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Friday Fun Link – Tout

Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text.  Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]

Posted 22 April 2011 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language

This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.

Posted 15 April 2011 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some Recent Signs I’m Becoming An Old Man

Penciled in the Gold Medal Curling Game as my Sunday night’s entertainment.  (I also have the PVR set to record “60 Minutes” every week though, in defense of my youth, I haven’t watched a single episode yet!) Spent time before the curling started getting my sump pump up and running. Spent last night playing a […]

Posted 10 April 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – One Day, Two Cakes

Went to a first birthday party in Regina this afternoon… …then on to Indian Head for a birthday for my dad which was also his first…for this year! 😉

Posted 09 April 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

“Service to Community is the Best Work of Life”

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got inspired by Dwain Lingenfelter talking about his father at the recent NDP convention. The NDP candidate in my area, Jaime Garcia, writes about the inspiration his own father has been to him. Since the federal election’s been called, there have been lots of people grumbling that it’s a […]

Posted 30 March 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Varadero Beach, Early in the Morning

Our first morning in Varadero, Shea, Pace and I woke up early (well, we woke Mr. Sleepy Head up!) and made our way down to the beach which we ended up having pretty much to ourselves.  One of many special moments from our trip…  

Posted 19 March 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Our Cuba Vacation (Before & After)

Posted 11 March 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

FTRW 2011 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Pace writes his name for the first time!

Pace writes his name for the first time, originally uploaded by headtale. This post has nothing to do with censorship but everything with the power of the written word. Even though we’re a librarian and a public heath nurse with a special interest in early childhood development, I’d say we’ve been fairly typical in terms […]

Posted 26 February 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – A Space-Themed Birthday Party in Manitoba

Posted 12 February 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

100 Best First Lines and Last Lines From Novels

The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I say “What do we say when we come to the end of a book?” and then he yells out “THE END!”  So that’s probably my favourite last […]

Posted 03 February 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,