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Monthly Archives July 2013

How Much Happens Every 60 Seconds On The Internet?

A lot!

¶ Posted 30 July 2013 § Infographic § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, copyright, facebook, google, movies, music, television, twitter, wikipedia

Four For The Price of One (Friday Fun/Saturday Snap/Sappy Sunday/Music Monday)

We were out of town this weekend for Shea’s parents’ 40th Wedding Anniversary so I didn’t get around to blogging as we were pretty busy the whole time. Instead of going back and post-posting (er, is that a word? Backdating posts to keep my “daily post” commitment going anyhow), I thought that, this time I’d […]

¶ Posted 29 July 2013 § Family § FridayFunLink § MusicMonday § Photo § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, google, parents

When Mom and Brother Are Away…

…Sasha and Daddy will play! Shea was at a fitting for a bridesmaid dress and Pace was at a playdate with a friend tonight so Sasha and I had a fun evening of “Kick Daddy To See Him Say Ow!”, “Dancing and Singing to Old-School Rap Songs” and of course, a personal favourite, “Sneak into […]

¶ Posted 25 July 2013 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cute

CLA’s “13 Questions With…Jason Hammond”

The CLA Government Library & IM Network has a weekly feature on their web site where they ask various librarians across Canada a standard set of 13 questions that helps give some insight into the wide variety of backgrounds, specializations and interests of people serving as librarians across Canada and beyond. My own profile got […]

¶ Posted 23 July 2013 § Library § LibrarySchool § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s like rain/On your wedding day/In a place you chose/That’s not known for rain.”

Two New York sisters (who are obviously future copy editors) re-work one of Alanis Morrisette’s most famous songs so that it’s finally accurate. Or to put it another way, “The only ironic thing about the [original Alanis Morrisette] song is that it’s written by someone who doesn’t know what irony is.” “It’s Finally Ironic” – […]

¶ Posted 22 July 2013 § Canada § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Facebook and My Social Clusters

Stephen Wolfram recently published an analysis of a huge dataset of how people are using Facebook that is extremely fascinating (so fascinating that I wanted to except some of the best parts but didn’t know where to start!) One of the findings was that the most common social structure people tend to have two or […]

¶ Posted 21 July 2013 § Family § Internet § MemoryLane § Politics § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: facebook

Saturday Snap – A Pink Flamingo Appears: My Birthday at RPL

Okay, after tomorrow, I promise the 40th birthday-themed entries will stop! (Probably.) But I did want to recap how my day went at work. RPL has a tradition of passing along a pink flamingo to whoever is celebrating a milestone birthday (for some reason I only thought it went to people celebrating their 50th […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2013 § Humour § Meme § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The CFTD Parenting Method Sweeps the Nation

Yes parents, most concerns, competitive instincts and crying jags can be allayed if you too decide to practice “Calm the Fuck Down” parenting. 😉 Worried your friend’s child has mastered the alphabet quicker than your child? Calm the f*ck down. Scared you’re not imparting the wisdom your child will need to survive in school and beyond? Calm […]