Tag Archives: language

Secular Sunday – Eagle Feathers

It’s stunning how many people think you have to swear on a Bible in court (that’d be a big “out” for me as an atheist!  But atheists still have to swear a legally binding affirmation to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me, uh, Bob?)

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Lose An AuDHD Employee In 10 Easy Steps

A friend who is diagnosed with ADHD and some other mental health challenges sent me this. View this post on Instagram

Friday Fun Link – The World Needs More Childlike Pointless Whimsy

I had a manager once who observed, almost confused, “So you like whimsical things?” Yes.  Yes, I do.  I am *so* jealous of this girl! Somewhere a therapist is trying to get people to "live in the moment" while this girl is already three levels deep into a made up game that only exists in […]

Music Monday – “All this talk of getting old/It’s getting me down my love/Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown/This time I’m coming down”

If you’re in a British band called “The Libertines” and have a lifelong history of battling drug addiction, this is a perfect song to cover in a stripped down acoustic form… Peter Doherty strips “The Drugs Don’t Work” back until there is almost nowhere for the song to hide. Richard Ashcroft wrote one of The […]

Friday Fun Link – Richard Feynman Explains Magnetism in a Very Thorough Way

I mean, this is both cool but also some strong “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy here too… In 1983, a BBC interviewer asked Richard Feynman why two magnets push each other apart — and he refused to answer it. What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed. Bookmark & […]

Wisdom Wednesday – 10 Principles of Change Management

I was *very* fortunate that my first job at Regina Public Library was in an HR role dedicated to change management, organizational culture and staff training. RPL was going into two major changes – a move to a provincewide integrated library system and a large staff reorganization to go with it. The lists may differ […]

Racist Saskatchewan Town Names? White City? Indian Head?

@joeljeffreycomedian The first time you drive through Saskatchewan canada yxe yqr canadian #standupcomedy ? original sound – Joel Jeffrey – Joel Jeffrey

Wisdom Wednesday – We Are All Acting

  Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor. Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself. It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history. Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that… pic.twitter.com/5X1m2HzmnU — History Nerd (@_HistoryNerd) […]

Music Monday – “I hate Shakespeare and Gosling and cakes with white frosting/Two names in a heart-shaped tattoo/I think Cupid is stupid and violets are purple not blue.”

“I Hate Love Songs” – Kelsea Ballerini

Music Monday – “Think of you with pipe and slippers, think of her in bed/Laying there just watching telly, then think of me instead.”

Going through a bit of a Beautiful South phase right now.  Discovered them while on exchange in England and have fond memories of singing their sarcastic lyrics over beautiful melodies in the hallway with my dormmates. Even had “Prettiest Eyes” as Shea’s and my first song at our wedding dance! “Don’t Marry Her (Fuck Me)” […]