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Monthly Archives September 2014
Music Monday – “Clap along if you feel/Like happiness is the truth”
Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams
“I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”
Here’s a great scene from the highly underrated British movie, “Brassed Off” which I re-watched this afternoon. (Bonus points for this speech also providing a sample for the song “Tubthumping” by anarcho-punk collective, Chumbawamba) This band behind me’ll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But […]
Friday Fun Link – What the Hell is Ello?
An ad-free, privacy conscious social network (or is it?) (via Quinn Dupont who, if possible, is using even bigger words than when I knew him at FIMS!) 😉
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Plus Sign
I have all my photos on ThisLife.com and they’ve started sending a weekly “This time x years ago, you were…” e-mail. This week’s was particularly memorable as it outlined that eight (!) years ago, I was taking pictures of a little stick with a plus sign on it – our absolute first introduction to Pace! […]
Five Topics
Hockey Pre-season has begun which means the real season is only a couple weeks away. Did you know that a generally accepted rule of Canadian publishing is any book with anything to do with hockey is guaranteed to be a huge seller? True story. Politics No matter, how much he tries to excuse it, I […]
Learning About Magnets
Pace’s teacher tweeted this pic of him and his classmates learning about magnets…
Music Monday – “Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before”
“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle
Robin Williams’ Library Riffs
Williams riffing on libraries for the opening of the new San Francisco Public Library in 1999…