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Saturday Snap – File Under “Other”
Management is having staff at my library do a week-long “Activity Assessment” project where all staff have to record what they’re doing every five minutes of their shifts.
Now if I could just figure out where “Boost Patron’s Truck” is on their report form? 😉 
Friday Fun Link – The World’s Most Contagious MythConceptions
These are 52 wildly held beliefs that also happen to be completely wrong.
How many did you think were true? (I’ll admit that I thought about a dozen of these were true – I’m just not going to admit which ones!) 😉
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – First Pic on Shea’s New iPhone 6+
Not going back very far with this one, maybe a week or so?
Happy Singles Day!
Originally started by Chinese university students as an anti-Valentines Day where single people were encouraged to buy themselves gifts, “Singles Day” on November 11 (11/11) has exploded in popularity over the past five years to become China’s equivalent of Black Friday with their Amazon/eBay clone, Alibaba, leading the charge.
I heard about it last year but forgot about it until I hit Alibaba’s small order specialty store, AliExpress, looking for cheap chargers for Shea’s new iPhone 6. Most items on the site were 15-50% off for Singles Day and they also offered a further 10% if you ordered $100 worth of stuff.
So a few toys and trinkets later, I’ve got a head start on my Christmas shopping, a weird connection to a unique holiday in a foreign culture, and a nagging sense of guilt at promoting globalization/Chinese totalitarianism/junk culture. 🙁
[Edit: Here’s an interesting recap from AliExpress.]
Music Monday – “And I know that by February/My thoughts on snow may be contrary/But this is now/And then is then.”
This is another annual tradition on this blog.
I’m fudging a bit this year as the snow fell overnight from Monday to Tuesday but since it fits better as a Music Monday post, here’s my annual post of one of my favourite Hawksley Workman songs posted on a Tuesday but dated for Monday! 😉
“First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman
What Book Publishers Can Learn From Luxury Brands
Here’s an interesting argument from the Globe & Mail that book publishers hurt themselves right out of the gate by allowing retailers to set the terms (discounts, merchandising, etc.) by which their books – even the high-demand latest releases – are sold.
It goes on to say that publishers should act like luxury good brands – Prada, Gucci, etc. – who don’t sell products as much as selling dreams and ideas, image and lifestyles.
Saturday Snap – Santa Tractor
Pace’s first “big” word was “tractor” and we were so impressed, we bought a Christmas yard decoration that year to commemorate the milestone he’d reached earlier that year.
Now I’ve set it up for Sasha and guess which word she repeated back to us today? Yep…
Friday Fun Link – Book With No Pictures
One of those “Why didn’t I think of that ?” ideas.
So clever…
