With only a couple days left, if you want a nice break from the non-stop US election coverage, why not check out “Undecided: The Movie” on Netflix?
This hilarious mockumentary follows two “undecided voters” as they interact with various candidates and try to decide who to support.
Shot with the actual US election campaign as a backdrop, this movie is not only very funny but also reveals how easily both campaigns and the media can be manipulated.
At RPL’s annual Staff Development Day today (okay, yesterday since I’m posting this on Saturday), they were demoing a new Virtual Reality accessory the library recently purchased.
This was the Playstation 4 version, not the more well-known Oculus Rift headset that, in many ways, began the popularization of virtual reality devices for home users.
It felt pretty seamless for me (other than it losing track of me a couple times for some reason) but a lot of bystanders had a good laugh at another co-worker who screamed, ducked and flinched as she played the “highway luge” game where you slide down a highway as vehicles rush towards you! 😉
Anyhow, my branch now has a 3D Printer and a patron recently asked the obvious question: “Why?”
I answered that the library has always been about providing access to things that people didn’t have – in our earliest days, we provided books when they weren’t easily available but as new technologies have come along – CD’s & DVD’s, computers and the Internet, and on to video gaming systems and now cutting edge technologies like 3D Printers and VR – the library has always been one of the first places that citizens are exposed to the latest and greatest before they become more affordable or accessible for the home user.
At the annual RPL Staff Development Day in 2011, I had to do an activity with my co-workers where we listed some of the successes of the HR Unit where I was working at the time.
Of course, I’d found out a couple weeks earlier that my position as Organization Development Specialist was being eliminated – which is a move that I guess was technically a success for the Unit.
Awkward! 😉
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I don’t follow baseball as closely as I used to but I always love sports stories like this – the Chicago Cubs, perennial losers who may have been cursed, finally won the World Series after 108 years in a very exciting game that went to extra innings (or so I hear – I didn’t watch it live.)
Pictured above is the Cubs player who threw the final out – and can’t stop smiling as he makes the play!
Did I ever post this before? So much cuteness – the dad singing with his daughter to keep her from being scared of fireworks, the daughter keeping thinking she hears them, her ragtime voice at the end, how the dad ducks behind her as the song ends so the camera focuses purely on his daughter among many other moments…
When this video debuted in 1983, I was ten years old. I stayed up late on a Friday night to watch it with my Aunt Sandi on Good Rockin’ Tonight (which has a strange Regina connection.)
I think I made it through about two minutes before I started crapping my pants and hiding my head under a blanket on the couch.
I just showed it to nine year old Pace and he watched it, half-bored, reminding me that Call of Duty has a mode that lets you shoot zombies and maybe the people in the video should’ve played more video games.
Sure, maybe it hasn’t held up so well but still…kids these days! <sigh>
“Thriller” – Michael Jackson
I’m probably speaking too soon but after my blog has been crashing on a near daily basis for way too long, I finally got around to trying the obvious fix.
Earlier this weekend, I disabled all my various plug-ins and have been slowly re-activating them one-by-one to see if I can figure out if there’s one specific one that keeps crashing my site.
So far, so good – the site has gone nearly a 48-hours without crashing and probably half of the plug-ins are back in place.
Of course the obvious cause of a blog regularly crashing – daily hits that far exceed all planned traffic and contingency plans – has already been ruled out.
But still, thanks to those seventeen dedicated readers who come by every day for sticking with this blog, even with the recent hiccups! 😉
Everyone else is sharing their memories of Taylor Field today so I thought I’d share a few of mine…
Saskatoon’s just defeated mayor missed the Gay Pride parade during his thirteen years in the Mayor’s Chair (no matter his personal feelings, he obviously missed the memo about representing all citizens of his city.)
Anyhow, I get the impression Saskatoon’s new mayor won’t miss the parade…
