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What Two Famous People Were Alive At The Same Time That Would Surprise People

Charlie Chaplin and 50 Cent. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died. Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were the same age. More…

Posted 11 March 2015 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Funniest Moments During Our Trip To The Dominican Republic

Before the trip, Pace and I kept playing The List Game (“Name five things you’re going to do on the beach”, “Name five things you’re going to eat at the buffet”, “Name five things you’ll do on the plane”) and that’s continued after our return home. Tonight, we (okay, mostly *I* since the things Pace remembered […]

Posted 10 March 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Secular Sunday – 40 Best Atheist Arguments

Worth reading.

Posted 08 March 2015 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

101 Things That Make Me Happy

In completely random order… Sasha Pace Shea The Flames Kicking Ass This Year Tropical Holidays Helping People With Technology Problems at the Library Our Dozen or So Young Regulars Who Hang At the Library Craft Beer iPhones and Knowing That I Have A Device in My Pocket More Powerful Than The Computers That Sent A […]

Posted 03 February 2015 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

First Lines From My First Blog Post Of Each Month in 2014

January – “So why are both kids still up (and apparently making a break for it???)” February – “SaskTel was out to Regent Place a couple weeks ago to shoot a storytime for their video magazine.” March – “I sometimes think the only reason we have kids is to teach them cute tricks.” April – […]

Posted 30 December 2014 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 10 Random Thoughts About Christmas This Year

At our house, Santa doesn’t wrap the presents.  This provides a few main advantages – makes things quicker to get set-up if you haven’t pre-wrapped the gifts, prevents awkward “Why does Santa use the same wrapping paper as mommy and daddy?” questions, and allows the kids to get an immediate jolt when they first glimpse […]

Posted 26 December 2014 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Pace § Randomness § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

SparkleTour.ca #yqr #saskatchewan #yxe #moosejaw #princealbert

[Edit: Yikes! When I posted this, didn’t realize there was a mini-controversy about a local radio station stealing the name and data from the original Sparkletour web site. Bah-humbug!] It’s now less than a month to Christmas. Sparkletour.ca helps you get into the spirit of the season with an ever-growing list of houses worth checking […]

Posted 26 November 2014 § Internet § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – The World’s Most Contagious MythConceptions

These are 52 wildly held beliefs that also happen to be completely wrong. How many did you think were true?  (I’ll admit that I thought about a dozen of these were true – I’m just not going to admit which ones!) 😉

Posted 14 November 2014 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Meme § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Library Web Sites Worth Looking At

A few good suggestions here for what’s current in library web design.

Posted 04 November 2014 § Internet § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies

Boo!

Posted 28 October 2014 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: