Farewell, Twenty-Three ...

As my unofficial farewell to 23 Things, I offer my all-time favorite comedy routine: Eddie Izzard on Technology. It's a continuation of the video posted on the 23 Things blog, although this video features Eddie himself instead of the great little Lego cartoon. This video also features the full routine, which is wonderful, because once he gets into printing at five in the morning, it goes from delightful to awesome. I love it!

There's also something so sweet about his closing remark, I nearly tear up. Enjoy!  :)

(WARNING: There is a bit of language; be warned!)

"Week Nine" -- Two posts in one day!

I have a thing for lighthouses, so choosing which flickr photo to go with wasn't that hard. This is a gorgeous shot (and why can't my photos ever come out this well?). (Alright, granted, occasionally they do, but it is usually when I wasn't actually particularly trying.)

I didn't bother to set up a flickr account of myown -- I'll wait till I actually get some photos off of my digital camera to do that -- but I can definitely see the appeal, particularly if you're something of an amateur photographer and want to make it easier to pass along your best shots to family and friends.

(It would also be another way to put up photos of library programs and events for our webpage, come to think of it ...)

Anyway. As for my video -- YouTube being something I've spent quite a bit of time on -- my love of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (the first few seasons, anyway) and my, er, not-love of "Twilight" made my choice of video pretty easy (and quite a bit of fun):

Enjoy!

 

"Week Five" -- In which I actually compose a second blog post

So it's actually been many weeks since Week Five, but I'm the Teen Services Librarian in the middle of Teen Summer Reading and, when it's Teen Summer Reading, and the choice comes down to drafting Twilight questions for your trivia challenge program or getting anything else done, TSR always wins out. Such is the life of the Teen Librarian.

But it's a Saturday morning on the Reference Desk on a semi-quiet morning (this won't last the day, mind; I'll come back from lunch and it'll be as if a non-stop revolving door was installed at the front of the library while I was out, and patron after patron after patron will be in, one after the other, keeping me pleasantly hopping until closing) -- for now, though, I've got a bit of a chance to play catch-up.

Which is how I found myself jumping onto the eiNetwork catalog this morning to try my hand at downloading an eBook. I wish I could say it was complicated (not because I'm wishing undue complication on myself, but simply because it would make for a longer blog entry after all my neglecting of said blog), but it wasn't. I did an advanced search in the catalog for a favorite author of mine with the Material Type set to "Ebook," and after a few clicks I was staring at the cover of a downloaded copy of Lisa Scottoline's "Daddy's Girl." (Yes, I've got a thing for legal thrillers. No, I don't understand how that fits in with the sci-fi and fantasy love, either. Go figure. Does the catchphrase "Denny Crane!" mean anything to anybody out there? No? Well, we all have our quirks, I suppose.)

I fiddled a bit with the digital reader, jumping to different pages and playing with the layout, before I decided to try another type just for the heck of it and did a search for any eAudio Scottoline in the catalog, hoping to find an audiobook for my new iPod. Unfortunately, the one I wanted, "Courting Trouble," is not in the virtual library's collection, but it was still interesting to try the search just the same.

I don't think I'll be bothering much with ebooks for my own use (I spend enough time staring at the computer monitor as it is at work), although it might come in handy with patrons someday. Lack of Scottoline aside, however, I will most certainly be trying out the eAudio books for my own use. I'm sure there's some other legal thrillers out there waiting for me.

"... Denny Crane."