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Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”

We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]

Posted 04 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2011 Havana Book Fair Tour for Librarians, Writers and Bibliophiles

I missed it this year but I think it’s an annual event so maybe I’ll get to the Havana International Book Fair someday?

Posted 20 March 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

And Now A Message From Shane MacGowan…

…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.”  (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.

Posted 17 March 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Cuba Montage

Here’s a few more photos from our trip, set to one of Cuba’s most popular songs…

Posted 12 March 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Our Cuba Vacation (Before & After)

Posted 11 March 2011 § Family ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Justin Bieber: Canadian Statesman?

No, that post title is not a joke.  (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber and his recent rise to stardom fascinating. There’s the fact that he’s from Woodstock, ON, just down the road from London.  [Edit: I’m obviously not *that* fascinated […]

Posted 16 February 2011 § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player.  That eventually happened in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat the greatest Grandmaster of all-time Garry Kasparov (of course, computers had been beating inferior players for much longer – including ChessMaster 3000 […]

Posted 15 February 2011 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Yorkton to Regina in Five Minutes

A guy I went to elementary school with posted this time lapse video of the drive from Yorkton, SK to Regina, SK.  Normally about a two hour drive, this video condenses the trip to five minutes (and every time he passes a car will make you feel like you’re on a highway in Mexico for […]

Posted 04 February 2011 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Making Stairs Fun

It’s no secret that I’m interested in the role of “fun” – fun at work, fun at home, fun in life – not just because fun is, well, FUN! but because I strongly believe it has a real impact on how people work, live and interact. One timely example comes from the National Family Literacy […]

Posted 28 January 2011 § FridayFunLink § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – The Nerd Is Strong With This One

Saturday Snap – 1988 Computer Specs, originally uploaded by headtale. My mom was cleaning out some papers at home and found the original spec sheet/packing slip for the first computer our family ever bought in 1988 which is when I was in grade nine. It doesn’t have the actual price mom and dad paid but […]

Posted 15 January 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap § Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,