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Thursday, July 20
Stat of the Day
by
Jason
on Fri 21 Jul 2006 01:05 AM EDT
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
by
Jason
on Fri 21 Jul 2006 12:11 AM EDT
I heard about Calvin Ayre tonight on CBC's The National. Much like myself, he is from a farming family in rural Saskatchewan and attended UWO to do his Masters. Unlike me, he did an MBA instead of an MLIS. Oh, and he became a billionaire via his online gaming company while my stock portfolio consists of RRSP's, some income trust stocks that my grandpa told me to buy and a few shares in a gold company that are currently worth (just a sec...) $62.50. Yep, Ayre and I are peas in a pod, I say!
I was going to write that Ayre is the only billionaire from Saskatchewan but apparently that's not true - Murray Edwards who's the richest of all the rich oil & gas guys in Calgary (and a part owner of the Flames) is from Sask-a-bush (I didn't know that or else I would've given him a call when I lived there. I did say "hey" to Ken King who's the President of the Flames and also from Saskatchewan during their playoff run in 2004 when he was outside for the Fanfest activities. If I had my old-school print photo albums here, I could scan and post the pic I snapped of him giving me a thumbs up.) The other Saskatchewan billionaire is Jimmy Pattison who made his fortune via a variety of businesses (for example, he's responsible for all those Pattison billboards on every road and street corner in every city in Canada). Pattison lives in Vancouver. I thought two brothers, Byron and Doc Seaman, who are from Saskatchewan and also part owners of the Flames and would be up there but apparently they're only multi-milllionaires. Oh... Classmate of the Day goes to Florence Hwang since this is a Saskatchewan-themed post and she reminded me today that she's from Regina. (How did I forget that?) Renee Stollery also gets a CotD for giving me a good laugh during Collection Development. Our instructor told us the list price for a subscription to an electronic journal ($8000) and asked what we thought a certain library was able to negotiate as their price. As various people were called on, they guessed different numbers - $1000, $2000, $4000 - and then our instructor calls on Renee and she goes "$1" in a moment right out of the Price is Right. I don't know - maybe you had to be there but I found it pretty funny.
There Will Be A Lot Less Criticizing of Student Council On This Blog From Now On
by
Jason
on Thu 20 Jul 2006 04:20 PM EDT
After discussion with a member of the current student council, I let my name stand for election (er, appointment? I have no idea how they do things) and as of Wednesday afternoon, am the new, incoming Academic Rep for the MLIS Student Council.
As with everything in my life (Spirit of Librarianship, whether or not to do co-op, toast or cereal in the morning), I have mixed feelings about this. I want to keep doing my own projects - mainly Lunch Bucket but also a couple others that I think would be awesome for the Fall. Plus if I get doing a job search next semester, that could take up some time as well. (I doubt it would be as bad as applying for co-op but a lot of people described that process as being "like taking another class.") But there are some exciting initiatives under way already and the potential to maybe implement a few of my better ideas directly rather than nagging people on student council constantly. So we'll see how it goes. Then on top of that, I went for breakfast today with Cabot Yu, a FIMS alumnus who now works for the Government of Canada and was back at FIMS presenting some information on getting a government job to students, giving career advice and just generally being an all-around helpful guy. Had a good conversation with a bunch of fellow students at breakfast about CLA, their conference, Feliciter and various other issues in the library world. And I think I ended up suggesting that I might be willing to join a CLA committee if there is a vacancy. I am the Establishment Man (or maybe just a guy who can't say no!  ) Oh, and Cabot picked up the bill for all of us. So, he gets Classmate Colleague of the Day for that generosity - both at breakfast (he joked "hopefully, this helps make up for that $18 first-timers breakfast at CLA.") and also just in general. To me, Cabot's one of those guys who defines what a librarian should be - selfless, smart and eager to help in any way possible (and I don't say that just because I know he reads this blog!) |
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