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Category Archives: Humour

Saturday Snap – No Singing Allowed!

Had a bit of a sad day on Friday when we took Pace to a farewell party for him, a couple classmates and one of the teachers at his daycare Pace has gone to Bright Beginnings Daycare since he was eighteen months old – virtually his entire life when you think about it.  He started […]

Posted 31 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is actually married to someone else in real life) was walking down the aisle to this song to meet Jack Layton at the altar (he was still alive […]

Posted 26 March 2012 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – iPad Photobooth App

Not sure who likes the iPad’s Photobooth app more…

Posted 24 March 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

(via MetaFilter)

Posted 23 March 2012 § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Trex-fast

Posted 17 March 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Library Memes

A collection of popular library memes, all in one place!

Posted 16 March 2012 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snaps – Telemiracle, Telemundo, Tell A Kid To Do Something

Due to a couple large corporate donations and a $1.4 million bequest from a retired farmer, last weekend’s Telemiracle was the most successful of all-time. (Minor claim to fame – I was the guy who added the annual totals section to the Wikipedia entry – yay me!) One of the highlights of watching this show […]

Posted 10 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

The Greatest Quote about Librarians Ever?

This still isn’t my ever-percolating rant about e-books and libraries but I wanted to show how the bar has been raised by this awesome post which includes the great passage: And if you thought about it for more than five seconds, you’d understand what the real purpose of the library should be. And it ain’t […]

Posted 08 March 2012 § Library § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

I Love George Carlin

Posted 06 March 2012 § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

If The Beatles Were Less Subtle

If you’re a big Beatles fan and know the stories behind what inspired many of their songs, you’ll get lots of laughs out of these re-imagined titles. Some examples: Cheer the Fuck Up, Julian (Hey Jude) Please Please Just Give Me A Blowjob (Please Please Me) A bunch of weird shit because we want people […]

Posted 04 March 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,