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Monthly Archives October 2018

How To Make A Librarian Freak Out! @last.fm @deezer

I’ve been tracking my music listening habits online via last.fm since 2005. It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song […]

¶ Posted 21 October 2018 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – A Versatile Sign @officialRPL Regent Place Branch #yqr #ReadAboutWeed #GuideToGanja #MaryJaneMonographs #GetBuzzedonBooks

Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂

¶ Posted 20 October 2018 § Canada § Humour § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, health, history, science

Friday Fun Link – Dollar Street and GapMinder’s Four Income Levels

Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]

¶ Posted 19 October 2018 § Canada § Family § Infographic § Jobs § News § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, food, history, travel

Throwback Thursday- #tbt – Grasshopper Cafe, Amsterdam (Fall 1995)

Figured this would be a good week to dig deep in the photo albums for a shot from a weekend trip to Amsterdam our host college arranged while I was on a semester exchange to England in 1995. (That England trip will probably fill 7/10 spots if I ever do a “Fondest Pot Memories” list […]

¶ Posted 18 October 2018 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, travel

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2018 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Music Monday – “There’s houses up all around this farm/Staring into new backyards/Every week they come by/But I can’t sell and I can’t say why”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_T1fCPeXc “Katie” – Fred Eaglesmith

¶ Posted 15 October 2018 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Optimism and Pessimism Around Climate Change

Optimism: The Sask NDP released a very innovative climate change policy as part of their annual convention which would see Crown Corps like SaskPower & SaskEnergy helping individuals, organizations and corporations underwrite a move to a green economy which is the best way forward to get off our current “track” and switch to another that could lead […]

¶ Posted 14 October 2018 § Family § News § Pace § Politics § PopCulture § Sasha § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Welcome Home Mom!

With Shea being away for a week away at a conference, I had visions of having the kids show up at the airport dishevelled, dirty, and with funny signs to welcome their mom home. Unfortunately, Pace’s sense of humour is a bit different than mine so he went with a more traditional sign and only […]