Half-Serious

At the Reference Desk (actually in the workroom):

1. OMG! 'Students Help Yourselves'? So unfair! What about us starving non-students? Strike! Strike!
2. Then I turn to the table and see this wonderful home-made cake!
3. Then a student brings over a burrito from some event just outside the library! At the same time, someone from Access Services says they've got a bunch of trays from yet another event and could I help clear them out? Are you kidding? Here's a picture of the final haul. It's too much!

MPOW: When you're taking a class, on the first day of the term, they hand you a 'syllabus' which outlines the topics you'll be covering, the textbooks you'll need, etc. Traditionally it's been on paper -- though I can imagine one being completely online. That's good since apparently there's nobody else who can put together such a system for one of the bigger schools here. Thank God, I've got nothing else to do...

Went to sleep looking at new web template; Woke up noticing that one of the div's (i.e. sections) wasn't aligning properly; Reached over to laptop near bed and right-clicked for 'inspect element with Firebug', got information about the styling markup.

And then I thought: Is this what one million years of evolution has brought us to?

I got a stern warning from Facebook telling me that I might be "blocked from commenting on public posts" if I went through with posting the following strong words on a post originally by Tony ('Maakies') Millionaire about chickens being found with caffeine in their feathers:

As someone who in a former life actually was a chicken, I'd like to strongly object to the arrogant assumption by pampered human beings with double vowels in their names that chickens don't appreciate coffee. We do! In fact, it's common knowledge that coffee beans were first plucked out of the soil by enterprising chickens -- long before humans even stopped swinging in trees.

You know, when we look up the dress of a 26-foot statue in the middle of downtown, we have every right to expect the butt we see there to scream, 'Chicago' from cheek to cheek.

So if they ever do this again, I suggest they use Mrs. O'Leary maybe or Oprah Winfrey -- clad of course in nothing but a bra and girdle. That way they'll have someone with connections to Chicago (finally) while still appealing to boys in 5th grade.

Wonderful! Look what Amazon's recommending to me. Not only do they think I'm a vegan but an overweight vegan at that. I'm devastated.

1. Move in the Winter.
2. Move in the Winter -- with you doing much of the work yourself along with your trusty hand-truck.
3. Redesign the website at work while everyone's off on vacation -- and you ought to be schlepping boxes.
4. Embark on a 2nd ambitious web project before the first one is complete (see above).
5. Install that brand new copy of Adobe's 'Master Collection' (CS5) even though you know you could probably do without it for the next week or two.

So this is what the big boys are all excited about? 'Fat tweets'? The ability to tease out a whopping 141 or more characters in a completely text-based messaging system? Can we resurrect the telegram while we're at it?

Is the New York Times in love with Apple? Or did they just not have anything better to write about this week? Here's the first screen of today's 'Technology Section' in their neat 'Skimmer' format (larger image here).

Of the 18 articles on the first screen, 7 are about either the iPhone, the iPad or a commentary on whether Apple's getting too big for its breeches.

And that's okay but maybe for the sake of accuracy they should rename the thing the "Half Apple Section"?

Please, people, stop sending me this crap email spam! You say you were all mugged in a park near your hotel in Wales? Congratulations!

Who knew that Wales was such a dangerous place? But in any case, you also say you're all stuck there now? What's wrong with that? I'd love to be stuck in Wales!

So stop sending me this crap email spam! Just calm down -- all of you -- and enjoy the place!