You love celebrity gossip, admit it. And when I need my fix, I visit What Would Tyler Durden Do (wwtdd.com) which has some of the funniest snarky comments you'll find on the Internet (that's a pretty high bar right there!) A recent post about the “celebrity” mother of the octuplets in California caught my eye […]
My hometown served as a backdrop for many of the exterior shots of the CBC comedy, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (Saskatchewan has a film tax credit that gives incentives for productions to shoot here and increases the benefit if you shoot a certain distance outside our cities. Indian Head is just outside this zone, […]
Pick five words to describe me then compare your answers to other people. (via Cenobyte who is witty, loving, religious, cheerful and self-assertive among many other things.)
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If I had to pick a single song to define my time as an undergrad, it would likely be this one. The song only took on more relevance after I went to York, England in 1995 for a four-month exchange. I post it today in honour of Chris McG., one of the American exchange students […]
A Newsweek story focusing on the different cultures of banks in the US and Canada and what that's meant for each country's respective economic situation.(via Reddit)
The title of this site is perhaps a bit misleading, especially for us library types. So I'll let the original poster on MetaFilter take it away… “DeweyMusic makes browsing archive.org's Live Music Archive super easy.”(For anybody who doesn't know about Archive.org, I'd suggest reading its Wikipedia page or watching a talk given by the site's […]
“How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb?”“I don't know but I can look it up for you…”(One of our maintenance guys told me this one today. Of course, I immediately tried to come up with a “How many maintenance guys does it take to look something up in the ready reference […]
I've got Web 2.0 on the brain lately. After former FIMS classmate and current RPL colleague Trudi S. gave a very well-received “Introduction to Web 2.0” session for a mixture of staff members from across the RPL system, I was asked by one of our branch heads if I could repeat this training for them […]
The role of management is to do what's in the best interest of the organization.The role of the union is to do what's in the best interest of the people who make up its membership.Union members are expected to adhere to the rules and duties described in the union contract and their job description.Professional librarians […]
