, at least for anyone contemplating this question in Canada, is “China”. Now, technology allows you to answer that exact question […]

Posted 09 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy RPL-a-versary to Me!

Today is my three year anniversary of starting work at RPL.  A few stream-of-unconscious thoughts and observations… 1. I started working for the Writers Guild of Alberta at almost the exact same time of year – I know because I was in their office doing my initial training a couple days before September 11.  (I’ve […]

Posted 08 September 2011 § Library § MemoryLane § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

The 50 Best Tasting Foods in the World

CNN conducted an unscientific worldwide poll and after getting 35 000 responses, created a list of the 50 best tasting foods in the world. Canada hits the list at 46 with maple syrup but that’s our only contribution.  Surprisingly (?) the two top ranked dishes are both Indonesian (did Indonesians scam the poll?), neither of […]

Posted 07 September 2011 § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“Straight, Not Narrow”: Has Calgary Quietly Become The Most Progressive City in Canada?

Calgary had their annual Pride Parade this past weekend.  Pride Parades are commonly held in major cities throughout Canada but Calgary’s recent parade set two important milestones – the first time the mayor of the city has appeared in the parade as new mayor, Naheed Nenshi, served as the parade marshall. The Calgary Flames also […]

Posted 06 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “B is for Butt, C is for Cat-Butt, D is for doo-doo”

Pace’s new favourite song (or is that his dad’s?)… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKfkxPnkRG0

Posted 05 September 2011 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

“Rome Sweet Rome” – A Very Cool Web-Generated Novella

A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]

Posted 04 September 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Bad Parenting Example #289

Letting your child use an upturned picnic table as a playhouse when camping… 😉

Posted 03 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Minus.com

Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day.  He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and […]

Posted 02 September 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Time Travel, Being Violated By A Police Officer and An Early Hint o’ My Librarian Tendencies

We were at a wedding in my hometown about a month ago.  Sitting at the table during the reception, I was chatting with one of the people I hadn’t seen in a long time but who had lived next door to our house for most of her years in Indian Head.  She was a friend […]

Posted 01 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,