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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – MLIS Student Council (Fall 2006)

Hard to believe library school was so long ago…

¶ Posted 03 March 2022 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ontario

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Premier Scott Moe Declares A State of Emergency (March 2020)

Now that Saskatchewan is in the midst of being one of the first provinces to remove basically all Covid-19 restrictions, stopping reporting Covid-19 stats except on a weekly basis and just generally pretending the pandemic is over because…reasons, I thought it’d be a nice bookend to revisit that initial press conference where Premier Moe first […]

¶ Posted 17 February 2022 § Infographic § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, saskatchewan, science

Saturday Snap – #WhyIMissedTheProtestForFreedom #FluTrucksKlan

First, my wife and I took our daughter to her art class where she created and learned with about ten other kids… Before her class started, we went into the centre’s art gallery to check out the latest installation. We enjoyed this show with a handful of other people who were in the gallery including […]

¶ Posted 05 February 2022 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, history, saskatchewan, science, travel

Secular Sunday – Argument From Poor Design

There’s a lot of reasons to not believe in God but the “Argument From Poor Design” – basically a list of reasons a perfect creator still put a bunch of useless/poorly designed parts into human beings and other animals is one of my favourites.

¶ Posted 30 January 2022 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, philosophy, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Family Literacy Day (January 2018)

Happy Family Literacy Day! Here’s some pics from a Family Literacy Day event we had at the library a few years back…

¶ Posted 27 January 2022 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book

Wordle? Why Yes, I’m Something of an Authority Myself…

Well, maybe not an authority but a recent blog post may have at least convinced a couple people at the Mother Corp that I should be interviewed for a CBC story about the game! 😉 (And I’m going to lose sleep tonight thinking how that beautiful pre-planned quote came off worse than I intended simply […]

¶ Posted 26 January 2022 § Humour § Internet § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

“A Warm Glowing Lantern” – Design Unveiled For New Saskatoon Downtown Library #yxe

This looks amazing – can’t wait to visit! New Central libraries have been built in most major Canadian cities over the past decade from Halifax to Winnipeg to Calgary to Vancouver among many others. And now Saskatoon will join that list! Every single one of these new Central libraries have become community hubs, centres of […]