Category Archives: List

28 Books You Should Read (If You Want To)

I’m probably one of the worst people for loving all of those “50 Books To Read Before You Die”, “10 Books Every Child Should Read”, “17 Books for a Summer Holiday” lists. I mean, they *do* comprise two of my most favouritist things in the world – books and lists. However, I think this list […]

Sasha vs. Pace At The (Almost) One Year Mark

Pace didn’t leave our sight for the first year of his life. Shea found me in the garage a day after we brought Sasha home.  “Uhm, where did you leave the baby?”  (She was in her crib sleeping.) Pace only ate healthy, nutritious, homemade food. When Sasha finds crumbs or dropped Cheerios on the ground, […]

Reddit’s Top 10 Most Saved Comments

Today, Reddit had an official blog post about their “Gold” program where you can either buy an annual membership or “gild” someone with gold for one-off comments and now posts.  Gold members (like myself) get added benefits on the site including the ability to save comments and as part of their blog post, they listed […]

The Milestones of Your Little Rocket Scientist

(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

Some Ways Public Libraries Should Be Like Apple Stores (and One Way They Shouldn’t)

Back from a week in Edmonton (well, “a week in the West Edmonton Mall” would be more accurate!) During the week, I took advantage of being in a city with an Apple Store to visit the Genius Bar and get some help with a few different questions I had about my laptop and iPhone. (Unfortunately, […]

10 Reasons Canada Has Already Won The Sochi Olympics

A great list from Buzzfeed summarizing some of many Canada’s successes – in competition and beyond – at the Winter Olympics.

Good Luck in the Super Bowl @jonryan9 #yqr #sb48

Saskatchewan’s been buzzing for the last couple weeks after the Seattle Seahawks qualified to go the Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos. Usually Saskatchewan football fans are focused on a team wearing a different shade of green and the NFL isn’t as popular as the Canadian Football League for most people. But this game has special […]

The Greatest Software Misuses

Quora has a great question about the best software mis-uses that people have seen. Because my family members read this blog, I won’t mention some that I’ve seen personally (ahem, Googling for a common web site instead of just typing it in the URL bar.  You know who you are!) but I will highlight a […]

A Day in the Life of a Branch Librarian

About once a week I work a 10-6 shift instead of a more typical 9-5 one.  With one staff member on holidays and one having called in sick, today happened to be particularly busy day starting as soon as I arrived, an hour later than usual. So I thought I’d do a list of a […]

16 Fancy Literary Techniques Demonstrated By Disney

Just what the post’s title says.