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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – St. Patrick’s Day (March 2015)

That’s a pretty tiny Guinness?  Also not sure why but this is one of my favourite photos of myself of all-time…

Posted 17 March 2022 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Article Round Up (End of the World Edition)

What You’re Feeling Isn’t A Vibe Shift, It’s A Permanent Change


That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief


Mental Health Emerges As Top Concern For Canadian Employers Worried About Workers’ Low Grade Trauma From The Pandemic

Uhm, Happy St. Patrick’s Day?

Posted 17 March 2022 § Family § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Flames Acquire Calle Jarnkrok

Flames are having an amazing season and are going for it as they flesh out their line-up heading towards the playoffs…

 

Posted 16 March 2022 § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

New Brunswick Lifts All Covid-19 Restrictions For Second Time, Hopes For Different Outcome

From the “Great Headlines of History” file…

Posted 15 March 2022 § Canada § Humour § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Two of us sending postcards/Writing letters on my wall/You and me burning matches/Lifting latches on our way back home”

“Two of Us” – Lake Street Dive

Posted 14 March 2022 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The World’s Longest Waterslide (And Some Thoughts on Zen Videos, Feelings of Melancholy and Modern Technology)

There’s something very zen about watching a video of someone going down the Guinness World Record Holding world’s longest waterslide which snakes through a jungle in Malaysia (some feel that the slowness of the slide is a negative but I disagree.)

At the same time, there’s also something melancholy about thinking about how vast our world is and how many amazing, interesting, unusual things there are to see and do around the entire world but how, even if you were wealthy and single and had unlimited time, you could only touch on a small fraction of those experiences.

I guess the flip side of that is that we’re so fortunate to live in a time where technology allows you to sit in your living room anywhere in the world and enjoy the ride for a few minutes, even if only virtually…

Posted 13 March 2022 § Internet § Randomness § Sad § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – A Gift of Oranges

Sasha had permission to invite a friend over to watch a movie this afternoon and somehow that grew to five girls showing up today to watch movies, eat pizza, and hang out for a few hours. (We approved this but also chuckled at how it snowballed!)

We’ve been (mostly) careful through all of Covid but we’re also conscious of the impact that’s had on our kids (and all kids really.)

It wasn’t a birthday party for Sasha today (that’s next month) but it sort of felt like it a bit as we are conscious that Sasha has foregone what would normally be two pretty fun, memorable childhood birthdays (both her seventh and eighth were celebrated in quarantine due to Covid)

No one brought wrapped presents (again, not actually a birthday) but we were surprised that every single one brought something – chocolates, cookies, candy and one who brought oranges which felt especially fitting as we pass the two year anniversary of Covid being declared a worldwide pandemic as they’re a gift of good luck and warding off evil spirits in Asian cultures.

Posted 12 March 2022 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Bandaloop Takes Flight – Dancing on a Skyscraper

 

Posted 11 March 2022 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian.

One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA.

As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the country (just kidding – I think?) wasn’t enough pressure, I got to do my presentation along with highly engaging academic librarian named John Fink and well-known librarian speaker and activist, Jessamyn West.

My presentation’s conceit, such as it was, was talking about how I used common technologies of the day (RSS!  Wikis!) versus how the library that employed me used them (sorry, formatting is a bit off in the Slideshare below.)

As I said, my co-presenters were intimidating.

But the most intimidating part of the presentation?

Since it was the Emerging Tech group, it felt like *nobody* in the room watched my presentation – instead, everybody had their laptop open and was actively liveblogging, tweeting or adding to a conference wiki!

Good times…

Posted 10 March 2022 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Heardle

There are literally hundreds of Wordle variations but Heardle, which plays increasingly longer snippets of a song as you try to get the track name and artist, is one of the most unique I’ve found.

Posted 09 March 2022 § Internet § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: