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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: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The “Scare Mommy” Game

Sasha’s current favourite game evolved out of the unfortunate fact that she currently thinks the noise all animals make is “roar”.  “What does a kitty say?”  Roar!  “What does a horsie say?”  Roar!  “What does a froggie say?”  Roar!  And so on… Since she liked roaring so much, I started acting scared when she did it […]

Posted 12 September 2014 § Family § Humour § Sasha § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – All The Cool Kids Hang Out at the Library

More on how the earliest recorded signature of Elvis Presley was discovered.

Posted 05 September 2014 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun LInk – “The Coolest” Cooler Breaks Pebble’s Kickstarter Record

The Coolest – a modern cooler integrating all kinds of cool technology and gimzos has unseated Pebble’s over two year long record for highest earning Kickstarter offering, earning $10.7 million to Pebble’s $10.3 million. The Kickstarter has closed now so you can’t get in, even if you wanted to (I did for Pebble but not […]

Posted 29 August 2014 § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – GasRun.ca

GasRun. ca is a pretty cool site that uses your location to estimate the day’s gas price then allows you to enter two destination points and the type of vehicle you drive to estimate how much it would cost for you to travel one-way or return between those two points. So, as an example, I typed […]

Posted 22 August 2014 § Canada § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Parenting Around The World

Very interesting…

Posted 15 August 2014 § Baby § Humour § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °