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Monthly Archives June 2012

Mick Burrs: Real Live Poet

Had a surprise visitor at work the other day – poet Steven Michael Berzensky (aka Mick Burrs). I first came across Mick’s books when, as a young English major, I would go to Yorkton as part of my job as a door-to-door salesman with Image Cable Systems.  I would spend the night at a co-worker’s […]

Posted 20 June 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Re-live TEDxRegina Through the Magic of Online Streaming Video!

Here’s my personal favourite presentation from TEDxRegina last month. (All the TEDxRegina videos are up but as of right now, and just for me (?), not all eight are showing up when you search for that tag.  But that’s okay because I can hold a few back for later posting!)  

Posted 19 June 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Maybe a lonely man/Who’s in the middle of something/That he doesn’t really understand.”

Happy 70th Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney (or is it?) Some of my personal faves of Sir Macca’s songs through the years with the Beatles, Wings and solo…

Posted 18 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Father’s Day!

What makes a father first realize that he is a dad? (Now, if you’ll excuse I think I have some dust in my eye…)

Posted 17 June 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – How To Drink A Root Beer Float…LIKE A BOSS!

Posted 16 June 2012 § Family § Humour § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?

Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)

Posted 15 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Stephen Harper on Omnibus Budgets

In 1994… Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order to make a procedural argument concerning the omnibus nature of this piece of legislation…Bill C-17, is of an omnibus nature. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that you should rule it out of order and it should not be considered by the […]

Posted 14 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Ask Reddit: What’s a computer trick you think everyone should know?

What’s a computer trick you think everyone should know? Lots of practical tips as well as some slightly more devious ones.

Posted 13 June 2012 § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Shit Sighted People Say To Blind People

I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)

Posted 12 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

Posted 11 June 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,