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Category Archives: Wisdom

Celebrating Some @ryanMeili #skndpldr Firsts on the First Day of 2013

As he did in 2009, Ryan Meili is once again spearheading an extremely innovative leadership campaign that has all kinds of potential to change the way politics are done in Saskatchewan. Here are just a few examples of Meili “Firsts” in the current campaign… First candidate to use a mobile-friendly domain hack for his web […]

Posted 01 January 2013 § Meme § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

First Lines from Each Month of My 2012 Blog Posts

  January – “I’ve made no secret of my love of lists and how this is the best time of the year for lists.” February – “I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.” March – “My prediction?  This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all.” April – “I’ve done some […]

Posted 30 December 2012 § Blog § Internet § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Which Book Made The Most “Best of” Lists in 2012?

This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists?  (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!)  Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad! In my own […]

Posted 27 December 2012 § Library § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wrapper’s Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper

From The Atlantic.

Posted 26 December 2012 § Randomness § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Censorship § Humour § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds.  Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, […]

Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § Meme § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Sometimes I Really Miss Calgary

Like when I read articles like this one where I know the business and most people in the article including Greg and Simone. Side note – I’ve long advocated that libraries should integrate the same type of question that Pages bookstore asks all their new applicants.

Posted 13 December 2012 § Canada § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Sappy Sunday – The Saddest Christmas Song Ever?

A lot of comments about his one in a recent MetaFilter thread about sad Christmas movies, TV & music.

Posted 09 December 2012 § PopCulture § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

My Real Role on Team Meili… #skndpldr

…is to come up with ideas that are the “first of a kind”. Last time, it was the idea for the Money Bomb (see #3 on the linked list) which was the first ever in Canadian politics. This time, it was putting forward the idea for a Reddit AMA which was the first ever by a Saskatchewan politician. Of […]

Posted 04 December 2012 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,