Re: It’s The End of the World As We Know It

I’ve been down for the past five days with a nasty sinus infection so I’ve had the opportunity to watch repeated trailers for the disaster flick “2012″ while on serious antibiotics. The idea that the world will end in 2012 due to a Mayan prophecy wasn’t as unbelieveable as the idea that the government will [...]

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Re: A Mystery Wrapped in a Lollipop ….

“Artificial mystery flavor.”
–Written on a label on a post-dinner, complimentary lollilop offered up by a local Japanese restaurant that I was eating at last night. The mystery flavor turned out to be coconut.

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Re: Happy Anniversary to Me!

July 04, 1942 Independence Day parade in New York. Taken by Life magazine photographer, Andreas Feninger. From Life’s on-line photo archives hosted by Google.
Let the bells ring out and the people cheer! June marks the two year anniversary of this blog. Can’t believe it myself. Time goes by so quickly. Frankly, I don’t know what [...]

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Re: A Story for Our Time

This is the kind of news story journalists just can’t get enough of–mostly because it allows us to make a number of bad puns. And I’m no exception . Christian Science Monitor reports that “sticky-fingered thieves” (my phrase) are snitching used cooking oil from restaurant storage bins and reselling it to biofuel plants, cutting [...]

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Re: Scary Things

      My assistant, Curtis, and I showed up for work wearing the same colors recently. Yesterday, we were both out sick at the same time. The truly frightening part is that we haven’t been working together that long. Another two or three years and we’ll start turning into one another …
      Speaking of scary scenarios, this [...]

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Re: Bits and Pieces

If you just can’t get enough of LOL Cats–and honestly, who can?–then you’ll enjoy this slideshow on Slate.com written by Michael Agger. He talks about the LOL Cat phenomenon, interviews Cheezburger, the moderator of “I Can Haz Cheezburger”, a LOL Cat mega site, and even follows the tale of the LOLrus and his lost bucket.
Here’s [...]

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Re: Housekeeping

Day of the Dead Skull photo by Green Thumbs (Flickr). Skull lights up and sings “I Ain’t Got No Body”. Yeah, I know. Sick.

Too late for this year, but just in time to give you ideas about next year’s Halloween is this book by Tom Nardone. To find out what really scares the [...]

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Re: Bits and Bobs

Jennifer Macauley has included my post on “What Library 2.0 Means to Me” on her Library 2.0 Roundup-Redux page, a handy source for thoughts on Library 2.0. There are opinions from well-known librarians as well as from your average Jane librarians like myself.
If you are looking for more librarian blogs to check out, have a [...]

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Re: This and That

It’s amazing what you can learn surfing around the Net. New words for me:

Tumblelog–basically a blog that is more like a scrapbook than a journal. You can create one with software like Tumblr.
Chimping–showing people the cool new digital photos you just took while going “Oooo! Oooo!” Used by Scott Kelby in The Digital Photography Book. [...]

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