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Happy Birthday Shea!

I’m a bit behind on my daily blog posts so catching up on the ones I missed since Wednesday starting with a very important one. (Apparently new boots are the secret to life, the universe and everything!) 😉

Posted 17 February 2021 § Family § Humour § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Which Dewey Decimal Number Are You?

The NYPL has a Buzzfeed-esque quiz that’s pretty fun…

Posted 12 February 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

@officialRPL ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… #yqr

RPL’s Marketing Unit has created some great content recently including this timely video featuring a number of well-known Regina names…  

Posted 24 December 2020 § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Used To Be?

Had an urge to pose with this book at my library for some reason – “I Used To Be A Miserable F*ck”. 😉

Posted 14 November 2020 § Censorship § Humour § Library § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My First Ever Amazon Order (August 1997)

Was digging through the depths of my computer’s hard drive and came across a pretty amazing find…the email receipt I got for my first ever order from Amazon back in summer 1997. A few things to note… not sure why but I used my work email address for the order when I’m pretty sure I […]

Posted 24 September 2020 § Internet § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – 10 WTF Bible Passages

 

Posted 13 September 2020 § Humour § List § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Netflix CEO Writes A Book

Some irony that the head of the world’s most successful video company would write a book but there you go. I’ve long been fascinated by how various tech companies (including Netflix) create and develop their corporate cultures and what traditional companies and organizations can learn from them. Hastings boils down Netflix’s competitive advantage over Blockbuster […]

Posted 09 September 2020 § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – Family Portrait at the Library (June 2011)

Posted 02 July 2020 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Library Run “Famous Quotes” Database

I’ve always loved quotations and used to even “read” quotation books.  Now the web has modernized the idea in the form of quote web sites. There are a few options out there but I recently found out that a library system in Kentucky runs its own “Famous Quotes” web site which is pretty cool!

Posted 26 June 2020 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this is from happier times and what happy times they were. During my many years on the Coteau board, I met such a wide range of great people […]

Posted 28 May 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,