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Friday Fun Link – The Perfect Five

Every week (or so), The Perfect Five features five songs – one Hyped, one Covered, one Classic, one Remixed and one Loved.  A great place to discover new music.

Posted 03 September 2010 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wikipedia: Lost Functionalities (and The Only Two Sites I’d Miss If I Had To Choose)

This article is a really good summary of some of the things that have been lost in Wikipedia over the years ranging from the ability to solve disputes simply to the ability to do text dumps into an article trusting that someone else will come along and wikify it.

On that note, for anybody interested in a good history of the site, I’d recommend “The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia“.

I was thinking about this the other day and I think that if I had to choose, the only sites I truly couldn’t live without would be Wikipedia and YouTube.  I’d hate to lose Google but there are other search engines out there.  Facebook is handy as sort of a modern address book/party line but again, I think I could survive without it.  I look at Twitter more than I ever did before but it’s still peripheral to much of my Internet use.  Reddit and MetaFilter would probably be the hardest sites to leave behind but there are lots of other aggregators too (although Digg is having one of their annual revolts rights now).

Posted 02 September 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

This Post Doesn’t Exist

On my old blog, whenever I missed posting but felt guilty about it since I try to post on a daily basis, I’d just backdate a post the next day (or whenever I got around to it) and pretend nothing had happened.  Since yesterday was the first time this happened on my new blog, I thought I’d pull back the curtain (as if anybody cares) and admit that’s what’s happening here.

So why did you miss a day, Posty McDailyPosterSon?  Well, I was up at 6am to get ready for some training we were doing at work.  Sat in on the training all day which is always more draining than “regular” work (and usually means a longer than usual day too as it did this day.)

Then Shea had a farewell party for her supervisor so Pace got handed off to me and I was in charge of him for the rest of the evening (at least until she got home around 8pm finding me holding him down in an attempt to get him to sleep!)  I crashed out soon after and my next memory is that beautiful feeling of waking up in the middle of the night and realizing you’ve been asleep for a long time but can still sleep for an equally long time.  Nothing better in this world!

And what’s the big deal with needing to post on a daily basis anyhow?  Let’s just say every librarian has a little bit of Rainman in them and leave it at that! 😉

Posted 01 September 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Library Meeting Rooms: Exempt From Library Values?

If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, it’s probably pretty clear that I’m not a big fan of religion (having an atheist theme for my annual Christmas post is a pretty big clue!)

But as someone who feels just as strongly about the importance of core library values and especially providing access to all types of information that patrons may be interested in, I’ve never understood libraries restricting certain groups from the use of their library meeting rooms.

I mean, okay, some you can understand when the use of that meeting room may put the library in a position of helping to break the law (though I’m not sure I agree with VPL’s decision even if I understand the rationale.  And quite ironically, the assisted suicide meeting ended up being held in…a church!)

But restricting a person or group just because they’d be talking about religion (and even using a book as the basis of that discussion) just seems wrong – no matter what the library policy may be.  It’d also be interesting to look at the library’s collection policy – would they also take a pass on buying a copy of this same book?

Posted 31 August 2010 § Library ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la”

A great Sask-a-zydeco song – Happy Song by Crooked Creek – which is sort of the theme song for one of the best hippie fests around (or at least I think it was when I used to go to this festival every year.  Things are a bit hazy! ;-))

While you’re on that requisite ugly MySpace page, check out “Walk Right In The Door” – another good one for swaying under the stars – with or without a partner!

Posted 30 August 2010 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saccharine Sunday – 90 Days With AIDS

“A woman with AIDS is filmed briefly, every day, for 90 days, and the changes she undergoes are dramatic. The very end may make you weep, but perhaps not for the reasons you expect.”

Aids PSA Topsy from Human Music & Sound Design on Vimeo.

(via MetaFilter)

Posted 29 August 2010 § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Where’s My Cake?

One from the archives.  A cute shot of Pace on his first birthday where he seems to be saying “Where’s my cake?”

Posted 28 August 2010 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Load “$”,8, 1

Commodore is apparently releasing a new computer with modern specs but featuring the old-style casings.

As the C64 was the first computer I worked on *way* back in grade six, I think I may just have to put in a request to Santa Claus!

Here’s a really quick nerd test – do the following two lines of code make you happy?  If so, you’re  a nerd!

10 Print “*”

20 Goto 10

Run

Gotta love it!

Posted 27 August 2010 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

“Daddy, Do You Have A Penis In Your Mouth?”

Now, there are numerous phrases you hope you never hear your child say.  Things like: “Fly, kitty, fly!”  or “Daddy, I made a swimming pool in the hallway.”  (Both of which I’ve heard by the way.)

But Pace might as well stop talking forever because yesterday’s comment is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard him say.  Of course, I didn’t think it was funny when Shea and I were sitting in our living room, watching the news and Pace decided to ask “Daddy, do you have a penis in your mouth?”

I did a very classic double-take and blurted, “WHAT DID YOU SAY?”  He repeated it exactly but since he sometimes mis-speaks, my mind began racing for words that rhyme with penis – “Do I have a weenis in my mouth?  A genus?  A meannus?”  Nope.

I looked over at Shea who was fairly nonchalant about this sudden development, all things considered.

“Did you hear what he just asked me?”

“He asked if you had a penis in your mouth,” she replied as if Pace says these kinds of things on a daily basis.

Again, my mind is racing – what raunchy comedians have I watched lately that he could’ve overheard?  Could some older kid have taught him this at daycare?  Did his cartoon channel accidentally get switched to the gay porn station by someone asleep at the switch? (It happens.)

“Well, any idea where he might’ve got that from?” I asked, only slightly verging on panic at the thought of Pace holding court in the back corner of the daycare playground doing Andrew Dice Clay routines.

“Oh, I know.  The other day he wanted to count my teeth.  Maybe he saw my uvula and thought it was a penis?”

So if you thought the words out of Pace’s mouth were unexpected, I found myself saying a couple phrases I never thought I’d utter:  “Pace, first off, just because something is fleshy and hangs off your body, it doesn’t mean it’s a penis.  That thing in everybody’s mouth is called an uvula.  Second, mommy and daddy are happy that you used the proper name for penis even if you weren’t referring to an actual penis.  And come to think of it, we won’t even get into words that rhyme with uvula right now.  Finally, please don’t ever ask anybody that question again.  Oh, except your grandpa – you can ask him.”

Yep, it’s fun being a parent!

Posted 26 August 2010 § Family ‡ Comments (4) °

Tips for New Managers/Tips for Executive Assistants

Here are two recent AskMetaFilter threads that are somewhat related and have some great suggestions – Tips for New Managers and Tips for Executive Assistants.

Posted 25 August 2010 § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: