Random Thursday (ˈrandəm ˈTHərzdā): the day on which Sarah plunks down all the odd bits and pieces she’s been sent by friends or has otherwise stumbled upon this week in an effort to avoid writing a real post, the assembly of which usually ends up taking twice as much time as sitting down and creating actual content.
I had Labor Day off Monday, so Tuesday was Monday with a T, and then I was home sick yesterday (and probably should be today, guh) so today is sort of the new Wednesday, except isn’t raining cats and dogs and salamanders and lungfish out there and I have back-to-back meeting all day, so it’s actually Monday with a W.
Or a Th?
I’ve lost track . . .
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Oh, $#!%—Someone Noticed
I don’t know whether to laugh at the grammar
or be annoyed that the sign maker wasn’t severely hushed
before s/he let the cat out of the bag.
(Thanks to Watson, for bringing this to our attention . . . )
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Inspiration Is Where You Find it
I was going to share a fantastic video my husband found,
featuring a 74-year old woman playing blues guitar
in a way that would make Albert “Ice Man” Collins sit up and notice.
But in the end, I had to go with my artistic integrity
and personal knowledge
about what kinds of accomplishments
truly inspire me:
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Tuesday, I was covering the Reference desk
when our system software went down
and we lost the online catalog for a hectic forty minutes.
I would now like to officially apologize to Dr. Linh
on behalf of my cataloging class
for all the nasty things we called him
when he forced us to memorize the general classification schedules
for both the Dewey and LC systems.
But I think we all stand by what we called him after the final.
Jerk.
(I can’t remember who sent me this—Watson? Caitlin?—but thanks!)
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Tetrismare
Did you know that the 30th Anniversary edition of Tetris®
(remember Tetris®?)
is currently being offered as a free Android app
at the Google Play store?
It’s true!
All it’ll cost you is most of your time
and a significant chunk of your sanity.
Trust me on this.
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Fuzzy Logic
Those little silver squiggles have been circling my vision again, so I’ve decided to lighten up on caffeine, find some work to do at the library that doesn’t require me to stare at pixels for hours at a time, and also give myself two days without contacts to give the ol’ eyeballs some fresh air.
Since my unenhanced vision is perfectly adequate at distances of up to five inches, I’ll naturally be wearing my glasses, the lenses of which are exactly as thick and heavy as you might imagine they would be for anyone with five inches worth of distance vision.
This means that once or twice during my work day, I’m going to have to remove my black plastic nerd glasses—if they’re good enough for Clark Kent and Adam Savage, they’re good enough for me—for a while to rub some feeling back into my nose.
The problem, of course, is that when I take off my glasses, I’ll either have to stop reading, or bring the pages within five inches of my eyes, which will interfere with effective nose rubbing.
Luckily, MinutePhysics is here to save the day!
With SCIENCE!
Earful of Cider 
I happened to have known that little trick for reading without my glasses. I also happen to be a nose rubber of Olympic ability.
Hope you feel better.
Nice to know I’m not alone, Paul!
Thanks—the headche is remains, but at least the throat hedgehog has moved on. 🙂
That librarian gang sign is hilarious.
Hilarious, yet thought-provoking, Downith. 😉
Ha! Don’t F with the Librarian Gang.
I’m a fellow glasses-wearer at the moment and I feel your pain. It’s all fun in games until they come off and I hit my nose with book in an attempt to read.
I’ve just run out of books though, so, (panic attack…) there’s always that glass half full…
No, ma’am. 😀
You’ve RUN OUT of BOOKS?!
What you need, my friend, is a gang of librarians . . .
I hate it when the online catalog goes down! Thank goodness I work in the back room and don’t have to deal with patrons. (Except yesterday when 2 international students wandered into the room and tried to ask one of my student employees to help them with an Interlibrary Loan problem.)
Does the Librarian gang have colors? A secret handshake? Do they at least ride motorcycles? I am thinking there might be a story there.
The patrons were remarkably patient and one was astounded I knew where the vegan cookbooks were without computer help—I didn’t tell her I’d helped someone find ’em the day before. I’d rather be The Magic Library Lady. 😀
I made ’em into a quasimilitary group with body armor and HushMaster 3000 personal protection weaponry for Nanowrimo once. Does that count?
Only if I get to read it. ; )
And yay for Magic Library Lady.
Gimme a couple years to bang it into shape . . . 🙂
I’m not very good at Tetris, even without the curved bottom evilness you have pictured. I instead play one of those connect-a-line games, which it isn’t timed so I can be slowly and thoughtfully terrible.
Neither, as it turns out, am I, Caitlin. But I persist.
If I were this determined to get to the end of my latest chapter . . . I’d already be getting to the end of the chapter after this one. 😛