Week 4 Thing 8* Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian

I found this on my rss feed. I thought you might like to see it. I think i'll keep this feed and try some new ones

Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian

Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do.

Many people think of librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about "Sssh-ing" people and stamping things. Well, think again buster.

Librarians have degrees. They go to graduate school for Information Science and become masters of data systems and human/computer interaction. Librarians can catalog anything from an onion to a dog’s ear. They could catalog you.

Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate subject headings.

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.

Week 4 Thing 9

I checked all the different things suggested by Merlin. I found them all confusing. I was able to find feeds but nothing i was really interested in. I tried finding library feeds and i did find ala but it did not have a feed line

Week 4 Thing 8

I've set up my bloglines account and I've really enjoyed getting mail from the dictionary. I get a new word each day. Great voc. builder. I am still working with the rest of the things under week 4.

Week 3 Number 7

I was speaking with one of our customers and he was telling me that he has invented a gadget to translate languages. So if you are speaking to a frenchman he can talk to you in french and this invention will translate it and you will hear it in english. I know that there are other gadgets out their that do this but his incorporates some new digital technologies. I don't think he has pattened it yet so that I do not want to get more specific but it sounded like it would be easy to use small and easy to transport. I hope he is successful as his gadget sounds like something i would like to use.

Week 3 Thing 6

I played with mappr for a while and found that i could not do what i wanted to do. I wanted to map where i've been and perhaps see where i will be going. I found that i would need to upload pictures first. I think i am not quite ready for that. Perhaps sometime soon i will try to get this going. For now the exploration was fun and a little frustrating.

Week 3 Thing 5

Machu Picchu
Originally uploaded by Alexander Yates

Machu Picchu
I had a little trouble with this but as you can see I was able to get it done with a little help from my friends. The pictures of this ancient site are fabulous but not as great as seeing it up close and in person. I got this picture from flickr but the picture at the bottom of the page is one i took.

I tried to find a picture on flickr of Machu Picchu and post it on my blog however i was only able to get the url from there. So I found one of my own pictures and was able to post it via my email. It all seems a bit complicated to me, maybe because i am new at all this.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johncarlossf/542134094/

Thoughts on flickr

I looked at flickr and found it to be interesting. Are we supposed to post a picture? Jenny showed me some of her pictures on flickr. I think i will try to post one.

Week 2 Thing 3

I hope to have some fun with this blog if I can figure out how to get back on it. Signing up was easier than i expected.