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Category Archives: Wisdom

13 Best Entries from the TL;DR Tumblr Version of Wikipedia

TL;DR means “too long; didn’t read” and is used when you provide a summary of a longer comment or article. A hilarious Tumblr  (now private?) creates TL;DR versions of Wikipedia articles.  Even though the original Tumblr doesn’t appear to be available, Google Images is your friend.  

Posted 23 June 2015 § Humour § Infographic § Internet § List § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some Random Thoughts on /gasp/ PORN! at @officialRPL #yqr

(I don’t usually do disclaimers on my posts but since I work for Regina Public Library and this is a controversial topic for a lot of people, I’ll start off by mentioning that what follows are my personal opinions only and do not reflect those of RPL or anyone else who works at RPL…although given […]

Posted 17 June 2015 § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pace Guest Post: How To Make a Miracle Safe

I couldn’t think of anything to post tonight so I asked Pace if he’d seen anything cool on YouTube lately. This is what he suggested…

Posted 10 June 2015 § Family § Pace § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

25 Genius Camping Hacks

Posted 02 June 2015 § List § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]

Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

20 Simple Ways To Save Money on Groceries

A pretty good list from the Huffington Post.

Posted 26 May 2015 § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – At What Point Does This Become Blasphemous?

Posted 24 May 2015 § Humour § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File Sharing

Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was – is – to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free – simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]

Posted 21 May 2015 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

The Second Job You Don’t Know You Have: How Self-Checkouts, ATMs and Airport Check-Ins are Changing Our Economy

Shadow work [is] all the unpaid jobs we do on behalf of businesses and organizations: We are pumping our own gas, scanning our own groceries, booking our travel and busing our tables at Starbucks. Shadow work is a new concept, so as yet, no one has compiled economic data on how many jobs we, the […]

Posted 20 May 2015 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Calgary’s Michael Ferland Is An Amazing Story #nhl #flames #yyc #stanleycup

Perhaps the most dominate player in the Flames-Canucks series so far, Michael Ferland has an amazing back story as well. “It’s just great,” Hartley said. “We had a great meeting one-on-one a year ago in my office. That’s where it started. I watch those guys like a mother hawk … he opened up and we […]

Posted 19 April 2015 § Sad § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,