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Monthly Archives November 2013

High School Was A Long Time Ago

Yesterday, the Indian Head Broncs football team won the Provincial Football Championship. I played for the team in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. The program died out a few years later but was resurrected about three years ago (and has already had more success than any of the years I played!) 😉 Then tonight, I had […]

¶ Posted 10 November 2013 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Cheers!

Shea… Jason…

¶ Posted 09 November 2013 § Photo § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia’s List of Emerging Technologies

Covering all kinds of sectors from energy to manufacturing to health and more. Fascinating glimpse at the near future.

¶ Posted 08 November 2013 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, google, health, science, wikipedia

In Defense of @justintrudeau and #askjustin (sorta kinda)

This won’t be the first time I tried to defend the seemingly indefensible on this blog. So let’s take a deep breath, swallow the bit of throw-up that’s rising in my throat and dive right in… 😉 Social media sites (especially Twitter) exploded over the past 24 hours after an e-vite for a $250/person fundraiser […]

¶ Posted 08 November 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: freedomtoreadweek, language, unitedstates

Is This Pace’s First Freedom to Read Experience?

So this is an interesting one… Pace’s Grade One class has started a daily reading log where they’re assigned some easy readers. They have to record the titles of the books as they read them. In addition to the assigned reading, they can also record any other books (or chapters of books) they read or […]

¶ Posted 06 November 2013 § Censorship § Library § Pace § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, freedomtoreadweek, language

“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” (This Isn’t A Movie Anymore; It’s A Warning)

Do you know the connection between Guy Fawkes, the movie “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous movement? Or that today, was the Million Mask March at locations around the world? If you do, you probably also understand why a variety of worldwide movements and groups – from Anonymous to Occupy to WikiLeaks among others – are […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2013 § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § UK § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, movies, philosophy, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Everybody’s bawlin’ like Wallin/Cause who doesn’t want to fly to Saskatchewan/Via Punta Cana”

¶ Posted 04 November 2013 § Canada § Humour § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, music

YouTube Music Awards

Another big step in the convergence of traditional and new media broadcasting as the YouTube Music Awards – their version of the Grammys/American Music Awards/etc. – happened tonight with a focus on songs that have been heavily viewed and/or gone viral on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG4xaLn2W6s

¶ Posted 03 November 2013 § Censorship § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, google, history, music

Saturday Snap – Halloween Hijinxs

I didn’t actually dress up for Halloween this year (does “Guy who works at a library” count?) but this selfie, taken outside the photo booth they had at our Staff Development Day on October 25 this year sure makes it look like I did! Pace’s idea of decorating a pumpkin included a self-serve option. […]