Vulture magazine ranks the best Stephen King works from 62 to 1. I’ve read a lot of Stephen King but not much of the recent stuff. But King will always have a soft spot in my heart because of how many of my non-reader friends would still devour everything he wrote. My only quibble […]
I’ve had a few worried e-mails from people who saw that the page with my collection of Fred Eaglesmith tabs has disappeared. The reason is that I have begun the process of transferring my old blog to a new host. As part of that process, the sub-content of my old site which was hosted on […]
Unfortunately, a lot of the Top 10 dying industries have a direct connection to libraries whether it’s DVD’s, newspapers or recordable media. On the other hand, a lot of the Top 10 booming industries don’t – unless libraries want to start building solar panels or hot sauces (!).
Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]
A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are. (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page. So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)
I’m not much of a math nerd. And I admit that stats in library school gave me cold sweats. But this Hunger Games Survival Analysis is pretty cool. (via MetaFilter)
Rosemary Griebel who I met when I worked at the Writers Guild of Alberta (and who later wrote me a kick-ass reference letter when I applied to library school) is getting some huge props for her first poetry collection. My former library school classmate, Corey Redekop, will soon have his second novel published. Last but […]
Back from a couple days in Minot, ND and some random thoughts about my use/mis-use of technology while there… – first thing I did upon hitting our hotel room was load up Pandora. Or at least I tried to – both the iPhone and iPad apparently still recognized I had a Canadian iTunes account and […]
A great defence of the freedom to read by my favourite author when a North Dakota community burns his book. More at MetaFilter. In completely unrelated news, we’re off to Minot, ND for a weekend of water slides, shopping and America-only treats like Pandora and Cherry Coke. 😉
So it’s not a secret that a big part of the booming Saskatchewan economy is due to our massive non-renewable sector – potash and oil mainly but also natural gas and other similar resources at the expense of developing the renewable industry in any meaningful fashion. When we say “renewables”, most people think of things […]
