My college buddy at the Library of Congress (Hey! Debbie!!!) might need this: Nancy Pearl the Librarian Action Figure (with amazing push-button shushing action!). The figures are sold through Archie McPhee Her book, Book Lust, Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, looks like a fun read.
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Currently making its way around the blogosphere: the Country Quiz. Let’s see: You’re Thailand! Calmer and more staunchly independent than almost all those around you, you have a long history of rising above adversity. Recent adversity has led to questions about your sexual promiscuity and the threat of disease, but you still manage to attract a number of tourists and admirers. And despite any setbacks, you can really cook a good meal whenever it’s called for. Good enough to make people cry. Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid Woo-hoo! I have a bit of a rep, but great…
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That big desk in the Oval Office is just made for a big ol’ dirty game of cutthroat 2-handed spades… poor POTUS, so worried about everybody else’s sek-shul and po-litical bidness, and he’s still got nobody to play with (Cheney whoooo?? Vice President whaaaaa???). And even if he did, he still doesn’t have all the trump cards stuck to the underside of the desk with a half-chewed wad of Teaberry. (via the very manly PatriotBoy) ((dang, my family unit is unrecognizable under his amendment, too bad)) (((apron + pearls = Red Blooded American burqa: discuss)))
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Here’s what David doesn’t want to know about his recent experience with a major computer manufacturer’s tech support desk. Interestingly, the tech that helped David was not a giver, but a taker – he had to send his laptop in for repair, but all they did was replace the fans. I think I (heart) Ken, the tech with a &!%%#* heart of gold and a vocabulary of salty $#&*!!ing goodness. Thanks to ***Dave Does the Blog for the link to the article.
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Yep, it would be so cool to hang out with cool people who just won the friggin' Golden Globes for Chrissake, and also to be able to play the accordion yet maintain coolness. I am just bowled over that Ricky Gervais seems to go unrecognized, but then I'm a BBC American, we're funny like that. Seriously – what a fun life, although it's definitely one lived in the public eye. How odd it would be to know that untold numbers of strangers were checking in on your life, and whether you were treating your loved ones right (and wondering who…
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Blizg – Frequently Asked Questions: About Metadata Metadata added (whatever that is…)
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Oh boy! We’re drilling holes in the house! Things are done slowly, and sometimes not in logical order around here, but eventually they do get done. Although they might get done in strange ways — tonight, for instance, we tried belling the fish, and now our ceiling jingles, but we have successfully achieved a goal we’ve been working towards for several months now… very soon, there will not be electronic spaghetti dangling all over the back of the wet bar, and as of about 90 minutes ago, there is no dusty speakerwire trailing along the floor and threatening to trip…
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I added another stupid camera phone picture – this one is of a group of chads not exactly hanging around the door to the office, but they appeared to be loitering with intent. As this is an election year, I thought someone out there should know.
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It’s Steve’s birthday today! Three years ago we were in Maui with Steve and 5 other friends! Boy, do we wish we were there again. Boy, do we wish we were there again.
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So I wondered if anyone had done a “life cycles of blogging” or “stages of a blog”, and there’s at least the beginnings of one: Joi Ito quoted Ernie the Attorney who quoteed then-new blogger Steve Covell… about the stages of a blog: 1) There must be something to blogs because so many people are into it, but I don’t have a clue. 2) OK, it does seem kind of cool and there is much, much more to it than I expected. I just don’t see any really practical applications. 3) Oh my God, the things I can do with…