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Monthly Archives January 2014

A Day in the Life of a Branch Librarian

About once a week I work a 10-6 shift instead of a more typical 9-5 one.  With one staff member on holidays and one having called in sick, today happened to be particularly busy day starting as soon as I arrived, an hour later than usual. So I thought I’d do a list of a […]

Posted 21 January 2014 § Library § List § Saskatchewan § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Where people drown and people serve/Don’t be shy, your just desserts/Is only just light years to go”

I must’ve posted this as a Music Monday link (or just as a blog post generally) at some point in the past since I consider it the single greatest song ever written. But for that reason, you can never hear it enough and so here it is again… “Find The River” – R.E.M.

Posted 20 January 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

16 Fancy Literary Techniques Demonstrated By Disney

Just what the post’s title says.

Posted 19 January 2014 § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – A Sleeping Angel

Posted 18 January 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Copyrighted Books For Free, Legally! (Offer Only Good in Norway)

On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]

Posted 17 January 2014 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

“Say Something” – Alex & Sierra

I probably should’ve saved this for a Music Monday post but anyhow, I think I’ve admitted to watching TV singing contests (mostly “American Idol” and “X Factor”, not “The Voice” or the various other ones that are out there) and as an admitted huge fan of The Submarines, I like that the winners of X […]

Posted 16 January 2014 § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“Got Land? Thank An Indian”

Glad to hear the Balcarres school backed off their initial ruling that a student’s “Got Land? Thank An Indian” hoodie was racist and/or offensive to let her continue to wear it.  But I still think they made the wrong call in the first place to censor the student’s wardrobe choice. (As for the CBC commenter’s question, […]

Posted 15 January 2014 § Canada § Censorship § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

One Way To Make Sure You Won’t Be Recalled To The Army

Get a tattoo…  

Posted 14 January 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Photo § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “He said, ‘Dad, how are you unable/To love me/For who I am?'”

Devin Cuddy is the son of Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy. Equally rootsy and catchy as his dad but young Cuddy’s music explores topics I don’t think his dad’s ever did… “My Son’s A Queer” – Devin Cuddy

Posted 13 January 2014 § Canada § Humour § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

About That Future…

Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come…  10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time

Posted 12 January 2014 § Infographic § Internet § List § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,