Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Random

Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • Current Event Wednesday: Iowa

    The big news today are the Iowa caucuses. It doesn’t seem possible that we are here already! 2004 seems like yesterday. Remember Howard Dean? What an exciting and hopeful time that was! I find this time around to be pretty exciting, too. I really like all of the candidates (of course we’re talking democrats here).…

  • Current Event Wednesday. Winter storm 2007

    There is absolutely nothing in the regular news that is interesting me today. Well, except for the fact that we are all gearing up for a huge snow storm that is supposed to come through at any time (great). So, instead, I will tell you about a really fun new Flickr feature that I discovered…

  • if I had a superpower

    Topic #14. If I had a superpower what would it be? Flying would be cool. But I’m afraid of heights. How about flying without the fear of falling? Wouldn’t that suck? Having the power of flight and being afraid of heights?

  • Current Event Wednesday: Amazon e-book reader

    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…

  • An observation

    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…