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Amazon Prime Is An Economy-Distorting Lie

I’m trying as hard as I can to avoid buying from Amazon as I’ve grown to *really* dislike their business practices – from how they treat workers to resellers engaging in fraud to simply the fact that Jeff Bezos does not need one more penny of my money. I mean, Wal-Mart is a shitty employer […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book

RIP Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940-2021

PICTURES OF THE DEAD (from “Dark Halo”) The dead leave us only images of themselves: souvenirs in washed out colours, dried petals pressed in family albums, shadows that stain our papered walls. They abandon us in our rooms, teach us how to converse with dust, will not let us forget them. But in our glistening reeds […]

¶ Posted 25 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: alberta, book, language, ontario, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – How Much Do Musicians Make From Streaming?

Not “really” fun, especially if you’re a musician, but this tool is definitely interesting to estimate how much musicians gets compensated for their streaming music and how the amounts differ depending on the service.

¶ Posted 23 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – The Big Library: Books About Basic Income

This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.

¶ Posted 09 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, Covid, education, health, history

Secular Sunday – The Cost of Religion in Canada

A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.

¶ Posted 04 April 2021 § Canada § Infographic § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, education, history, science

Throwback Thursday – MacBook Pro (November 2012)

I’m not 100% sure but I think this is a picture of the box when I bought my last laptop, a MacBook Pro, sometime in 2012? I’ve had a few maintenance things over the years – I think I replaced the hard drive, added memory going from 4 to 8GB, bought a new power […]

¶ Posted 01 April 2021 § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Technology § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Appalachian Man Interview – Elmer

“Soft White Underbelly” is a fascinating interview series on YouTube…

¶ Posted 31 March 2021 § Randomness § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, language, unitedstates

Some Quick Thoughts On The Stabbing at Lynn Valley Public Library in North Vancouver

Shea and I often talk about how strange it is that librarians are one of the few professions where practitioners actively visit local examples of their workplace in other communities when traveling (she doesn’t have a strong desire to visit hospitals in other places when on a holiday – that’s for sure!). I think there’s […]

¶ Posted 28 March 2021 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Friday Fun Link – Apple’s M1 Chip

The announcement of the new Apple M1 chip last fall finally got me to make the leap from using a ~2012-era MacBook Pro which was at the point that it was basically held together with digital duct tape and prayers to buying a new MacBook Air which arrived this week. I’ll likely share some expanded […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, language, science, youtube