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Category Archives: Saskatchewan

Regina: Infinite Horizons

The City of Regina announced a new marketing campaign/brand/slogan earlier this week – “Regina: Infinite Horizons“.  As you'd expect for anything like this, reaction was mixed with some people (eg. the mayor) loving it and some people (everybody else) hating it.  I gotta admit – I kinda like it.  I like the Web 2.0-y logo.  […]

Posted 12 February 2010 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

What Is The Most Physically Beautiful Book You Own?

Not sure what my personal answer would be – maybe the print version of the Encylopedia of Saskatchewan?   It's a massive book that's beautifully designed with tons of photos, charts and highly readable entries.  Great for browsing.  (via Reddit)

Posted 11 February 2010 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

If I Knew Google Was Dropping By…

…I would've cut the grass! View Larger Map And my workplace – Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left… View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more.  Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley.  (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the […]

Posted 09 February 2010 § Internet § Main Page § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – RPL Joins SILS (from local CTV station)

Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube.  Sorry for the crappy sound…

Posted 07 February 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Regina Public Library Joins SILS

Today was the big day when RPL joined three other library systems within the province who had already gone live as part of a province-wide library system called the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services consortium (SILS).  By the end of the year, SILS will be comprised of a total of ten library systems covering the […]

Posted 03 February 2010 § Library § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Fuck This Weather (January 8, 2010)

Appropriate for the first FFL of 2010 on a day where the mercury dropped to -48 with windchill (aka “hmmm, I did not realise that you could get frostbite there.”)

Posted 09 January 2010 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Sparkle Tour Highlight

This home was one of the highlights of our sparkle tour in my hometown tonight.  (We're having Early Christmas with my parents this weekend then going to Shea's parents' for the actual day.)

Posted 20 December 2009 § Main Page § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Regina Public Library Upgrading to New System

The launch of the province-wide library system, SILS, is getting more and more media attention with Saskatoon being the first system to go live next week.  Here's an article from our local daily newspaper about the new arrangement.   Not sure if I mentioned this before but I think that with over 300 branches involved across […]

Posted 13 December 2009 § Library § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

I Have Never Seen…

…a sporting championship won by a team that was behind the ENTIRE game and THEN, won on a horrible penalty AFTER the game was over due to a missed last second point score attempt.  I mean, after Montreal's missed field goal, everyone at our house stood up and exchanged hugs, thinking the game was over, […]

Posted 30 November 2009 § Main Page § Sports ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Where Did the Watermelon Helmet Tradition Come From? (Go Riders Go!)

A colleague brought this to work on Friday then got snaps of a bunch of the staff trying it on. I'm a Rider fan but gotta say this was a first for me!  (Here's a history of the watermelon helmet from TSN.)

Posted 28 November 2009 § Main Page § SaturdaySnap § Sports § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) °