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Shit Sighted People Say To Blind People

I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)

¶ Posted 12 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

¶ Posted 11 June 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Some Random Thoughts on TedXRegina

So I was one of the lucky 100 who got to attend TedXRegina on Wednesday at the ShuBox Theatre at the U of R. Here are some random thoughts about the day… – never realised until the night before while checking out the #tedxregina hashtag on Twitter that there were only 100 seats available as […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: cool, music, saskatchewan, science

Sappy Sunday – Happy Mother’s Day

Over the weekend, a guy I used to play hockey with posted a status update with a link to the blog he and his wife kept of their experiences while adopting a South African boy three years ago, a journey that culminated over Mother’s Day. I’ve direct linked to their Mother’s Day posts but it’s […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2012 § Family § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them…

¶ Posted 10 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, history, rant, unitedstates

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

¶ Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history, unitedstates

A Great Way To Fire Someone

I was talking with a colleague today about the process of having to fire people. I said I’d had this experience twice – once when I had to fire someone, once when I begged for clemency for an employee whose job was on the line. (I thought this employee was being targeted for the wrong […]

¶ Posted 08 May 2012 § Library § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]