"'Hot Shot City', which is particularly good"

The Amazon.com Reviews of a David Hasselhoff “Best of” album which is a special import from…you guessed it, Germany.  Perhaps the funniest thing I've read all year.  (via

A Weekend of Athletics (Other People) and Socializing (Me)

This weekend was probably my busiest social weekend since getting to London… Friday night, we went to Christina's party as I believe I already mentioned.  The athletics of

One Red Paper Clip = A House in Saskatchewan

A 26 year old guy from Montreal has managed to “trade up” from a single red paper clip to his end goal of a house which, in the

A Week of Learning at FIMS

Here's a sample overview of some highlights for a random week at FIMS…MondayI don't have class on Monday which means it's technically the day that I work on

Friday Fun Link – July 7, 2006 (Largest Cities Throughout History)

One of the great things about doing a weekly fun link targetted at librarians is that I can basically link to anything interesting I find since it’s all

Five Things That Make Me Insanely Happy

Stealing a meme from my mentee's blog:Name five things that make you insanely happy for absolutely no fathomable reason: 1. Sticky notes (and office supply stores in general)2.

Lunch Bucket/Film Series Double-Header

Our first Lunch Bucket speaker of the summer will be on Wednesday July 19 from 12-1pm.  Jean McKay is a local author and creative writing instructor who has

A Very Efffective Use of PowerPoint

This was the second slide in a presentation that Linda Schneider of the FIMS Graduate Resource Centre gave to our “Collections Development” course back in early June.  She

Randomness (Happy Canada Day & Fourth of July)

How Hot Is It In Ontario Right Now?“It's hotter than a bull's balls when the summer stalls” as we say out west.  (Actually we don't say this out

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