Musings and observations from the Tower of Darkness
I'm listening to NPR and I hear the expression " charismatic megafauna". "Say what?" sez I, and it's off to Google to find out what the heck that is. My search led me to a nifty site called "The Word Spy."
This is just completely and utterly cool! Before I fell into computers, I was a library technician, and this is really cool library geekdom. To wit:
The Open WorldCat pilot is an initiative that integrates library records into popular Internet search sites and tests the effectiveness of the Web in guiding users to library-owned materials. The goal of the pilot: to make libraries more visible to Web users and more accessible from the sites where many people begin to look for information.
What Web users experience
A Web user who uses Yahoo! Search, Google or other search sites to locate a particular item may be pointed to a library that owns the item based on records in WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive bibliographic database.
Here's today's cute quizzy thingy, pilfered from DocTOC.
Irreverent, sensible and entirely work safe (unless you work with touchy fundies).
The Serenity movie site is up! Go, read, have fun! (nicked from Doyce at Average Bear)
The Gamer's Nook: We Wish! A short, clean and terrifyingly accurate Bush joke from the strange mind of Scott over at the Gamer's Nook.
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So, over lunch I dropped into one of my favorite Wiki's, the Firefly Wiki, only to find that the main page had been vandalized. I was, naturally horrified... and it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to restore it.
Yeah, I'm obsessed with Firefly... this from Fireflyfans.net -- Jewel Staite is blogging as well!
I figured since Nathan and Adam and who knows who else have been posting on here and keeping you guys up to date, I might as well, too. I just bought a new lap top and am very anxious to use it! (If I can figure out how to use it). "Serenity" is a dream come true. Working with these wonderful people who love their jobs so much, every day, all day, is just awesome. WE ARE BACK!!!! Some things have changed, but not a lot, and no, Adam, I'm not giving away any spoilers. I can say this, though: Joss is a genius. This script is truly one of the best I've read, and I'm incredibly honored to be doing this film-- his first film-- and my first film as a lead (!). How exciting is that!! There hasn't been a bad day yet. Even with dust in your mouth and suncreen running into your eyes and sweat making little pools under your boobs... this is still the best job I've ever had. Thank you thank you thank you to the fans out there. Your continued support makes this whole experience even more enjoyable. I'll write again soon!
Jewel
I just discovered, courtesy of my local public library, Cowboy Bebop. It's difficult to explain this anime in brief terms. It's part private eye, part western, definitely sci-fi... hmmm, kinda like another favorite of mine, Firefly. And yet very different. It looks like I can get the whole series for around $30.
| How to make a jaewalker |
| Ingredients:
3 parts mercy 1 part self-sufficiency 1 part ego |
| Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of lovability |
ER star Noah Wyle has signed on to play the title role in TNT's upcoming fantasy telefilm The Librarian, which will be executive produced by Dean Devlin (Independence Day), TNT announced. Wyle will play the caretaker of a repository of humanity's greatest secrets hidden beneath the New York Public Library, which includes everything from the Golden Fleece to the Ark of the Covenant, the network said.
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