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.
It’s been dark and dreary the past few days and I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. I miss Mr. Sunshine.
Thanksgiving was fun, though! It was a beautiful, sunny day. I went out on a little walk in the morning and then went to my mom’s house for dinner. It was really nice to see my brothers and their families.
The washing machine is fixed! On a hunch, Rafael plugged it into another outlet and it worked! yay! Now we need to get an electrician in to fix the faulty outlet.
I love my new camera. I’m having fun with it. But not as much fun as I would like, since it’s so darn dark. ugh.
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 bump up the type size when your eyes get tired.
But the counterarguments are equally persuasive. Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still be readable 200 years from now.
So e-book readers keep on coming and keep on flopping: the Rocket eBook Reader. Gemstar. Everybook. SoftBook. Librius Millennium Reader. The Sony Reader is in stores even now, priced at $350 and making literally dozens of sales.
Then on Monday, Amazon introduced its own e-book reader, called the Kindle. It arrives at $400 — reading material sold separately.
Are they completely nuts?
They go on to review the product. But why bother? It’s another e-book reader. BFD. Call me old-fashioned, but it’s gonna take a miracle to replace the printed book. You can’t curl up with a computer. I don’t care how small and convenient it is. It just doesn’t have the same appeal as a book. Good luck with this one, Amazon.
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 got it figured out (probably when the ringing started on the other end).
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 friend Marilyn’s retirement party this afternoon. I was the official Paparazzi. It was fun!
Washing machine is still broken. Went to Mom’s house to do my laundry this morning and my little brother made me breakfast. (awww!)
hmmm. I think that’s it for this week. I’m hungry so I’m going to go jet. L8rz
It’s been dark and dreary the past few days and I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. I miss Mr. Sunshine.
