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Friday Fun Link – Apple’s M1 Chip

The announcement of the new Apple M1 chip last fall finally got me to make the leap from using a ~2012-era MacBook Pro which was at the point that it was basically held together with digital duct tape and prayers to buying a new MacBook Air which arrived this week. I’ll likely share some expanded […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, language, youtube

Exponential Growth: A Commonsense Explanation

When something is going through exponential growth, even in the early stages, most people completely underestimate how quickly things are going to change, even when the exponential growth has been going on for quite a while. Some humans are really bad at understanding math.

¶ Posted 24 March 2021 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: Covid, education, health, saskatchewan

Why No Aquarium Has A Great White Shark

Random Sunday afternoon YouTube algorithm finds…both interesting and sad:

¶ Posted 21 March 2021 § Randomness § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Reading Science Books = Future Astronaut?

Sasha’s pretty obsessed with this True/False book about the planets. Future astronaut confirmed! 😉

¶ Posted 06 March 2021 § Family § Photo § PopCulture § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Twitter Account From The First Month of Covid (March 2020)

We’re into the same month as when Covid became real and the world shut-down mid-month so I’ll likely be posting a few different retrospective posts, whether it’s “Throwback Thursday” or not over the next few weeks. For example, here’s all my tweets from March 2020. I loved this tweet (but not that I managed a […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2021 § Humour § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, history

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day One – Welcome Back! (And A Child Reads One of the Year’s Most Controversial Books, “Call Me Max”) #ftrw

I’m a huge Freedom of Expression guy and think Freedom to Read Week should be a highlight of every librarian’s calendar. I don’t think I managed to do it every year but ever since I was in library school in 2006 (also the year I started this blog), I’ve tried to do an annual series […]

¶ Posted 21 February 2021 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education, freedomtoreadweek, health, language

Music Monday – “Hey little sister/Who’s your superman/Hey little sister/Who’s the one you want?”

I know it’s not 2020 anymore but the most “2020” thing of 2021 (so far) is that it’s a pre-Super Bowl performance by Miley Cyrus and Billy Idol that feels like the first real, tangible proof I’ve seen in nearly a year that we might get back to “normal” once vaccinations are widespread. Someone who […]

¶ Posted 08 February 2021 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, unitedstates

I’m at an age where…

…I find myself downloading apps to test my hearing at midnight, suddenly worried that a lifetime of listening to loud music and going to concerts that left my ears ringing is catching up to me. (Luckily, at least according to a free iPhone app, I have nothing to worry about…yet.)

¶ Posted 02 February 2021 § Humour § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health

Secular Sunday – Ricky Gervais and Stephen Colbert Debate Religion

¶ Posted 03 January 2021 § Humour § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy

RIP Luke Letlow (Maybe?)

It’s an interesting question about how we should feel when someone makes bad, ill-informed choices that lead directly to their death. *Of course* every death is sad. *But maybe* it’s not quite as sad when someone willingly makes a conscious choice to avoid even the most basic Covid precautions and then ends up dying of […]