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Category Archives: Humour

Kellogg's = Geneus!

Having recently sustained fairly serious knee lacerations due to some new “smaller than Mega-Blocks but not as small as regular Lego” Legos that Pace got for this birthday, this story has a particular resonance for me right now in terms of the danger potential of Lego and its myriad affiliated products. 

Posted 20 June 2008 § Baby § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Calgary Trip Photo Album

Shea's got a few photos from our Calgary trip up on Flickr if you're interested.  If not, this MetaFilter thread about the new M. Night Shamaladingdong movie, “The Happening”, is pretty entertaining. 

Posted 19 June 2008 § Baby § Canada § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pace Having Fun in Calgary

We happened to be downtown on the Sunday of the Gay Pride Parade in Calgary so spent some time at Olympic Plaza enjoying the music, the vendors and the atmosphere in general.  In a completely unrelated story, Pace was later photographed wearing this hat…

Posted 18 June 2008 § Baby § Canada § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Where You Sit in A Classroom and What It Says About You

I don't do a lot of posts that earn the “libraryschool” tag anymore but this one seems appropriate.  I was both a “back row” and an “against the wall” type student but also tended to sit furthest from the exit which means I'm “too cool for school”, sensitive and apparently committed (assuming people who sit […]

Posted 22 May 2008 § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Quest for Every Beard Type

As you may have noticed in the Flickr pics from Pace's birthday, my “winter beard” is gone (“winter beard” being a very loose definition – some years it doesn't appear until January as happened this year, some years it sticks around for pretty much 11 months as I think was the case while I was […]

Posted 22 May 2008 § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Pace *Really* Likes Books

Posted 30 April 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Web 4.0? (And The Onion Gets It Right As Usual)

This story about Web 4.0 (I don't know about you but I'm still trying to get my head around Web 2.0!) reminded me of a hilariously prescient Onion article titled “Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades!”  Here's the TechCrunch reference to Web 4.0 that got the linked author all lathered up (there, I tied the […]

Posted 26 April 2008 § Internet § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

The Dubyaburg Address

I have sent UN beekeeping forces to the country of Libraria, to make our nation a safer place for librarians

Posted 25 April 2008 § Main Page § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

"All My Hard Work Out The Window"

…is what Shea said when she caught me feeding Pace chips while watching the hockey game last night.  (At least she didn't catch me giving him sips of beer!)

Posted 23 April 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Americans (and certain Canadian library bloggers) Love Lists

(via Cenobyte B.)

Posted 19 April 2008 § List § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °