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Monthly Archives November 2012

Saturday Snap – Other Than “Being Canadian” and Also “Being Five”, Pace is Totally Voting Obama!

This is the CBC story from the Regina Coronation Park & Democrats Abroad US Election viewing party last Tuesday.  (You can also play “spot the Jason” and “spot the Shea” in the background of a few shots.) This is probably also a good place to record some recent Pace cuteness/genius moments: related to the election, […]

Posted 10 November 2012 § Canada § Family § Pace § Politics § Saskatchewan § Shea § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Analysing the Reading Level of the 21 Most Popular Sub-Reddits

Cool idea but not too many surprises on this list – the science sub-reddit is really high (just shy of grade 9 level) and the one for people who smoke pot is really low (just shy of grade 5 level).  Also nice to see /r/atheism come in as one of the top three most advanced […]

Posted 09 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Obama Speaks To A Room Of Volunteers Post-Election

Inspirational… And this clip from Rachel Maddow is pretty good too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwXA7sHUlE

Posted 08 November 2012 § Politics § Sad § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Regina Public Library is now on Twitter (And So Are A Lot of Other People)

Regina Public Library has officially launched their official Twitter account at @OfficialRPL. It’s good to see as it’s been a long time coming. In fact, I’ve advocated for us to get on Twitter many times in my four years at RPL and I know others who were pushing for the addition of that service long […]

Posted 07 November 2012 § Humour § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Obama Wins Re-Election!

Pundits were split along ideological lines but most statistical analysis predicted it was a near-sure thing. But I still wasn’t sure myself, not after the paths for a Romney victory faded away, not even after CNN projected an Obama victory. But I’ve just watched Mitt Romney concede, am awaiting Obama’s acceptance speech and it’s going […]

Posted 06 November 2012 § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

@ryanMeili Monday Redux – Punching Above Your Weight as #skndpldr #nyc #manhattan

With Ryan Meili in New York today for the launch of “A Healthy Society” at Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan at 7pm (and with him getting some pretty high profile attention via a post by Niki Ashton on Michael Moore’s web site), I thought it might be worth re-posting a link to an earlier blog post […]

Posted 05 November 2012 § Canada § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Sappy Sunday – What Are Some Stories About Your Dad You’d Want Your Kids To Know?

From Quora, this story about a son, a dad and a boat killed me… Read Quote of Jonas M Luster’s answer to Family and Families: What are some stories about your dad you would want your kids to know about? on Quora

Posted 04 November 2012 § Family § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Some Stammering Bumbler on CTV Morning Live Promoting Assistive Technology

Before I appeared on a local morning TV show to promote some of the new Assistive Technology we have at Regina Public Library earlier this week, I jokingly posted on my Facebook and Twitter that people should tune in if they were fans of “awkward pauses and stammering answers”. Unfortunately, it turned out to be true […]

Posted 03 November 2012 § Library § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Video § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – How Much Did It Cost Google To Stream “Gangnam Style” 600 Million Times? Did They Make a Profit?

[Edit: This video is now poised to be the first YouTube clip to reach 1 billion views, amazingly in less than six months!] [Edit2: Some further analysis of the revenue Gangnam created.] “Gangnam Style”, a quirky Korean pop song with a very “uniquely” stylish video is the second most watched clip in the history of […]

Posted 02 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Canada Reads 2013 Releases Top 10 Books By Region

Lots of interesting looking books on this list.

Posted 01 November 2012 § Canada § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: