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Rent-a-cake?

March 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Or at least, a cake pan:
Check out a cake pan from your library
Apparently they have Spiderman and enchanted castles!
Because I’m a librarian, my first thoughts were: a) that must be expensive to send through interlibrary loan, and b) which low-level employee gets stuck with scrubbing the poorly cleaned cake pans? I know, I’m such [...]

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Tags: Libraries · Links

Ten! Years!

March 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the immortal words of Jeremy Piven in Grosse Pointe Blank: “Ten years! Ten years! Ten! Years!” Yes, believe it or not, I have owned this domain for an entire decade. It’s been home to everything from passive-aggressive collegiate angst to stories of my travel adventures to this YA lit [...]

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Tags: Musing

“I want you so bad, I feel it in my thighs”

January 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Now that I have your attention, please enjoy Twilight High School Musical.
Thanks, Martini-Corona!
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Tags: Links

I just went back in time…

December 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

…on the internet. (I mean, how else would you do it?) Last week I bought a mini-VGA to video adapter and a headphone jack to audio cable adapter, and now all of the beautiful streaming video of the internet is available for viewing on my television. One $25 purchase is a hell [...]

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Tags: Links

A break from reviews for a geekgasm

December 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Via my dear friend Eric at The Oyster’s Garter:
Who would win in a fight, Capt. Picard or Darth Vader?

I showed my 8th graders the tree octopus page today, by way of teaching website evaluation in a way that didn’t make them start snoring and drooling on their computers. “Why would anyone make a page [...]

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Tags: Links · School