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11 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Of Interest to Gamers

This post is a bit of a departure from my usual posts, so I hope you’ll excuse a proud wife. For my gamer readers I wanted to point out that my husband’s RPG, Bulldogs!, has been published. It was a big hit at GenCon this year and is a top seller amongst FATE based games [...]

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01 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Off Topic: A Review of StarCraft II

I posted this on my husband’s game blog, but I’m a bit annoyed and this site has a wider reach Maybe I’ll get some good support if I post in multiple places. First thing you need to know about me. Before meeting Brian in college the only games I played were minesweeper, solitaire and Oregon [...]

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07 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Handling Budget Cuts

This made me giggle!

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26 June 2008 ~ 4 Comments

More fun with Wordle

I wanted to try Wordle again. I decided to put in my resume from LinkedIn and my Publications & Presentations to see who I was according to Wordle. My Wordle Originally uploaded by nengard I see this as an addicting little toy … what else can you create a Wordle tag cloud with?? Technorati Tags: [...]

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15 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Citricon: Library Defender

This sounds too cute not to share with you all. Orange County Library System has created a new game to promote gaming in their library: What has the Orange County Library System been up to lately? We just made our new flash game, Citricon: Library Defender, live! Aliens have stolen the Library’s books, DVDs, and [...]

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10 May 2008 ~ 2 Comments

RSS for TV Addicts

Well – real TV addicts have DVR or Tivo or some such way to get new episodes, but if you can’t afford those and want to keep up with your new TV shows, mytvrss looks pretty neat!! Select your favorite shows below, and then click “Create feed” to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We’ll [...]

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06 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves & Our Association

Last night I got to hear Stephen Abram talk about the future of SLA & librarianship. First (and most important) I have uploaded my pictures to Flickr. Stephen started with a mini rant (a good rant) about the fact that there is no proof that the book is at risk. Reading stats are going up [...]

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14 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Entertainment Weekly Celebrates National Library Week

Well, maybe it’s not the best way to celebrate National Library Week, but it’s always fun to look at pictures of libraries. In the features titled: 18 Sexy Trips to the Stacks Entertainment Weekly shows pictures of scenes in libraries from 18 movies.

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21 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

This is why we blog!

Well – maybe not – but it totally sounds like me sometimes!! Via xkcd.

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17 February 2008 ~ 7 Comments

It’s like heaven for librarians (and booklovers)

I followed a link from Kimbooktu regarding a new way to store my books and found this post about the amazing staircase. The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing [...]

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