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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: , , ,

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:

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: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Future Rapper? (October 2010)

Pace appears well positioned for a career making hip hop videos…

Posted 25 March 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Covid-19: A Year in Review

But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]

Posted 18 March 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § News § Pace § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

$39 Million Bora Bora Private Island

Don’t think I’ll ever afford this but perhaps they need an on-site librarian? 😉  

Posted 14 March 2021 § Jobs § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Four – Ontario Labour Board Awards $25,000 To Worker After Being Fired For Raising Covid Safety Concerns #FTRW

Another aspect of Freedom of Expression in the age of Covid is whether workers feel empowered to speak out about safety concerns they see in their workplaces without fear of reprisal. Most legislation has provisions to protect workers for speaking out on safety issues of any kind but many workplaces also take the position that […]

Posted 24 February 2021 § Jobs § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saskatchewan Billionaire Becomes Tech Titan

Wow – never realised that the head of CloudFlare is from Saskatchewan For the record, Zatlyn’s stake in Cloudflare, based on its market capitalization of $28 billion, amounts to over $1 billion. That’s ‘one’ with nine zeros after it. We’re in a binary digital world but that one and all those zeros mean so much […]

Posted 16 February 2021 § Internet § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

What Is Going On With Game Stop & Reddit?

Well, the dominant narrative of this story is “large group of Internet-enabled Reddit underdogs figure out strategy to bankrupt billion dollar hedge fund” but the reality, as usual, is probably a lot more complicated and also consequential.    

Posted 27 January 2021 § Jobs § Meme § News § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,