> get lamp

I have copies of Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath by Carlo Ginzburg (1st American ed.) and At the Bottom of the Garden: a Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss up at half.com.

First Contact with the Vulcans is supposed to be April 5, 2063, people. We've only got fifty years. Let's get on it.

http://theoldreader.com/
http://blog.digg.com/post/45355701332/were-building-a-reader
http://lifehacker.com/5990509/best-google-reader-alternative (Hive Five voting, to be tallied later)

repasted from last night's post, where I edited them in today:

http://marketingland.com/12-google-reader-alternatives-36158
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/03/14/0617246/whats-the-best-rss-reader-not-named-google-reader
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101011-6-google-reader-replacements
http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

Enchanting Belarusian girls love to communicate with aliens !

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uh, thanks for the pro-tip, treacherouslyqsv22@bobandisabelle.com?

Book in hand to be cataloged: The Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings, 2012 reissue of 1969 with new foreword. The back blurbs say:

"What do you mean 'parodies are exempt' from copyright law?" --J.R.R. Tolkien
"Narcs? Boggies? This sounds totally fake." --Harry Potter
"Books haven't changed much, I see." --A man coming out of a forty-three year coma
"Guys, we filmed the wrong book." --Peter Jackson

My icon is probably in somewhat poor taste since my mother fell and broke her right humerus two days ago. :-/

I am amused that this book by Willie Nelson, entitled Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, is LC classed in ML420.

That's not actually a particularly amusing class - it means Literature on music—History and criticism—Biography—Individual. By subject of the biography, A-Z—Performers—Singers - but it's one of those coincidental oddities that can be amusing depending on your perspective, like how the Bible is classified in BS.

San Jose City College on lockdown, reports of a gunman on campus

ETA: All clear was given about an hour and a half ago. Apparently no gunman was found. Between that and the lack of actual shots fired, I'm forced to wonder if someone called 911 as a prank...

Gah. Google is retiring not only iGoogle, but Reader. Reader! Losing iGoogle is an annoyance because I like it, but I depend on Reader for so much of my daily internet intake. I've experimented with Thunderbird and dedicated software and so far I just don't like any other solution. (I don't like the various "whitespace is good, let's add as much whitespace as possible" design decisions Google's made about Reader etc. either, but there's a Greasemonkey script for that.) What on earth am I gonna do?

It boggles my mind that this decision would seem to imply Google thinks people don't use/need RSS anymore (or at least not enough to justify maintaining a service for it). I was confused enough about this with iGoogle, but at least there, the question of "how do they think I'm getting this content instead that I don't need this anymore?" had the short, vague possible answer of "apps." Do they think people aren't sending out content by RSS anymore? (Like, I dunno, every Blogspot blog Google hosts...) Or is it that they think people aren't bothering to subscribe to RSS feeds because the masses are getting updates some other way? But in that case, what is the expected vector...? (And even if it's "Twitter" or "Facebook"... the content has to get there somehow, and how else if not by rss?)

Does anyone know what is up with some LJ accounts getting suspended apparently at random today?

66.3% ( 16,233 of 24,491 ) precincts partially reporting as of November 7, 2012, 12:42 a.m.

Yes 30 Temporary Taxes to Fund Education 3,600,257 52.3% 3,283,989 47.7%

--Guys, this proposition directly affects how many people get laid off at my district and college and more specifically, how many may get laid off right in my department. The last "worst case scenario" cuts plan submitted to and approved by the Board of Trustees called for potential elimination (of course, it depends on more factors than this tax measure) of 6 out of 10 classified (vs. faculty or management) positions in the Library. Part of the reason the lists were done the way they were was to try to get it through the Faculty Association's heads that we cannot continue to function with a cuts-only scenario that involves no concessions from the bargaining units (pay cuts, furloughs, whatever), but still, the passage of this proposition is extremely important to turn a potential horrible clusterfuck into a still-very-bad-but-not-quite-so-impossibly-crippling situation.

Library gets hit disproportionately hard because we are considered "non-instructional", despite the fact that librarians are faculty and do do some instruction, under a law that requires 50% or more of the budget of the college to be spent on classroom instruction. So there comes a point where you cannot by law cut any more faculty and have to start disproportionately cutting into other things. I don't disagree with the purpose of the law - it's to prevent things like recently happened at SF City College where they had been spending extremely out of line amounts on administration. But in this particular case it means things, ah, suck to our particular ass-mar.