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Friday Fun Link – Spirit of the West’s John Mann Dancing

I recently wrote about the sad news that Spirit of the West lead singer, John Mann, has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Without being too hyperbolic, I have to say there aren’t many bands that have played as big of a role in my life as Spirit of the West – everything from the […]

Posted 21 November 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – File Under “Other”

Management is having staff at my library do a week-long “Activity Assessment” project where all staff have to record what they’re doing every five minutes of their shifts. Now if I could just figure out where “Boost Patron’s Truck” is on their report form?  😉 

Posted 15 November 2014 § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The World’s Most Contagious MythConceptions

These are 52 wildly held beliefs that also happen to be completely wrong. How many did you think were true?  (I’ll admit that I thought about a dozen of these were true – I’m just not going to admit which ones!) 😉

Posted 14 November 2014 § Infographic § List § Meme § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Book With No Pictures

One of those “Why didn’t I think of that ?” ideas. So clever…

Posted 07 November 2014 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Sasha Tries Pop Rocks For the First Time

I don’t think she knows what to think…

Posted 31 October 2014 § Family § Humour § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – What Quote or Line From A Book That Changed Your Life?

A fun question on /r/books. Not sure what my pick would be – maybe “So it goes” from Slaughterhouse Five as a perfect illustration of how shit happens and then we die? Or on a more optimistic note: ““And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think […]

Posted 24 October 2014 § Library § List § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Do Not Touch

This site is pretty cool – a band created a crowdsourced music video comprised of people who visited their site following the instructions on screen.  Try it yourself!

Posted 17 October 2014 § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Only in the Prairies (Record High and Record Low, Same Day, One Year Apart)

This graphic showed up on Reddit as a perfect snapshot of what you can expect in Alberta – a record high and record low only one year apart.  (It showed up earlier this week and I didn’t bookmark it but assume it was a shot from around this time of the year – late September […]

Posted 03 October 2014 § Canada § Humour § Infographic § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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!) 😉

Posted 26 September 2014 § LibrarySchool § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – How Would Steve Jobs Sell You A Pen?

“Sell me this pen.” An old business school cliche, recently brought to attention again in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street” gets a fictional Steve Jobs spin.

Posted 19 September 2014 § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,