« September 2004 | Main | November 2004 »
October 27, 2004
Read
Read shush.
The stuff about the ALA Washington Office is on target. Why do they feel the need to spam local and state listservs with thier opinions. I don't spam Washington's site with Florida liberal nonsense.
OK now off to bed.
Posted by Matthew at 11:43 PM | Comments (0)
October 24, 2004
Kerry's wife is African!
THK is from Mozambique.
She was also a Republican when she was married to Senator Heinz. Teresa Simoes Ferreira was a daughter of wealthy parents her father an oncologist and tropical disease specialist. She was sent to the finest schools to learn .... well apparently how to marry rich men no matter their beliefs.
So here is another foreigner telling us how we should run the country by electing her liberal tax and spend husband.
Posted by Matthew at 02:24 PM | Comments (0)
MT makes my hair fall out
Moveable Type and TypeKey which allows only registered users of TypeKey to add comments are still causing me grief.
As we get closer to the election I will have more to say...especially since I have stopped answering the telephone as it is always someone trying to influence my vote.
So I have temporarily given up on TypeKey until I have more free time to figure out what I am doing wrong. Make all the comments you want, but I am still removing the ones selling stuff. I am not removing the ones that disagree with me, just the ones hawking crap at other websites.
Posted by Matthew at 02:19 PM | Comments (0)
Few show up for Dems' celeb rallies
38 people showed up to see Rosie O'Donnell in Florida the other day. The Drudgereport had an interesting article about it.
Earlier in the week Cher mumbled some nonsense about Superior Court judges to a largely gay crowd of just a few hundred who were give free drinks as Cher's CROBAR nightclub.
It seems that the most vocal Kerry supporters can't get anyone to show up to give the illusion of solidarity. You would think that the headliners on the GBLT (no that's not a new sandwich) circuit would be able to swing a crowd for Kerry. At least it would have given the domestic partners something to get dressed up for.
Well nine more days and we'll see what Americans really want. I don't expect it will be has been singers who don't know what the Supreme Court is and hefty vocal lesbians.
Posted by Matthew at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2004
Is Dick Cheney what?
Today at the reference desk:
"I need the latest book by that woman writer with the hair."
Notarization
Copy machine broken.
Hand out patron print job X ~20
Check out computer during 15 day period when user may but are not required to have a library card. X~8
Listened to complaints about needing a library card come the 15th X ~16
Is it Dick Cheney that is the lesbian presidential candidate? (No, but I believe Vice-President Cheney's daughter is a lesbian, can I locate information about her for you?)
Do you have change? ...Yes ... patron walks away.
Stolen bicycle, kid walked home, mom came back and asked if we had cameras on the roof. No.
Some woman told me all fun things about Guadalajara. It came up in conversation as I was looking for restaurants there in preparation for my IFL trip.
Plant inside tilted like it has hurricane damage. Held it up with rubber bands and rulers. Very little dirt in the pot. I'll have to get more dirt. Overwatered plant.
Helped patron make color copies of Cambodian money. It had to be double sided and look exactly like the real thing. Probably going to be doing time in a Cambodian prison for making fake 1000 Riel notes worth a quarter.
Copy machine broken again.
5 minutes moving stuff in my hot closet of an office and 20 minutes sneezing from all the dust.
Posted by Matthew at 11:33 PM | Comments (0)
October 05, 2004
Typekey thing, my day
The typekey thing may or may not work. I still have some testing to do.
I recall a blog, although I can't find the link right now, in which a reference librarian recounted his day. It was uproariously funny, but it was all true. Unfortunately he only kept at it for a year.
I think I may move to that style of blog as politics makes me want to cave my own head in like a ripe melon struck with a 12-pound sledge. So more minutiae and less politics it is. If you want politics (from the Latin poly meaning many and tic meaning blood sucking vermin) watch FoxNews if you want true-life drama ....well you ain't gettin that here either.
But if you want the curiosities of library life, then this is the place. And it will be a little more frequent now that my baptism by fire is over- as far as I can tell.
Posted by Matthew at 07:04 PM | Comments (0)