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Friday Fun Link – I Replaced The Word ‘Millennials’ With ‘43-Year-Old White Men’ And Now These Headlines Are Italian Chef Kissing Fingers Gesture

As a 43-year old white male, I feel duty-bound to post this funny piece that came out last week and which shows how silly many web articles about an entire generation sound when applied to a very specific slice of demography… Some examples… How Tumblr Plans To Pay 43-Year-Old White Men To Blog ?—?Inc. Is The […]

¶ Posted 12 August 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history

Friday Fun Link – What The World’s Biggest Sites Looked Like At Launch

This is pretty interesting featuring screenshots of the original version of sites such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. For comparison’s sake, here’s what my very first web page looked like in December 1998 (this isn’t the first page I ever made but the earliest I could find in the Wayback Machine). Crazy to […]

¶ Posted 15 July 2016 § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: facebook, google, history, twitter, wikipedia

Throwback Thursday – Practice Makes Dishpan Hands? (July 13, 2006)

In 2006, I took the only Children’s Librarianship class that my library school offered. I did extremely well in it and was one of only six students (out of a class of 20+) that our prof invited for a end-of-class meal and celebration for her most promising students. One of the reasons she saw great potential […]

¶ Posted 14 July 2016 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, twitter

Friday Fun Link – How To Be Canadian

Happy Canada Day, eh?

¶ Posted 01 July 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: hockey, holiday, youtube

~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]

¶ Posted 12 June 2016 § Library § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, history, music, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Balloons all filled with rain/As children’s eyes turn sleepy mean/And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain/For a boy in Fiddler’s Green”

Following up on yesterday’s post about death and dying in Tragically Hip songs, here is perhaps the saddest song in the Tragically Hip’s catalogue… “Fiddler’s Green” – The Tragically Hip

¶ Posted 30 May 2016 § Canada § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – The 100 Jokes That Defined Modern Comedy

This is an amazing list covering all the jokes/skits/moments that have helped define our modern understanding of (and sometimes approach to) comedy.

¶ Posted 26 May 2016 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: freedomtoreadweek, history

Gord Downie Taught Me To Dance: Memories of A Band That Defined Me and My Country

So I woke up today to the very sad news that Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, has terminal brain cancer. Obviously, as you age, it’s natural that your own heroes and icons will age ahead of you. But 2016 has been a rough year where we lost some top-shelf music icons – […]