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Re-live TEDxRegina Through the Magic of Online Streaming Video!

Here’s my personal favourite presentation from TEDxRegina last month. (All the TEDxRegina videos are up but as of right now, and just for me (?), not all eight are showing up when you search for that tag.  But that’s okay because I can hold a few back for later posting!)  

Posted 19 June 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Maybe a lonely man/Who’s in the middle of something/That he doesn’t really understand.”

Happy 70th Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney (or is it?) Some of my personal faves of Sir Macca’s songs through the years with the Beatles, Wings and solo…

Posted 18 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?

Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)

Posted 15 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Shit Sighted People Say To Blind People

I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)

Posted 12 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

Posted 11 June 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“There Are No Words”

Go Kings!

Posted 06 June 2012 § Sad ‡ Comments (0) °

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “6am/Day after Christmas/The smell of cold/Car seat is freezing/The world is sleeping/I am numb”

One of the saddest songs I know…

Posted 04 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I still look for you in crowds/In train stations and bus stops, on sidewalks/In the middle of the night”

As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second.  This is one of my favourite songs of his…

Posted 28 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Sappy Sunday – Lip Dub Wedding Proposal

This one’s pretty sweet…

Posted 27 May 2012 § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,