I’ve recently rediscovered hummus.  God, that stuff is addictive! The local hard rock radio station playing German quasi-death metal on my drive back to work after lunch recently = Jason has a very productive afternoon! 😉 I’ve mentioned this before but getting to come home for lunch every day is beyond awesome. That’s partly because, […]
I’m probably one of the worst people for loving all of those “50 Books To Read Before You Die”, “10 Books Every Child Should Read”, “17 Books for a Summer Holiday” lists. I mean, they *do* comprise two of my most favouritist things in the world – books and lists. However, I think this list […]
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, did something fairly unique with his first book, “Without Their Permission” by including a “suggesting reading time” logo on the back cover. Â This logo estimates the book would take about five hours to read and that this is the equivalent of a cross-country flight from New York to San Francisco. […]
A great question from Reddit’s /r/books sub-reddit.
It’s actually kind of goofy how much I look forward to doing a Freedom to Read Week display at the library each year. A couple years ago, I did one at Central and this year, I got to do one for my new branch. Â Luckily, I still had my “Caution” tape but unlike before when […]
Wired magazine asks if what we’re seeing in Sochi is a manifestation of some of the tropes of current dystopian literature like “Hunger Games”, the “Divergent” trilogy, etc. – a gleaming, authoritarian rule masquerading as a utopia but with a barely hidden sub-class, propaganda, televised spectacle, corruption, rigged competitions, doublespeak, etc. It’s an interesting idea […]
About once a week I work a 10-6 shift instead of a more typical 9-5 one. Â With one staff member on holidays and one having called in sick, today happened to be particularly busy day starting as soon as I arrived, an hour later than usual. So I thought I’d do a list of a […]
On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]
I got Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” as a Christmas gift and just finished it. Â That inspired me to revisit some of the videos he made on the International Space Station. How cool is this one? Â (And am I the only one who wonders how they ensure the little bubbles of […]
I suspect Tim Minchin will be making up the content of all my Music Monday posts for Atheist Advent! 😉 “The Good Book” – Tim Minchin
