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.

Tag: Current Events

  • Current Event Wednesday: Snow Emergency!

    The big news in my world is that we are getting a sh*tload of snow. Seriously. Is it ever going to end? City of Spokane declares snow emergency The City of Spokane has declared a “Condition Red” snow emergency, which means crews will be plowing snow 24 hours a day, seven days a week until…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Current event Wednesday: mmmm. chocolate…

    Criminy I’m having a bad day! sigh. I need to think about something nice. Like Chocolate! Did you know that the South Americans were eating Chocolate more than 3,000 years ago? New research shows that they were: Residents of Central America were enjoying chocolate drinks more than 3,000 years ago, a half millennium earlier than…