Sometimes this blog is for you, my loyal readers, but much of the time it’s just for me. Here’s a list of library blogs I wish to peruse later this week. People who write blogs that have crazy fans instead of loyal readers sometimes get lavish gifts. If any of you is even slightly crazy, please send me a working scanner. I’ll post all sorts of crazy shit from my vast collection of thrifted cookbooks.

(OK, my scanner works, it just has a strange band of color distortion partway down every image. It was free with my computer.)

Oh wow, man. This blog should keep me happy for the rest of the night. Tardblog. Memepool totally rocks.

And may I add (later) that the tardfaq totally sums up my job, too. I love my job, but if I didn’t make fun of some of my patrons and co-workers in my off time, I would totally lose it. But I won’t be making a blog of it- my blog is how I escape… whee!

“The lion is a deadly, wild beast. Hey, why don’t you stick your hand in her mouth?” Lots of good quotes in this one. I think my favorite right now is “The limb was not recovered because other lions pounced on it.”

Apologies to both our loyal readers for the lack of new content lately. Family illness and a slow news season have interfered with keeping up. Speaking of the State of the Union et al., I wonder (he asked, semi-rhetorically) if people actually in the nuclear industry are any more or less likely to mispronounce “nuclear.” Based on my observations (including the Bush dynasty), people associated with the CIA are far more likely to say “nucular” and do not take well to correction (no, I’ve never tried to correct a Bush).

Note: The first bush article linked above indicates that Bush Sr did not mispronounce “nuclear.” I thought I remembered otherwise, but could well be mistaken.

So, of course, on the night that there’s an internet-wide (as far as I’ve heard) Denial of Service attack underway, I have the midnight to eight on-call shift. Yawn.

Apparently, extremely dire things are happening in Hong Kong. This is from my usual source of things that leave me speechless. Check out the schematics, though.

Why, it looks as though Hugh Laurie, brilliant comedian and author, may be modelling corsets in Seattle.

Noted futurist Dan Bern will no doubt be pleased to see that his prediction is coming true. As soon as they realize that putting barcodes on babies isn’t early enough to prevent all mix-ups, I have no doubt they’ll start putting them on fetuses in utero.

In a ruling that appears to me to call into question the common-carrier status of ISPs, Verizon has been ordered to reveal the identify of one of their customers who downloaded 600 songs in a day. They are not doing so immediately, pending appeal. The DMCA is a ridiculously over-reaching piece of legislation that accomplishes no public good.

“‘We’re starting our decent now, buckle up. It’s gunna’ get bumpy,’ he yelled over the defining engines.”

It turns out that the youth of today don’t read enough to write well. They’re pretty much just writing phonetically at this point.