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Saturday Snap – @roryallenmusic with the Hammonds @officialRPL Regent Place “Retro” 50th Anniversary Event

¶ Posted 17 September 2016 § Family § Library § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – @roryallenmusic Promoting @officialRPL Regent 50th “Retro” Party on @ctvreginalive #yqr

Had a blast appearing on CTV Morning Live with Rory Allen tomorrow to promote Regent Place branch’s 50th Anniversary “Retro” Event. The event is going to be totally groovy! Rory will be performing throughout the afternoon (and taking photos and signing autographs when he’s not performing), we’ll have a costume contest, retro snacks (featuring a […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, music, television

Saturday Snap – Me on CBC

Got fairly short notice (just over an hour) invitation from RPL’s Marketing Unit who needed someone to go on CBC Radio’s “Blue Sky” noon hour program to talk about books we’re recommending these days and other topics yesterday. Since I’m a good guy, always eager to help a colleague who’s in a bind plus not uncomfortable […]

¶ Posted 10 September 2016 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, language, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My First Day of Work at Regina Public Library (Sept 8, 2008)

Hard to believe that today is my eight year anniversary of working at Regina Public Library. Our Director even brought me cake. Well, technically donuts. And technically not for me but leftovers from an all-day meeting he was in at our branch. But a guy can pretend, right? 😉 Anyhow, here’s a horrible posed photo […]

¶ Posted 08 September 2016 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “But if I work all day in the blue sky mine/There’ll be food on the table tonight.”

Happy Labour Day! “Blue Sky Mine” – Midnight Oil

¶ Posted 05 September 2016 § Canada § Jobs § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § UK § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Pokemania!

So you have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the new augmented reality map-based game, Pokemon Go!. I first heard about it when it was all over Reddit, soon after its release in early July. I have to be honest – my first reaction was to ignore it as I thought of […]

¶ Posted 19 July 2016 § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, reddit, travel

Friday Fun Link – What The World’s Biggest Sites Looked Like At Launch

This is pretty interesting featuring screenshots of the original version of sites such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. For comparison’s sake, here’s what my very first web page looked like in December 1998 (this isn’t the first page I ever made but the earliest I could find in the Wayback Machine). Crazy to […]

¶ Posted 15 July 2016 § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, google, history, language, twitter, wikipedia

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Writers Guild of Alberta: The First Thirty Years

Saw this posted on Facebook today – a history of the Writers Guild of Alberta’s first 30 years including one passing mention of myself as one of a handful of people who worked as coordinators of the WGA’s Calgary office over the years.

¶ Posted 23 June 2016 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta

~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]