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Category Archives: Wisdom

Saturday Snap – “Saturday Steak”

One trick I picked up about bbqing steak is to finish them by propping them up on their sides. Yum!

¶ Posted 28 June 2014 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, science

After One Year As a Parent, One Thing is Certain…

(full comic available here and worth the click)

¶ Posted 25 June 2014 § Baby § Family § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Friday Fun Link – You’re Getting Old

Great site to show you a bunch of details and trivia based on how old you are.

¶ Posted 20 June 2014 § FridayFunLink § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history

In One Or Two Sentences, Why Are You An Atheist?

Recently Reddit’s /r/atheism sub-reddit had a question asking users for a one or two sentence explanation for why they’re atheists. I’ve got a lot of reasons but my own two-sentence answer would be something like this: When I was a kid, my friend and I were really into Greek mythology. He pointed out that the […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2014 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: atheism, history, language, philosophy

“Some Reasons” Redux… (aka Happy Father’s Day To My Dad!)

Five years ago on my dad’s 65th birthday, I posted a list of some of the many reasons I loved him – fond memories, funny memories, ways he’s helped me grow into the person I’ve become. It was probably the most personal thing I’ve ever posted to this blog. And since dad turned 70 this […]

¶ Posted 15 June 2014 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link – A Few Links About The World Cup of Soccer

* Jon Oliver on the mixed emotions football fans feel towards a game that’s more like a religion for most of them and the corrupt body that oversees the quadrennial tournament… * Twitter has enabled graphic hashtags of national flags for the World Cup. * Brazil’s inequality summed up in one stark football-related – although […]

¶ Posted 14 June 2014 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2014 § Censorship § Infographic § Jobs § Library § List § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, health, history, music, philosophy, saskatchewan, science

Librarian Privilege?

So the concept of privilege has been on my mind lately. Thanks to the kind (and kind of) folks on my Facebook feed, I’ve been regularly sent articles about “white privilege“, “male privilege“, “heterosexual privilege” (uhm, for anyone keeping count, I get to tick the box for all three…plus most other types of privilege out […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2014 § Library § LibrarySchool § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: economics, language

Solar Panels Could Replace Pavement on Highways and Roads

Yes, please!

¶ Posted 29 May 2014 § Politics § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, science, travel

My Book Themed Interview

I saw an interview with author, Joshua Ferris, in a recent Entertainment Weekly and thought the series of book-themed questions they asked would be fun to answer for myself… Your Favourite Book As a Child “Child” usually means someone quite young but honestly, the first book to come to mind when I read this question […]