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Monthly Archives April 2012

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]

Posted 20 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Le Blog C’est Mort

My old blog, which I started while I was library school sometime in mid-2006 and ran up until about a year ago at blog.headtale.com is no more. Apparently the company that owned the Blogware software sent out an e-mail via all their resellers about a year ago saying they were ending their support for the […]

Posted 19 April 2012 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (4) °

What Is The Most Epic Photo of All-Time?

A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are.  (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page.  So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)

Posted 18 April 2012 § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

State of America’s Libraries 2012 Report

Well worth a read. (h/t to ALA Think Tank via Jessamyn)

Posted 17 April 2012 § Library § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Staring out of the window as the clouds roll in/Distant rumbling of a storm about to begin”

On the recommendation of a co-worker, someone who’s big in Australia but hasn’t hit in North America yet. A perfect tune for a drizzly day in the Queen City…

Posted 16 April 2012 § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Five Things That Excite Me About The Future

Human-like Robots Always On, Free Internet Wherever You Are Or Wherever You Go Wearable Computers / Wearable Computers / Wearable Computers Driverless Cars and Increasingly Accessible Space Flight Renewable Energy Replacing Conventional Energy (how about Space-based Solar for something that’s really futuristic?) The best thing is that all of these things are very real and increasingly accessible to […]

Posted 15 April 2012 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Look At The Sky

Pace and his buddy, Bryden, having a laugh at Bryden’s second birthday party.

Posted 14 April 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Hunger Games Survival Analysis

I’m not much of a math nerd.  And I admit that stats in library school gave me cold sweats.  But this Hunger Games Survival Analysis is pretty cool. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 13 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

A Bad Year for Computers (And It’s Only April)

It’s funny how we sometimes get locked into one mode of thinking, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary. For example, when we were first planning our Hawaii trip, I decided that the best option for taking photos was to use my iPhone.  At the time, I thought I could purchase some […]

Posted 12 April 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Playoffs Are Here!!!

A Ready-Made Google Calendar You Can Use Why the First Round of the Playoffs is Better Than the Finals How A Hockey Rink’s Surface Is Made: How Bad Do You Want It? My Predictions St Louis vs. San Jose Vancouver vs. Los Angeles Phoenix vs. Chicago Nashville vs. Detroit Boston vs. Washington (would like to […]

Posted 11 April 2012 § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,