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Monday thoughts on a Tuesday
From Jon Udell's Library Lookup Project (for all my favorite librarians:)
A nest of pirates. I was shocked to discover a nest of pirates yesterday, operating brazenly right here in my hometown. They were gathered in a large nondescript building, reading and talking quietly and in some cases listening to music. Some kind of social club, perhaps? ( Read more... ) -
AAUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I suspect it's a really bad sign that my heart practically STOPPED for a minute when I first read this headline:
Researchers consider scrapping the Internet, starting over. -
Weather report
We had hellacious weather here last night. It seemed to spring up out of nowhere - one second it was sprinkling lightly and the next the wind caught my screen door and slammed it back against the front of the house. I was afraid it was going to tear the thing right off the hinges. The siding on the house moaned (it does that when there's a high ( Read more... ) -
Another good word
Bricoleur: A person who engages in bricolage; a person who creates things from existing materials, is creative and resourceful: a person who collects information and things and then puts them together in a way that they were not originally designed to do - from the French-language verb bricoler, meaning "to tinker" or "to fiddle" - the French ( Read more... ) -
Let me make this perfectly clear...
Ad from my email account: "Original German Movie Posters - German movie posters are movie posters from Germany for the discriminating collector of German movie posters." -
Just because
floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion [flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuhn] -noun Rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). [Origin: 1735-45; < L floccī + naucī + nihilī + pilī all meaning "of little or no value, trifling" + -fication] ( Read more... ) -
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Well, my sister gotch'd me yesterday - she called and said, "Guess what I have?" Given her recent puppy lust, I guessed a puppy, but she said, "No, a kitty!" Oh, dear. The last thing this woman needs is another critter, since she has two dogs, two horses, and four other cats. She went on to tell me that she had been birding down by the river ( Read more... ) -
It would be funny if it wasn't so damn annoying
Yahoo, AKA Yahell, has lost its tiny little mind and is sending anywhere from 3 to about 14 copies of most messages. When I went to check my email this a.m. I had 30 new messages (usual overnight count is about 8-10), and most were duplicates. Also, all of the Yahoo *groups* I'm on are having the same issue, so I get digests that consist of 11 ( Read more... )
