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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bailey’s (December 2006)

This is a (very popular) classmate pouring shots of Bailey’s for everyone before our final Genealogy class in library school back in 2006. I think it was a morning class so I don’t know if that makes it better or worse that we were drinking at 8am before class started – it is Bailey’s after […]

¶ Posted 08 December 2016 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario

Top 15 Mannequin Challenges

This is the latest trend for all the kids. That’s cool and all but as a big Beatles fan, I’m especially excited that the song in the background is apparently called “Black Beatles“! 😉

¶ Posted 07 December 2016 § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music, sports, youtube

“Snow’s so merciless, poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/In spite of it all”

Montreal / Montreal.

¶ Posted 06 December 2016 § Canada § MemoryLane § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Music Monday – “I felt like a king on the 25th day/Most precious of gifts returned my gaze/Not seventeen years, in fact less a day/Who dreamed of red flowers surrounding a grave?/Another trip ’round the sun rewinds misery/The whiskey, the tree and me”

I love that the local independent radio station wakes me up every morning and I doubly love when a song penetrates my brain as I switch from sleeping to being awake. Today, this was the song I heard as I dozed between sleep and wake… “The Whiskey, The Tree and Me” – JJ Voss

¶ Posted 05 December 2016 § MusicMonday § Sad § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – LetterKenny Season Two Trailer

Though I never watched the show, I saw a trailer for Season One and thought it was hilarious. The trailer for Season Two is equally good…

¶ Posted 02 December 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ontario, television

The Need to Read: Books Remain One of the Best Ways of Engaging With the World, Becoming A Better Person and Understanding Life’s Questions

This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal which is extra relevant in the post-factual world of Donald Trump (who, just today, is now claiming he not only won the electoral college but also won the popular vote and Hillary only won due to millions of people voting illegally. This is insanely incorrect and therefore, […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2016 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, language

Friday Fun Link – Google’s Infinite Drum Machine

Google has a site where you can create beats using artificial intelligence and everyday sounds. It works for me on mobile but gives an error message on my laptop advising me to use Chrome – which is the browser that I use. But anyhow, even with the weird glitch, wanted to share as it’s a […]

¶ Posted 25 November 2016 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, google, music, science

Music Monday – “Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight was fixed/The poor stay poor/The rich get rich.”

Leonard Cohen is dead and Donald Trump is President-elect. What a strange world we live in. “Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen

¶ Posted 21 November 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents

A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…

¶ Posted 18 November 2016 § Canada § Jobs § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, movies, travel

The Math Behind The Game Spot It!

Sasha and I were playing Spot It! today and it got me thinking how the game manages to have such a vast number of cards and yet there’s always one (and only one) match in the 16 (well, technically 15) symbols shown on any two random cards. (I totally love how the Internet can answer […]