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Westeros’ New Power Couple?

¶ Posted 29 August 2017 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: television

Friday Fun Link – r/solareclipse

We were out at the lake all weekend and just got back today (Tuesday) but I’m going to do a few quick backdated posts for the past few days starting with the Friday Fun Link I missed – Reddit’s r/solareclipse sub-Reddit which actually works really well as a delayed link because it now has lots of […]

¶ Posted 18 August 2017 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – iPhone’s 10th Anniversary

Today is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone being released, perhaps the single most revolutionary product of my lifetime. There has been numerous models of iPhone in that time of course, each offering incremental and often transformative improvements. I got my first iPhone 3GS around 2009 – I was too cheap to buy one even […]

¶ Posted 29 June 2017 § MemoryLane § Technology § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Spotify’s Biggest One Hit Wonders

A graph of the songs that get the most plays out of an artist’s entire catalogue on Spotify…

¶ Posted 16 June 2017 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows if it’s night or day/But please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band/Who’ll throw it all away”

Yesterday’s “One Love for Manchester” concerts, pulled together only a couple weeks after a terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert are being compared to the 1970’s “Concert for Bangladesh“, the 1980’s “Live Aid“, the 1990’s “Tibetan Freedom Concert” and the 2000’s “Live 8” as another in a long line of notable benefit concerts – this being […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2017 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Sad § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, music, television

Music Monday – “There are places I’ll remember/All my life, though some have changed/Some forever, not for better/Some have gone and some remain” (4000th Post Milestone!)

It’s pretty hard to believe but today marks the 4000th post this blog since I started it over a decade ago on February 25, 2006, a couple months after starting the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Western Ontario. I had always been into computers and technology from banging out programs in […]

¶ Posted 15 May 2017 § Blog § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, ontario

Friday Fun Link – Ten Bands I’ve Seen (One Is A Lie) (And A Full Fred Eaglesmith Concert Video Too)

The latest meme to take over Facebook is “These Are 10 Bands I’ve Seen (One Is A Lie)“. There’s two main elements to the meme – one is you are defining your persona (are all your bands punk? Hipster? Goth? Will people believe you saw some unhip band like the Beach Boys if ever other […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2017 § FridayFunLink § List § Meme § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

10 Things Elwin Hermanson Could Learn At A Library #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries

Former Reform MP and first leader of the Sask Party, Elwin Hermanson, came out of the woodwork (there’s a Hermanson/hermit pun in there somewhere) recently to weigh in on the backlash to the Sask Party’s cuts to public libraries… It’s hard to know where to start with such a clueless and misinformed post. But I’ll try… […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2017 § Humour § Library § List § Meme § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: economics, education, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – “Drop Everything and Read” Is Huge Success #skpoli #dearsask #saveSKLibraries #dearsk

I honestly felt like I was going to break the “Angry” emoticon on Facebook the past two weeks – so much bad news about cuts to libraries but also to education, STC and other vital services coming across my news feed. Thankfully, today I got to have a much more enjoyable day, continually clicking the […]

¶ Posted 07 April 2017 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Library § Meme § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, economics, education, history, saskatchewan

Does Don Morgan Want You To Go To A Tax Lawyer For Your Divorce? #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries

The Honourable Don Morgan QC has said that combining public libraries and school libraries could be part of the solution to the drastic funding cuts imposed on Saskatchewan public libraries in the recent budget. But Mr. Morgan must know that, just as all lawyers are not the same, all libraries are also not the […]