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Music Monday – “Everyone’s watching, to see what you will do/Everyone’s looking at you,/oh Everyone’s wondering, will you come out tonight/Everyone’s trying to get it right, get it right

Had a busy weekend… Went to meet my local councillor at his “Coffee with a Councillor” event and ended up bumping into enough of city council including the Mayor to have quorum for a meeting! (not pictured – Councillor Mark Burton) Had a great chat about taxes, mega projects, development, and yes, even though I […]

¶ Posted 22 September 2025 § Jobs § Library § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Lawful Evil vs. Chaotic Evil: Understanding the Motivation of the Charlie Kirk Shooter

There is a far-right group called Turning Point USA led by Charlie Kirk and another, even more far-right group called Groypers, led by Charlie Fuentes and they are at war with each other, even while being at war with the wider world in various ways. This is a great explanation of why: @cybelecanterel A quick […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2025 § Humour § Internet § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: history, language

Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act? How do they treat people? How do they support people? How do they enable people to do their best work? Are they well-liked by staff? Do staff even know who they are? (If they don’t, do […]

¶ Posted 11 June 2025 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, orgdevl

Wisdom Wednesday – The Two Core Types of Personalities

Humanity is forever trying to put people into boxes – 34 CliftonStrengths, 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, 5 Conflict Styles, 4 True Colours, etc. etc. One observation I’ve had over the years is that, when you boil it right down, there are really only two personality types – black & white thinkers and grey area thinkers. […]

¶ Posted 04 June 2025 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: language

Friday Fun Link – AI Video Is Unreal

Apparently right now, each AI video takes the equivalent energy to running a microwave for an hour. But when the world melts, at least we’ll have a bunch of deep fakes to think of… We are cooked. Google Veo 3 just broke the internet. 10 wild examples 1. Nothing is real anymorepic.twitter.com/IZdIinReNk — Md Riyazuddin […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2025 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Jobs § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, health, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome to Head Tale, The Blog

Let’s go *way* back to my very first blog post back in February 2006, nearly two months into my MLIS program and thinking “What can I possibly take up as a hobby that will help me procrastinate with assignments *and* be something I’m still doing twenty years later?!?”