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While I’m thinking about books
Does anyone have any thoughts about GuruLib, Shelfari, and LibraryThing? So far I think GuruLib has both the best feature (list books borrowed from a library using information pulled directly from the library’s database) and the absolute worst interface. OMG does it suck. Shelfari OTOH has a really beautiful and, more importantly, functional interface but lacks a good way to mark books that you have read but do not own.
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Bitter sweet return
I know what I will be doing on the afternoon of March 3rd: East Lake Library Grand Opening I am really happy that the building is finally completed and am looking forward to using the facility. What I am not looking forward to as much is how the current financial troubles in the Minneapolis Public Library system are going to effect how and when I can use that facility.
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Recent Reading: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
I’m not going to say much about “A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore. People who like Christopher Moore will like “A Dirty Job”. People who don’t like Christopher Moore will not. If you don’t know if you like Christopher Moore be warned that Mr Moore takes his whimsy very seriously and as long as you can keep up with his introduction of impossibility you should do just fine. While not nearly as surreal as Robert Rankin they inhabit nearby universes, neither of which is your own.
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Recent Reading: Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
I finished “Dark Cities Underground” by Lisa Goldstein yesterday, and I’m still having some trouble figuring out exactly what to say about it, but I think I need to say something. To begin with, I really adored the idea behind this book. While it isn’t entirely original, it is a very nice twist on several similar ideas seen in books by Jasper Fforde, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Robert Rankin and is related in many ways to movies like “Stranger than Fiction”.
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Resistence is not always futile
Some days at work it takes the absolute maximum effort not to walk up to people and say, “I told you so.”
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Left Behind
So in a pretty quick turn of events, my main character in World of Warcraft has been stranded on one server while my guild left for another one. Somewhat surprisingly, I’m only a little irritated with the guild. I had only recently come back after a very long hiatus and most of the current members of the guild I do not even know. Still, it was quite a shock to login after only being off for just over a week because I was busy with real life to find all of the old trusty guild stuff suddenly unavailable.
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Hidden Gem
[Amblypygid](http://amblypygid.livejournal.com) and I just got back from taking the kids to see the [Firefighters Hall and Museum (IE Only)](http://www.firehallmuseum.org/) in NE Mpls. One of the volunteers gave us an excellent guided tour showing off all of their ten antique and otherwise old fire trucks, spanning everything from hand carried and pumped to semi-modern diesel engines and all the equipment to go along with it. All of the equipment is restored and being kept in excellent condition.
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Flash Game: Tumbler
Great fun, but not for people who get motion sick.<br /> http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/tumbler
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Scribble 2
Found a fun game ([via Game|Life](http://feeds.wired.com/~r/Gamelife/~3/82076684/scribble_2.html)) called [Scribble 2](http://www.armorgames.com/games/scribble2_popup.html):<br /> [<img src="http://www.jmtb02.com/scribble/2847.jpg" width="350" height="150" border="1" />](http://www.armorgames.com/)
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Can’t keep it down
Then employees began seeing Flubber rising like the undead through cracks in the pavement. from The Engines of Our Ingenuity [episode 1903](http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1903.htm)