This is pretty funny and also somewhat groundbreaking. (I'm sure some other entertainment entity has put everything they own the rights to up on YouTube by now, haven't they?)
Choice quote: “Just my two cents, but I think there are always open HR positions
because HR people are batshit crazy. Take an informal survey of anyone
you know who has to deal with an HR department on a regular basis, and
I suspect they'll agree.”
Did I mention that my position is located within our library's HR department?
I don't know if anybody pays attention to my keywords/categories but on that note, I have one for “work” and one for “jobs”. In my head, “work” refers to posts relating to actual jobs I've held whereas “jobs” is meant to refer to things about anything relating to the wider working world. And if you're confused, just be aware that I usually use both tags just to be safe!
RPL is bringing in Kathy Reid Naiman for some workshops and the most excellent local storyteller, Kevin MacKenzie is taking the opportunity of Ms. Naiman's presence in the Queen City to offer some workshops for non-library folks. If you are involved with children as a teacher, a librarian, a daycare worker or even as a plain old parent, I would HIGHLY recommend attending this workshop. I have heard rave reviews and think the workshops will be most excellentay!
Eco-libris is a site where you can pay to have one tree planted for every book that you've read (or bought or whatever “balance” you want to create.) The cost is just under $1 per book – a small price to pay (er, not that I will be anytime soon but the concept has lots of appeal anyhow. Er, maybe after Christmas!)
That's probably the tack I'd try to take – that spending this money might result in increased good will which leads to increased usage which leads to all manner of good things. But if I'm a board member, my counter argument is that the library is already very environmentally friendly by virtue of the fact that it allows a single purchased book to be used by dozens of people over its lifetime. As I said, an interesting question…
To me a spoiler is revealing a secret or an unexpected twist. Some of these are not spoilers (“The Ducks win”? “Meg Ryan ends up with Tom Hanks”? No shit – haven't you ever seen a Hollywood movie before?). But the idea's still fun.
I came up with the moniker “Head Tale” when I had a freelance consulting company doing web site design back in the late 1990's. I liked that the name connoted a few different things including the luck of a coin flip, telling stories, and my hometown of Indian Head. (Okay, and I also liked that some people might read it as a double entendre! )
I know I didn't start using it as my online handle until after 2001 because that's the year I joined MetaFilter and I still dislike that I used my boring college nickname “Jaybo” there. But anyhow, that's all a long preamble to introducing this site which allows you to check whether your name is taken at various popular online web sites.
It's hard to believe that I've been writing this blog on a nearly daily basis for what, two and a half years now? It's even become another resource tool in my arsenal – I often search my own blog for items and ideas that I know I've written about in the past so that I can re-visit them, now, with the benefit of hindsight or to remember a fact or whatever.
I've also grown to have some posts that are particular favourites for one reason or another. I summarized some of them in a post called “Best Tales” (which badly need updated!) and today, I would like to highlight a post that will go on that “Best of…” list when I do get around to updating it – the post I did last Remembrance Day, a few months after my grandfather passed away.
