Librarian's Rant - Comments

Louise: Leavin' on a Jet Plane

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:12:54 -0400

Family member is not well, but that was to be expected. All other folks were fine, and lovely to see. Concert was even better than expected - went with my balloon friends, and had a great supper after.

Flights were godawful, as usual. Missed connection, got stuck in DTW. Found out they have a spa (!) and got myself a massage. Nice!

I am the Queen of Making the Best of Things. Probably why I became a librarian...

And thanks for asking

Louise: Does that make me a Master of Evil?

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:07:18 -0400

Cheers, thanks!

Laura Solomon: Does that make me a Master of Evil?

nospam@example.com (Laura Solomon) — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:57:38 -0400

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Jenna: Leavin' on a Jet Plane

nospam@example.com (Jenna) — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:10:02 -0400

I hope everything went well--family member in good shape, excellent flight, etc.

Louise: Today's News

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:25:29 -0400

Excellent points. I'm sure the conspiracy theory will live on - they'll just have a harder time getting historians to play along.

John: Today's News

nospam@example.com (John) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:18:37 -0400

I don't see in the article any suggestion of how many bone shards were discovered - evidence of death, or evidence of loss of limbs? There's a difference.

It also doesn't state that there is evidence of when the heirs died. It seems that it is being assumed that since the shards were found in the same forest where their parents' remains were found, they were killed at the same time. Is this assumption valid?

If I don't normally wear a tinfoil hat, and can come up with these two objections, I'm sure those who have a stronger desire can come up with even more. The myth will live on.

Dances With Books: Enough Already

nospam@example.com (Dances With Books) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:59:01 -0400

Actually, what I am worried is that the people will end up re-electing the bozos, thus proving that maybe the nation is exactly that way. Let's be honest, people are not exactly smart if they re-elected them last time.

Astrodon: Harry Potter Film News

nospam@example.com (Astrodon) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:38:54 -0400

Which begs the question -- why didn't they split the other movies?

Louise: What Value Library Services?

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:39:26 -0400

Sometimes genealogy resources are centralized at a state historical library or similar, rather than kept at libraries. It's a lot of work to maintain a local history collection, and usually takes additional funding and staff. I'll have to ask my friend if they have such a collection - if they do, yes, they need to add it to their calculator, since genealogy researchers use a lot of time - and staff time, often - to do their research. I'll ask her!

John: What Value Library Services?

nospam@example.com (John) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:21:34 -0400

The calculator is a great idea, but it's strange, either Santa Fe and Chelmsford (upon which Santa Fe's calculator was based) don't have any microfilm in their library, or microfilm research is categorized under a different heading that I'm missing.

I am at my local library every weekend now doing genealogy research, mostly in microfilm, and with both calculators, I end up with a lot less value than I should because I have nowhere to categorize my primary activity. Maybe I should classify it under computer use, but a microfilm machine isn't a computer.

Louise: Spring in the Midwest

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:46:11 -0400

lol. well, I normally don't mind the cold. When I lived in Cleveland what I minded was the gray! Here in Iowa, we have lots of sunshiney (if killer cold) winter days

Astrodon: Spring in the Midwest

nospam@example.com (Astrodon) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:13 -0400

What you have to do, my chilly friend, is move to Phoenix.

Jenna: Chocolates, hearts, flowers...and condoms.

nospam@example.com (Jenna) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:29:41 -0500

Hey Louise,

I hate Valentine's Day, too, not just for its Hallmark-iness, but because it's more likely to make single people feel miserable than partnered people feel good.

I'm all for celebrating love, but not so much in this compulsory everyone on the same day kind of way.

Great idea on posting the condom link.

Hearts & hugs!

Melissa: De-Cluttering My Mailbox

nospam@example.com (Melissa) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:07:41 -0500

Thanks for the mention of our GreenDimes service which plants 10 trees for each membership. Actually, we also eliminate 90% of your other junk mail in addition to the catalogs. It frees up a lot of time for me on the weekends, not having to sort through all the extraneous mail.

Louise: Class Act

nospam@example.com (Louise) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:25:02 -0500

I agree he's where he needs to be...for now. My dream is to see him in the Cabinet of our next (Democratic) President in a year. His expertise needs to be used on the Federal level as much as possible.