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10 Years Ago Today – Remembering My Eulogy for Grandma Hammond

A cousin’s Facebook post reminded me that today marks ten years since my Grandma Hammond passed away. It’s hard to believe how quickly time has flown! I had the great privilege of delivering her eulogy and although I know some family members were a bit uneasy about the fact that I didn’t do a very typical […]

Posted 08 July 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

In One Or Two Sentences, Why Are You An Atheist?

Recently Reddit’s /r/atheism sub-reddit had a question asking users for a one or two sentence explanation for why they’re atheists. I’ve got a lot of reasons but my own two-sentence answer would be something like this: When I was a kid, my friend and I were really into Greek mythology.  He pointed out that the […]

Posted 18 June 2014 § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Librarian Privilege?

So the concept of privilege has been on my mind lately. Thanks to the kind (and kind of) folks on my Facebook feed, I’ve been regularly sent articles about “white privilege“, “male privilege“, “heterosexual privilege” (uhm, for anyone keeping count, I get to tick the box for all three…plus most other types of privilege out […]

Posted 05 June 2014 § Library § LibrarySchool § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

The Stanley Cup playoffs are heating up but it’s still the off season for some teams.  The official Twitter accounts of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Tampa Bay Lightning engaged in what is perhaps the world’s first game of Twitter Tac Toe! “Dad Jokes” are shorthand for lame jokes that inevitably get groans from […]

Posted 20 May 2014 § Family § Humour § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Fired University of Saskatchewan Professor Re-Hired After Major Outcry

Professor Robert Buckingham, a long time professor at the University of Saskatchewan, was recently fired for speaking out about some major ongoing budget cuts and restructuring plans at the U of S. The University administration claimed that there was a difference between the freedom of expression tenured professors should expect for expressing controversial or politically incorrect […]

Posted 15 May 2014 § Jobs § Library § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

CMV: There’s Nothing Wrong with Language Death and Attempts at Revitalizing Dying Languages Are A Complete Waste of Time and Effort

I’ve got numerous sub-Reddits that I love including one called Change My View (r/changemyview) where people pose their positions on sensitive (and not-so-sensitive) topics and ask others to try to convince them to change their mind. And unlike debate on 99% of the Internet, the respondents are often successful in changing the view of the original poster! A recent questions […]

Posted 13 May 2014 § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Christians have their hymns and pages/Hava nagila’s for the Jews/Baptists have the Rock of Ages/Atheists just sing the blues”

A co-worker sent me this knowing I’d get a kick out of it… “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs” – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

Posted 05 May 2014 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan

This is beyond cool.  I love Carl Sagan and how he puts life into proper perspective… http://vimeo.com/22582065

Posted 24 April 2014 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin Gives a NSFW Defense of Gay Marriage

Hell yeah! (h/t to JK or FB)

Posted 23 April 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “C’mon, C’mon”

Here’s a clip of the band we went to see last Friday night. The name of the song isn’t given and I feel like my 17 year old self listening to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” trying to make out the lyrics so you only get the most basic of lyric excerpts as the title of […]

Posted 21 April 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,