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Month: November 2007
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Taken yesterday. I’m stoked. I can take “blurry water” shots now!
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This has been talked about a little around the office the past few days: The new Amazon e-book reader, Kindle. Here is what the New York Times has to say about it: Sure, the idea has appeal: an e-reader lets you carry hundreds of books, search or jump to any spot in the text and…
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A young man came up to the reference desk today and asked to use the phone. He was around 12 or 13. He had some trouble dialing the number and had to give it about 3 tries. On the 4th try he whispered aloud, “where’s the send key! there’s no send key!” but then he…
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The biggest news for this week is that I got a DSLR finally! Today! I’m so stoked! I got a Pentax K10D. It’s awesome. Now I need to learn how to use it. And probably get a new computer to hold the massively large files this camera is going to take. I went to my…
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Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr was another contender for the National Book Award this year. It’s the story of a girl (heh) who has a past. A girl with a bad past. At the young age of 13, Deanna is caught by her father having sex in a car with her brother’s best…
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