I'm over at the school having worked on a couple of my first assignments for most of the night after walking Shea to work at 7pm. Now I'm just surfing around aimlessly because Shea's at work and if I go home, er, I'd probably just be doing the same thing. Here's something fun I came […]
Back from our trip to the States. Great time but as we traveled, I was continually reminded of a quote which I believe is from Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip: “One on one, Americans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. But as a group, they scare the hell out of me.” […]
I went on a semester exchange to York England when I was in undergrad. Because of the constant excitement of new experiences and meeting new people and learning new things, I never really got homesick in my four months there, even though everybody warned me that I would. But when I got back to Canada, […]
Overnight, one other person voted for deletion of the Spirit of Librarianship article I put on Wikipedia as well. So now it's four votes to delete, none to keep and so if you're going to look at the original article, you should do it soon since I'm not sure if it'll exist “behind-the-scenes” once it's […]
Other than a couple minor edits, I've never done anything major on Wikipedia, even though I think it's an amazing resource (“a streamlined Google” is how I like to think of it) and use it all the time. So tonight, I decided to try and do something a bit more substantial. I don't know if […]
These are my notes from probably the best session I attended at CLA (okay, it tied with Michael Geist's session on copyright but those were two totally different things. Or were they?) To put it in perspective, I wrote maybe a page in my notebook at most sessions I attended. I took six pages at […]
Back from a couple days at Book Expo Canada in Toronto and here are some random thoughts… – if you've never been, how the Book Expo trade show works is basically you walk around a huge trade show (200+ exhibitors?) and all the publishers and other writing organizations have booths promoting their books, authors and […]
Way back in College 1.0, I wrote a satirical essay in one of my writing classes which I think is appropriate at this time as I sit in a Montreal hostel, looking through the books on the history of the city. At the time I wrote this essay, it was a few months after I'd […]
I'm sitting in a hotel room in TO watching the Flames versus the Ducks in Game One of the Stanley Cup playoffs after another whirlwind trip – this time visiting relatives in Georgetown and Grand Valley north of Toronto yesterday and this morning with my parents. The three of us came into Toronto Friday at […]
One of the first things our class did when we started was set-up a Yahoo! listserv so all us first termer's would have a way to easily communicate with each other without having to use official class lists (which aren't necessarily meant for that purpose anyhow.) So far the listserv has facilitated discussion of assignments, […]
