This Beer's for You

Another cool post from Death & Taxes.

This post dedicated to Mark and Thom.

Black History Timeline

Take a look at this fascinating mashup on the Death & Taxes blog.

Sunday comic

"In a gas station today.The candy bar doesn’t scan, so the cashier holds up the bar and, in a thick accent, calls to the other employee:
'Spunow is same price as Snickers?'
It took me and the other employee about a minute to get what she was talking about."

From blogadilla, June 18, 2008

I miss being a library patron

Something I am really looking forward to about being retired is being a patron at my local public library. (It's years away, but that doesn't mean I don't think about what life will be like then, now. It's not very zen, but it's nice to daydream.) I cannot remember when I last browsed the shelves for something to read in a library. I do it at Barnes and Noble or Borders sometimes. Even better is Inkwood, browsing in the indies is excellent. But I love doing it in the library, I love being surprised to find a new book by a favorite author, and that is just not how it is when you work in the library. Anyway, reading this blog post on Library Garden reminded me. And curiously, also made me think about knitting. You can knit linen, hemp? Guess I'll have to speak to Judy, this book isn't in our library. Yet.

My second most favorite blogger!

Thom (my wonderful and very cute son in law!) met my second most favorite blogger (my daughter is my most favorite) last night and oh, how I wish I lived in Brooklyn again. One of these days....

Dooce Rules!

My favorite blogger, Dooce, won big time at the 2008 Bloggies in Austin!
And now I have to check out all those other winners with really cool names.

Blogging, blogging, everywhere

You may know that the reason I started this blog was to have a training tool for library staff (and that includes me). I'm on the team for Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative's Library 2.0 training and everyone who participates will need to have a blog to use as a sort of a workbook. Finally the training is beginning and we have been posting to the hcplc = Lib 2.0 blog since Monday; in January the actual lessons will begin. I also was given the green light on Tuesday to start to use a blog to communicate with my staff. Susan's Libraries won't be of much interest to anyone who isn't my staff, but the training blog might be, especially if you want to learn about this web 2.0 world.

Home Fires

On this New York Times blog, five Iraq war veterans talk about what they experienced both in Iraq and back at home. They blogged for a while during the summer and now they are back. And they are amazing; it's well worth your time to read some or all of this. Don't miss Brian Turner's Oct. 7th posting, Verses in Wartime.