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Category Archives: Wisdom

How Pro Wrestling Prepared Me For The 21st Century

As I may have mentioned on this blog before, I grew up watching professional wrestling. When I was around 7 or 8 years old, it was pretty amazing to see heavily-muscled, fantastically-named guys like the super-heroes I read about in comic books – whether good guys (The Dynamite Kid) or bad (The Mongolian Stomper, The […]

Posted 12 March 2014 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Reddit’s Top 10 Most Saved Comments

Today, Reddit had an official blog post about their “Gold” program where you can either buy an annual membership or “gild” someone with gold for one-off comments and now posts.  Gold members (like myself) get added benefits on the site including the ability to save comments and as part of their blog post, they listed […]

Posted 04 March 2014 § Internet § List § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Why Libraries Deserve To Be Hip

A mother explains the value of libraries to her and her family. I like being among the people who come to my branch for English language classes, the retirees who sit and read the newspaper, the rowdy kids who are killing time before they go home, and moms of young children reading their tots Ezra […]

Posted 02 March 2014 § Library § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Milestones of Your Little Rocket Scientist

(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

Posted 27 February 2014 § Baby § Infographic § List § Pace § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Correlation Between Unionization and Poverty Rates Around the World

(h/t to MF on FB)

Posted 23 January 2014 § Canada § Infographic § Jobs § Politics § UK § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Where people drown and people serve/Don’t be shy, your just desserts/Is only just light years to go”

I must’ve posted this as a Music Monday link (or just as a blog post generally) at some point in the past since I consider it the single greatest song ever written. But for that reason, you can never hear it enough and so here it is again… “Find The River” – R.E.M.

Posted 20 January 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

16 Fancy Literary Techniques Demonstrated By Disney

Just what the post’s title says.

Posted 19 January 2014 § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Copyrighted Books For Free, Legally! (Offer Only Good in Norway)

On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]

Posted 17 January 2014 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

About That Future…

Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come…  10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time

Posted 12 January 2014 § Infographic § Internet § List § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

MyGutTellsMe.com

When I was in library school, one of the things that happened at the start of each semester was a mixer with current students and the new crop of future librarians. I remember one of these sessions on the patio of the Grad Club when I ended up sitting next to Barb Janicek. She struck […]

Posted 08 January 2014 § Blog § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,