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fictionalized answered your question: Library blog update:
They’re a great shortcut- if I’m just scanning reviews, the two things that I like being able to sort reviews by are genre and rating.
Thanks for your input! Now to decide what kind of rating format to use… hm….
Library blog update:
So it turns out that
A) my library is using some random blogging thing, NOT tumblr
B) We will have creative freedom with our blog HOWEVER there are high professional standards for posts and they have to be approved before being posted
C) This whole blog thing gives me an excuse to mess around on the computer when I don’t have anything else to do, much to the consternation of the bitch coworker, who thinks I’m just slacking off. Seriously, I spend forty-five minutes in MS Paint messing around with a rating system, since I didn’t want to deal with a copyright issue so I thought I’d make my own.
Question: How important do you find ratings when it comes to a book blog?
Personal update:
My personal computer died, so I have to use the parents’ computer until I can manage to get my own. So unfortunately, posts will be sparse for at least a couple of weeks.
Sorry :(
Oh man. This book is just like geek nirvana. All these little tidbits about the sets and the characters and so many beautiful pictures of everything…it makes the sadness of Firefly’s end lift a little. Just a little. Not to mention the hilarious stories of what these people got up to on set. For example, the story of Monkey Shines, an orange stuffed monkey with an annoying screech that disappeared and the truly awesome ransom notes. TRULY AWESOME.
And the dastardly kidnapper? Well, I’ll let you read that for yourself.XD
ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE WORLD FOR THIS ONE, MATES.
(Source: amazon.com)
My dear patron,
If you shove your seventy bazillion items into the book slot and then run as fast as your stubby little legs can carry you to the hold shelf, grab your book, and try to check out, guess what?
You might not be able to. Because I’m still checking your stupid shit in, you colossal asswipe. Then you get upset that you can’t check out, so I clear my screen when I’m only halfway done. And then, FUCKING THEN, you complain that you don’t have all of your items checked in so you don’t know if you have any fines. What do you think the book slot is, a magical portal?
Do you really have a brain, dipshit? Or did you fill your headcase with jello and call it a day?
Many unhappy returns,
A Library Clerk
I’m not a huge Potterhead by any means, but this book intrigues me. I love to bake, and some of these recipes look like a lot of fun (possibly to spring on unsuspecting relatives). So if you like Potterverse and want to have delicious or not-so-delicious-on-purpose foods so that your taste buds can remember the wonder of Rowling’s world, this is a book for you. Especially since it has both conventional recipes that were eaten in school as well as the more unusual ones, like brown bread ice cream.
Not to mention the descriptions of the areas where these foods are eaten and direct references to the chapters so you know you’re eating authentic Potterfood.
(Source: amazon.com)
O.o Library are you drunk?
So the library I work at is doing a blogging thing on their new page. I’m one of the potential bloggers (which could either be awesome or horribly soul crushing.)
And none of us know what website the library will be using for their blog. I heard Tumblr was suggested.
NO. NO. NO.
THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR FAMILY FRIENDLY LIBRARY BUSINESS. SERIOUSLY? TUMBLR? WTF?
SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR BADNESS.
I’ll find out what’s going on next Wednesday, and will update you all accordingly.
I didn’t even need to read the back to know how ridiculous this is, but let me give you an excerpt :
The author explains the true story of the Grail: how it contains the secret super-science of the sun and the higher orders of spirituality; how it was carried to England by Joseph of Arimathea; how in A.D. 453 it was found by King Arthur, who engraved it with the same esoteric information found on the Pyramid of Inscriptions in Palenque, Mexico, and the Gateway of the Sun at Tiahuanaco in ancient Peru.
Really? Regardless of how ridiculous the legend of the so-called “holy grail” is, using King Arthur? Whom most historians consider either complete fiction or an amalgamation of different leaders in that era? I’ve provided the link if you want more lolz.
(Source: amazon.com)
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Wait, seriously? I mean, I haven’t personally gone through menopause, but I highly doubt there are secret pleasures. Hot flashes hardly fit that description.
Suggestion for improvement “Illicit pleasures of menopause.” Adding ‘illicit’ just makes it sound naughtier, and therefore better.
(Source: amazon.com)
Dear library patrons,
If you put your seventy items one at a time through the slot I will be forced to come around to the other side and beat you with one of them.*
And heaven help you if you have your children put their ten thousand books through by themselves.
