Pace is two and a half now and so I thought it’d be fun to do a list of the books I like to read him at bedtime (note: these are *my* favourites to read. His favourites list would include: “That book about diggers”, “That book about fire trucks”, “That book about tractors” and “That […]
Got the cast off today so I typed a big, long entry with various thoughts on the experience. But Firefox crashed just as I was about to post it so this is what you get instead…
Well, the noughties aren’t quite over but that hasn’t stopped various “Best of the Decade” lists from starting to appear including this one of the Top 50 Books of the 2000’s (including some mini-essays on some of the most notable ones.)
I attended the Saskatchewan Book Awards last Saturday night and since it was the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that first got me involved with that organization, I thought this would be a good time to post the third part of a series I’m doing on the main things I learned from the various jobs I’ve held […]
Because who wouldn’t pay one grand for a single graphic of a red diamond that doesn’t do anything else except prove that you have too much money?
AskMetaFilter has a page which lists their all-time most “Favourited” questions (warning: do not click unless you have a LOT of time to waste!) Interesting that the most favourited question – “What Book Is The Single Best Introduction To Your Field For The Layperson” – has nearly twice as many favourites (~1141) than the next […]
Shea posted a hilarious anti-breastfeeding article pro-Nestle Fake Milk Formula to her Facebook status with the usual heavy response to anytime this type of topic comes up – from both pro-breastfeeding moms and those who weren’t able to or aren’t as worked up about the prevalance of formula in our society. It made me think, […]
I came across this site from 2003 where the BBC Radio 2 sponsored a contest to pick the UK’s 200 best loved novels. Lots of familiar names on the Top 21 and I wonder if this contest was the origin of the “Canada Reads”-type events that have proliferated where one community/region/nation chooses a single book […]
Today is the one year anniversary of my starting at RPL (an occasion so auspicious, I commemorated it by posting a link to an album of mellowed-out cover versions of the Footloose soundtrack on this day one year ago!). Still, this last year has gone in a flash and it’s hard to believe it’s been […]
A web site called BachelorsDegreesOnline.com has posted a list of 100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future and guess who’s #100? Yep, that’s me! I guess if I’m not #1, #100 isn’t a bad spot to be in terms of where you’ll get noticed – especially in a list that long. They gave me […]
