Friday Fun with Food
Really, this is one of those link-dump posts but all the links are food-related in some way… so enjoy! Always good for information I didn’t need, @mental_floss delivered via Twitter Continue Reading →
Month: September 2010
Read a Banned Book
This week is American Library Association’s Banned Book Week, south of the border (the Canadian Library Association promotes Freedom to Read Week in February each year). I thought I would Continue Reading →
Eat Here Now
Managed to make it to Eat Here Now! a local food festival put on in support of a permanent Public Market for the City of Victoria. The weather looked a Continue Reading →
Of Pixels Past
Popping into YouTube today and this video was recommended: I totally remember it, too. Game graphics were used in lots of ads but especially anything marketed to kids. The summer Continue Reading →
Podcasts are my sanity-savers
Sometimes my job consists of sitting amongst a bunch of equipment scanning page after page after page. I’m not going to lie, this gets pretty mind-numbing. In order to save Continue Reading →
Where Few Women Venture
Many times in my life, I have found myself in circles with few other women — just one of the guys. The most notable of these situations was the pre-apprenticeship Continue Reading →
Kilmansegg rhymes with leg
One of my tasks at work is handling the damaged books (we get a lot), directing them to the librarians whose task it is to decide whether we replace, repair Continue Reading →
Social Aggregating
As you know, I’m all over “social networking” — Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Delicious, etc. — but there’s a new(ish) breed of sites trying to put themselves in the same Continue Reading →
West Coast Weekend
Just as “no one should go to Victoria without seeing Butchart Gardens,” no trip to the Island is really complete until you’ve seen at least part of the Pacific Rim Continue Reading →