Ok, here are some pix from Flickr of us at the Grand Canyon. If you want to look at more pictures, go to
Most of the photos are from our trip last March to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Beach Reads
Another column for the North Shore Outlook! This one is titled "Beach Reads"
BEACH READS
It’s a beautiful summer day - warm and sunny with a few gentle breezes. You’ve set up your umbrella, spread out your towel, donned your sunglasses and hat and applied your sunscreen. Now you reach into your bag and pull out …the perfect beach read! Here are some suggestions from the North Vancouver District Public Library:
NON-FICTION:
Wonderful Tonight : George Harrison, Eric Clapton and me by Patti Boyd
Losing It : and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time by Valerie Bertinelli
It’s not easy being married to rock gods – they’re egotistical, demanding, unfaithful, drug and alcohol abusing workaholics. But these two women write about their relationships and lives with amazingly little bitterness and regret, and a lot of sweetness and honesty.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run : True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
In this fun, fearless memoir, Allison shares his experiences taking "guests" through the African wilderness, trips that often don't go quite as planned, due especially to the unpredictability of the animals around them.
FICTION:
Well Bred and Dead by Catherine O'Connell
Meet Pauline Cook, who, despite being close to running out of money, shops when the going gets tough. Cook, a widowed Chicago socialite, is devastated by the apparent suicide of her friend, gay society columnist Ethan Campbell. The police turn up a stash of birth certificates in Ethan's apartment, and Pauline begins to wonder if her boon companion—always a bit cagey about his past—was who he claimed to be.
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
This story of notorious East London criminal Sid Malone and crusading woman doctor India Selwyn Jones takes many melodramatic turns between their first antagonistic meeting in 1900 and their final passionate rendezvous in 1907. Donnelly leads the reader through turn-of-the-century England from the Houses of Parliament to ale houses and whore houses, and from London to Africa and beyond.
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller (a so-called "Lincoln lawyer" who works out of his car) takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.
Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
After years of hard work, Gina Foxton hosts her own local Georgia cooking show, Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. When her show gets cancelled and she catches her boyfriend cheating, Gina decides to try out for a show on the Cooking Channel. Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. "Kill It and Grill It" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show named Vittles. The competition between Gina and Tate ramps up when the network decides to turn their competition into a reality show.
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Keye’s latest traces the intertwined stories of stylist Lola, journalist Grace,
Grace’s sister Marnie, an old friend Alicia and a man that binds all their lives.
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
The author of The Devil Wears Prada tells the story of three best friends
who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
James Bond returns! Agent 007 is called back into action to track a
power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate who proves to be his most dangerous
adversary yet.
BEACH READS
It’s a beautiful summer day - warm and sunny with a few gentle breezes. You’ve set up your umbrella, spread out your towel, donned your sunglasses and hat and applied your sunscreen. Now you reach into your bag and pull out …the perfect beach read! Here are some suggestions from the North Vancouver District Public Library:
NON-FICTION:
Wonderful Tonight : George Harrison, Eric Clapton and me by Patti Boyd
Losing It : and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time by Valerie Bertinelli
It’s not easy being married to rock gods – they’re egotistical, demanding, unfaithful, drug and alcohol abusing workaholics. But these two women write about their relationships and lives with amazingly little bitterness and regret, and a lot of sweetness and honesty.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run : True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
In this fun, fearless memoir, Allison shares his experiences taking "guests" through the African wilderness, trips that often don't go quite as planned, due especially to the unpredictability of the animals around them.
FICTION:
Well Bred and Dead by Catherine O'Connell
Meet Pauline Cook, who, despite being close to running out of money, shops when the going gets tough. Cook, a widowed Chicago socialite, is devastated by the apparent suicide of her friend, gay society columnist Ethan Campbell. The police turn up a stash of birth certificates in Ethan's apartment, and Pauline begins to wonder if her boon companion—always a bit cagey about his past—was who he claimed to be.
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
This story of notorious East London criminal Sid Malone and crusading woman doctor India Selwyn Jones takes many melodramatic turns between their first antagonistic meeting in 1900 and their final passionate rendezvous in 1907. Donnelly leads the reader through turn-of-the-century England from the Houses of Parliament to ale houses and whore houses, and from London to Africa and beyond.
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller (a so-called "Lincoln lawyer" who works out of his car) takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.
Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
After years of hard work, Gina Foxton hosts her own local Georgia cooking show, Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. When her show gets cancelled and she catches her boyfriend cheating, Gina decides to try out for a show on the Cooking Channel. Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. "Kill It and Grill It" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show named Vittles. The competition between Gina and Tate ramps up when the network decides to turn their competition into a reality show.
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Keye’s latest traces the intertwined stories of stylist Lola, journalist Grace,
Grace’s sister Marnie, an old friend Alicia and a man that binds all their lives.
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
The author of The Devil Wears Prada tells the story of three best friends
who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
James Bond returns! Agent 007 is called back into action to track a
power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate who proves to be his most dangerous
adversary yet.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Unshelved
Ok, first I'll talk about what I've accomplished in the "Playground". I've been through Parts 1 & 2 (attaching those meeting minutes is a bit of a pain, all right!) and am currently looking at Flickr. I've used Flickr before, just to look at other people's photos of travel, weddings, etc. I've asked my son to download the pix on our home computer to Flickr so I can practice downloading some of them onto this blog. That's the idea, anyway.
In the meantime, probably most of you have heard of "Unshelved", the comic strip featuring the librarian Dewey. He and the rest of the staff at the Smallville Library are always facing dilemmas than any library worker can relate to! If you go to www.unshelved.com, and sign up, you can receive the strip daily (Sundays' strips are full page colour reviews of a childrens' or YA book)
Monday, July 7, 2008
More videos on Youtube
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Some of you may remember the above - my "famous" BCLA report that made it into the Staff blog! In the second panel of it, Mary Worth's companion refers to "Peter DeGroot's staff training videos you can see on YouTube." For those of you who haven't seen them, you're in for a treat!
This one's called "The Security Gate Strikes Back" Others are : Revenge of the HSIT, No Hope and (my personal favourite) The Phantom Manass
"Commoncraft" videos on Youtube
There's a number of useful videos on Youtube by a company called Commoncraft. Their series is called "In Plain English" and they deal with a number of the things we're looking at: blogs, wikis, social networking, rss, etc.
Here's a link to the video "RSS In Plain English"
Here's a link to the video "RSS In Plain English"
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