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Book Trucks

Shelly

There is a book truck floating around our floor, with a hand-written label on it: books for X project. Only, the “b” looks like a “g.” Aieee! I keep meaning to quietly fix the unfortunate handwriting, but every time I see the truck, I don’t have a pen with me. And whenever I remember to find a pen, the truck disappears.

Speaking of book trucks, Unshelved held a “Pimp My Book Cart” contest. And there are more tricked out book trucks on Flickr.

One of these days, I need to get a picture of my boring, grey metal book truck. Today is not that day, howsomever. I should also get a photo of my cube, because it’s never, ever, EVAR been this clean.

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Welcome to My Brain

Shelly

I’ve been working on a bunch of books from Ethiopia. As I was tooling around Classification Web, looking for an appropriate subject and call number for one of them, I had a weird disconnect. I’d settled on Occupations–Ethiopia, which was fine. Only, when I went to find a call number to go with my nice, shiny, new subject, my brain suddenly decided that occupations–something that two seconds before it had understood perfectly well to mean jobs–were something of the military invasion variety. For a moment, I was confused to find myself in the HBs (economic theory and demography). That’s not the funny part, though. When I went back to the book, I had a “What the hell does this have to do with military invasions?!” moment.

Need more sleep and caffeine!

Also, this is Milton’s fault, oh yes, it is.

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Veggies

Shelly

A coworker has a ginormous garden that’s producing more than her family can eat, so she’s been bringing sacks of veggies to work with her: zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, and a variety of peppers. These are not the baseball bat sized zucchini that folks try to foist off on friends, relations, and innocent bystanders, either. They are tiny, baby veggies, with delicate skins and tender flesh. They are far superior to anything I’ve seen in the grocery store, and are organic, too.

She said that she’ll have tomatoes soon. I cannot wait. Grocery store tomatoes are ghastly imitations of the real thing. I remember real tomatoes, and I have high hopes that these will live up to my expectations.

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LOLGoths and Passive-Aggressive Notes

Shelly

Goth Macros (yr corrosions, sing them to me). It’s funny, cuz it’s TRUE! Warning: Not necessarily safe for work, and some of them are pretty offensive. [ETA: Now defunct. Alas. But there’s a LOLGoth Tumbler that might be a reasonable facsimile.]

Also, Passive-Aggressive Notes from Roommates, Neighbors, Coworkers and Strangers, a new favorite of mine. I do so love a good passive-aggressive note!

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It’s Baaaaack!

Shelly

Scott came over last night and raised my on-board Ethernet adapter from the dead. Yay! I am doing the happy dance of DSL joy right now bay-BEE!

He also got a laugh out of my bizarro drive lettering. It goes something like this:

A-B nothing
C-F multi-card reader
G-H DVD burners
I main drive
J slave drive
K secondary partition on I
L external hard drive

Consider for a moment that most normal PCs have their main hard drive mapped to C. Not having the main hard drive mapped to C results in problems like stupid software not knowing where to install itself. Worse, sometimes that stupid software is so stupid that it does not allow for the possibility of anything but a C main drive.

Good fun. Good, good fun.

Anyway, thank you Scott! You are Teh Awesome!