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50 Years of #yqr Copper Kettle Restaurant

The Copper Kettle is a local institution and I’m proud that one of the times I called over to order pizza for a meeting at the library, I ended up having Mr. Gardikiotis take my order personally. When he heard I was with the library, he replied “Oh, the library! I love the library! You did […]

¶ Posted 18 August 2015 § Library § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

Timmins Library Relents, Allows Girl Into “Boys Only” Robotics Program

The public library in Timmins, Ontario recently tried to offer a “boys only” robotics class but ended up facing a huge backlash (including many female scientists and engineers) after not allowing a girl to register for the program. I understand what the library was trying to do in offering a program focused on reaching boys who tend […]

¶ Posted 08 July 2015 § Library § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, science

Some Random Thoughts on /gasp/ PORN! at @officialRPL #yqr

(I don’t usually do disclaimers on my posts but since I work for Regina Public Library and this is a controversial topic for a lot of people, I’ll start off by mentioning that what follows are my personal opinions only and do not reflect those of RPL or anyone else who works at RPL…although given […]

¶ Posted 17 June 2015 § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, philosophy

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]

¶ Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, facebook, google, reddit, twitter

Hitler Reacts To Alberta NDP Victory

More thoughts later but for now, a laugh or two…

¶ Posted 06 May 2015 § Canada § Humour § Meme § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – But TV polls are super reliable?

CTV Regina hears a giant whoosh sound when querying about the impact of an online petition about Regina city council’s recent decision to refuse a strip club application with their own online poll…

¶ Posted 07 February 2015 § Humour § Infographic § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Regina’s Status As Fly-Over Country Confirmed #yqrcc #yqr

When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”. After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]

¶ Posted 27 January 2015 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, health, saskatchewan

#JeSuisCharlie (And Some Tangents About Language, The Nature of Offense and the Unintended Consequences of Trigger Warnings)

Trigger Warning: This essay contains ideas you might not agree with. You’ve probably heard about the terrorist criminal attack today in Paris that targeted journalists and cartoonists with a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo. Instead of trying to write an essay to capture my thoughts (since The Onion did a pretty good job on that front already), I’ll […]