Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun discussing the Master of Library Science's sister degree, the Master of Archival Studies. (Fast forward to 1:40).
From the “How Dumb Am I?” files: A couple of my toes have been a greyish shade of blue since I got my cast on a couple weeks ago. I thought it was the blue colouring from the cast wearing off or something. Yeah, you're not supposed to get a cast wet so how could […]
Shea, Pace and I went for a bite to eat before a doctor's appointment late this afternoon to check on the status of my leg (I'd gone to a clinic to get it looked at originally so my family doctor hadn't seen it yet.) Pace, not having had a nap today, was a bit restless […]
…do you really need a copy of this poster in the bathroom of your office building?
I was talking to a non-librarian who was in doing some training for a couple library staff members this morning. We kept talking about our “Circ” department and she finally admitted, “Everytime you say that, I keep thinking of Cirque du Soleil!” (That naturally made me wonder what the effect on customer service would be […]
The Reddit title for this video pretty much sums it up…uhm, anybody wanna come to a Win7 party at my house on uhm, how about February 30th?
I told this one on Facebook but I don't think I put it on the blog. A few nights ago Pace was throwing toys so I gave him a time-out in his room. Then we hear his little voice: “Mom – backpack!” Shea goes in to see what he means and gives him the backpack […]
[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG! […]
For the last year or so, there's been a web meme going around where people replace the sub-titles in the bunker scene from the German movie “Downfall” with their own interpretation – whether it's “Hitler Finds Out Michael Jackson Died”, “Hitler Finds Out The Ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” or the following […]
You can read the report then the MetaFilter commentary to get an idea of why this report garnered such a reaction – positive, negative and just in terms of provoking conversation.The biggest thing to catch my eye? In a report which has sections dedicated to discussing how young people use Radio, Television, Newspapers, Gaming, Internet, […]
