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Category Archives: Humour

Slogans For Library School

This is a list of potential slogans to put on our class t-shirts last semester – provided by classmates, other students, faculty, staff, alumni, library joke sites and more.  Some are pretty obvious, some are in-jokes that only our class would get.  I've put the winning choice in bold and her personal favourite in italic. […]

Posted 01 October 2006 § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (5) °

States I've Visited (American ones, not altered ones)

I'm over at the school having worked on a couple of my first assignments for most of the night after walking Shea to work at 7pm.  Now I'm just surfing around aimlessly because Shea's at work and if I go home, er, I'd probably just be doing the same thing.  Here's something fun I came […]

Posted 09 September 2006 § Internet § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § Photo § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (2) °

How News Travels In A Small Town

My wife and I recently played a practical joke on my mother-in-law, Joan.  If you haven't read about it, go read that first.  Don't worry…I'll wait.Okay, got it?  Here's the update: a couple days after we pulled the prank, Joan got a phone call from a family friend who, disguising his voice, said “This is […]

Posted 04 September 2006 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

The US and us: A Photo Blog

Back from our trip to the States.  Great time but as we traveled, I was continually reminded of a quote which I believe is from Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip: “One on one, Americans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.  But as a group, they scare the hell out of me.”  […]

Posted 01 September 2006 § List § Main Page § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

How To Get Kicked Out of the Librarian's Guild

My wife was recently back in Saskatchewan to visit her parents and during her time there, she got her mom's library card number and PIN number so that she could put books on hold for her over the Net.  That's what Shea was doing last night and one of us (I won't say who ) […]

Posted 18 August 2006 § Main Page § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (3) °

Random Thoughts For A Random Age

Heading to the Student Council's “Talent Show” Coffee House soon.  I'm signed up to read some poetry which is guaranteed to be more “show” than “talent”.  Here's a sample of one poem (2.3 MB mp3) I'll be reading.  The recording is from the 2003 Calgary Stroll of Poets – sorry about the poor sound quality.  […]

Posted 29 July 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (1) °

Friday Fun Link – Librarian Masturbator Caught By Journalist Masturbator (July 28, 2006)

This is about as “fun” as the Friday Fun Links get… Carl Monday, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Cleveland recently did an extremely sensationalistic sweeps-week sting operation (link to video clip) where he used a hidden camera to catch a twenty-something man masturbating at the local public library on a public access […]

Posted 28 July 2006 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (5) °