Tag Archives: language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – I Wonder What Their Tourism Slogan Is? (February 2008)

Given our province’s recent track record, “Access One” would probably be good enough and they wouldn’t even need to make a new sign!

“We all start out knowing magic.”

Secular Sunday – No, Not *Those* Dirty Books (Book Banning Lawmaker “Very Sad” His Law Being Used To Ban “Sex Ridden” Bible)

Rules for thee but not for me. (via Reddit)

Comedians on Censorship and PC/Cancel Culture

 

Dildo, Newfoundland’s Slogan Is…

“There’s No Place Like Dildo” Can you imagine?  So booorrrring! Did they not realise what a goldmine of a city name they were sitting on compared to most Canadian cities?  The right slogan and boom – right to Jimmy Kimmel! (Gotta be honest – when Shea and I were in Newfoundland for a wedding about […]

Music Monday – “Experience Regina” (Well, It Was An Experience To Be in Regina This Weekend Anyhow!)

“Experience Regina” Parody (Watch It To See Some of Regina’s “Highlights”) You may have heard that Tourism Regina recently rebranded. It started with a teaser clip and message on social media at the start of March: It’s All Happening… Let’s push the narrative; the same old is boring. Our city is changing, and that means […]

Unleashing the Power of ChatGPT 4: An Overview of its Amazing Capabilities

As the latest version of the GPT series, ChatGPT 4 is an advanced artificial intelligence language model that offers incredible capabilities to streamline content creation. It is a powerful tool that can help you generate high-quality content, simplify the content creation process, and personalize content for your audience. Let’s take a closer look at some […]

Friday Fun Link – Archive of All Wordle Answers

I haven’t been doing the Wordle regularly like I used to but still occasionally do it. And it recently occurred to me that if you have a regular “starting word” and you looked at an archive of all previous Wordle solutions, that would let you know if there was still a chance you might hit […]

With Apologies to William Carlos Williams (aka Emails I Send To Branch Staff)

This Is Just To Say I have drank the diet ginger ale that was in the SV icebox And which might have belonged to you Forgive me if it was yours I could not remember If it was mine (There are also a couple Coke Zeros in there that might be mine too – let […]

RPL Stories: John

I’ve said it before but #RPLStories is easily the best marketing campaign the library I work for has ever done (they’re focused on patron stories so I’m not just saying that because I have a cameo in one of them!) 😉 I knew his story already (likely from his own #RPLStory) but had a lengthy […]