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Category Archives: Wisdom

Friday Fun Link – How Long Would It Take To Hack Your Password?

You don’t have to submit your password – just type it into the box on this site and it will tell you how long it would take a computer to guess it. If you’re nervous about testing your own passwords, use something similar eg. instead of “password”, use “massward” or whatever.)

¶ Posted 30 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language

RIP Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940-2021

PICTURES OF THE DEAD (from “Dark Halo”) The dead leave us only images of themselves: souvenirs in washed out colours, dried petals pressed in family albums, shadows that stain our papered walls. They abandon us in our rooms, teach us how to converse with dust, will not let us forget them. But in our glistening reeds […]

¶ Posted 25 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: alberta, book, economics, language, ontario, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – The Dangers of Religious Misinformation Around Covid Vaccines

¶ Posted 18 April 2021 § SecularSunday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, Covid, education, health

Friday Fun Link – The Jeopardy Archive

A comprehensive archive of every question ever in the history of Jeopardy is nerd-paradise. (Librarians are 14th in lifetime winnings by career-type though I’d like to see this graph on a per capita basis too.)

¶ Posted 16 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, television

Secular Sunday – No, Jesus Wasn’t White

¶ Posted 11 April 2021 § Humour § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy

Secular Sunday – The Cost of Religion in Canada

A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.

¶ Posted 04 April 2021 § Canada § Infographic § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, education, history, science

Exponential Growth: A Commonsense Explanation

When something is going through exponential growth, even in the early stages, most people completely underestimate how quickly things are going to change, even when the exponential growth has been going on for quite a while. Some humans are really bad at understanding math.

¶ Posted 24 March 2021 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, saskatchewan, science

Leadership

¶ Posted 23 March 2021 § Infographic § Jobs § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, philosophy, saskatchewan

Why No Aquarium Has A Great White Shark

Random Sunday afternoon YouTube algorithm finds…both interesting and sad:

¶ Posted 21 March 2021 § Randomness § Technology § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, science, unitedstates

The Roud Folk Song Index

Doing some quick research about yesterday’s post led to me to discover the Roud Folk Song Index which I don’t think I’d heard of before but which reminds me once again (as if I need reminding!), why librarians and archivists are so vital to society (and also interesting, witty and funny!): The Roud Folk Song […]