…but I kinda wish it was! 😉 Atheism and religion are like two sides of a coin..one prefers to use heads, other relies on tales (This quote was posted to a thread on Quora about favourite atheist jokes.  The actual story of how this site got its name, which I may have told before, is […]
Ended up having a conversation with someone at the library today and the question of what the library is going to look like in twenty years came up. My initial response was “That’s impossible to predict – who in 1993 would’ve predicted the rise of the e-book, DRM, Amazon, Google – and the impact all […]
A great book that is “loaded with librarian appeal” is becoming a movie…
With all the recent books, blog posts and articles about the care and feeding of introverts, I thought this response from an extrovert’s point of view was pretty funny (and true!)
Paul McCartney is well-known as a multi-instrumentalist – proficient on drums, skilled on guitar and keyboard and virtuoso on bass. Â After yesterday’s post about how I used to read rec.music.beatles, I stumbled across an analysis of his bass playing over the years which is quite good. Here’s the end of the article where a few […]
I’ve known for a couple weeks but since I now have a start date, I thought I’d officially announce that I have a new position at RPL. Â As of September 3, I’ll be the new branch head at Regina Public Library’s Regent Place Branch. This is exciting for a number of reasons… Regent is the […]
Stephen Wolfram recently published an analysis of a huge dataset of how people are using Facebook that is extremely fascinating (so fascinating that I wanted to except some of the best parts but didn’t know where to start!) One of the findings was that the most common social structure people tend to have two or […]
Yes parents, most concerns, competitive instincts and crying jags can be allayed if you too decide to practice “Calm the Fuck Down” parenting. 😉 Worried your friend’s child has mastered the alphabet quicker than your child? Calm the f*ck down. Scared you’re not imparting the wisdom your child will need to survive in school and beyond? Calm […]
And a father’s prayer too (especially that part about not lying with drummers)… 😉
GRRM, a producer on the “Game of Thrones” TV show provides a great visual example of why books are almost always so much better than TV/movies. This is a comparison of the artist’s rendering of his vision of The Iron Throne and what they eventually got… [Edit: I’m an idiot – GRRM is an acronym […]
