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Monthly Archives April 2012

Librarians Who Are Authors

Rosemary Griebel who I met when I worked at the Writers Guild of Alberta (and who later wrote me a kick-ass reference letter when I applied to library school) is getting some huge props for her first poetry collection. My former library school classmate, Corey Redekop, will soon have his second novel published. Last but […]

Posted 10 April 2012 § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too.”

Being in the US, especially on a major religious holiday, is always eye-opening to me as an atheist. For example, this chart ran with a newspaper story whose title and anecdotal themes suggested people were coming back to faith but which the hard evidence clearly suggests otherwise… I will concede that religion and religious pressure […]

Posted 09 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

A Weekend of US-based Technology

Back from a couple days in Minot, ND and some random thoughts about my use/mis-use of technology while there… – first thing I did upon hitting our hotel room was load up Pandora.  Or at least I tried to – both the iPhone and iPad apparently still recognized I had a Canadian iTunes account and […]

Posted 08 April 2012 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Space Aliens Grill & Bar

A BBQ restaurant with a Space Alien theme AND video arcade? Definitely my favorite place in Minot!

Posted 07 April 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Food Network 100 Greatest Cooking Tips of All-Time

I’m hungry just reading this awesome list!

Posted 06 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“I am very real” – Kurt Vonnegut Addresses The Teacher and School Board That Burned His Book

A great defence of the freedom to read by my favourite author when a North Dakota community burns his book.  More at MetaFilter. In completely unrelated news, we’re off to Minot, ND for a weekend of water slides, shopping and America-only treats like Pandora and Cherry Coke.  😉

Posted 05 April 2012 § Family § Library § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Google Glasses

A very cool announcement from Google about an experimental, augmented reality wearable computer (translation: futuristic eyeglasses) that could crush Apple’s iPhone dominance if it takes off.

Posted 04 April 2012 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Why Is Pinterest So Addictive?

Only the infographic knows!

Posted 03 April 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “So we’ll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power”

RPL had a successful strike vote tonight which means this is my theme song for the foreseeable future…

Posted 02 April 2012 § Humour § Library § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Reddit Timeline

I’ve done some April Fool’s jokes on this blog before but this year, it sort of snuck up on me so I didn’t have anything planned.  Instead, I’ll link to a new sub-Reddit that was created just to track various 2012 April Fool’s stuff from around the web. Speaking of Reddit, they had their own […]

Posted 01 April 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °