Misc thoughts
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I found out that I won a Nintendo Wii....for my library. The PLA conference had a booth with Baker and Taylor, and I took a second to sign up. Lo and behold, I got an email that said I won (for real, not in the publisher sweepstakes sense)!
It's still pretty exciting, though the system hasn't come in yet. Just in time for summer programming too.
Can I make an observation? I love labyrinth like used book stores. The ones with piles of old books lined up in narrow, weaving corridors, made out of some converted housing. I visited one in Minneapolis and nearly drooled. Discarded university and church archive books, vellum binding, stuff in Latin, the works. Piles and piles of stuff laid on top of each other, lining nooks and crannies in a concrete floor basement, piling up on the floor itself till it's hard to move. I actually got lost. It was awesome.
I know a number of people don't care for the NBA, and my team, the Pacers, isn't even in the playoffs, but I'm really enjoying pro basketball on TV this year. Lot's a good games, and I can tell an overall increase in quality of the play from a few years back, at least amongst the teams that get TV exposure.
I still try to catch Indy car whenever I can, and was surprised to see Danica Patrick finally won a race today. I'm not sure if the fact it wasn't live, and therefore will be on tomorrow is a good or bad thing. I'm not a "Danica fan" or of the belief that she needs to be a superstar for Indycar to survive, but I do recognize that she brings in viewers. To me, Indycar is simply more fun to watch than NASCAR, where there's not nearly as much passing, the cars are noticeably slower, and half the drama seems to revolve around whether someone's going to intentionally crash someone else. So I was hoping that more people would watch it to see the novelty of a woman driving competitively, and maybe become hooked on the race itself. But I suspect that's just wishful thinking on my part, a product of Hoosier pride and really finding the idea of Daytona being "bigger" than Indianapolis extremely annoying.
I found out that I won a Nintendo Wii....for my library. The PLA conference had a booth with Baker and Taylor, and I took a second to sign up. Lo and behold, I got an email that said I won (for real, not in the publisher sweepstakes sense)!
It's still pretty exciting, though the system hasn't come in yet. Just in time for summer programming too.
Can I make an observation? I love labyrinth like used book stores. The ones with piles of old books lined up in narrow, weaving corridors, made out of some converted housing. I visited one in Minneapolis and nearly drooled. Discarded university and church archive books, vellum binding, stuff in Latin, the works. Piles and piles of stuff laid on top of each other, lining nooks and crannies in a concrete floor basement, piling up on the floor itself till it's hard to move. I actually got lost. It was awesome.
I know a number of people don't care for the NBA, and my team, the Pacers, isn't even in the playoffs, but I'm really enjoying pro basketball on TV this year. Lot's a good games, and I can tell an overall increase in quality of the play from a few years back, at least amongst the teams that get TV exposure.
I still try to catch Indy car whenever I can, and was surprised to see Danica Patrick finally won a race today. I'm not sure if the fact it wasn't live, and therefore will be on tomorrow is a good or bad thing. I'm not a "Danica fan" or of the belief that she needs to be a superstar for Indycar to survive, but I do recognize that she brings in viewers. To me, Indycar is simply more fun to watch than NASCAR, where there's not nearly as much passing, the cars are noticeably slower, and half the drama seems to revolve around whether someone's going to intentionally crash someone else. So I was hoping that more people would watch it to see the novelty of a woman driving competitively, and maybe become hooked on the race itself. But I suspect that's just wishful thinking on my part, a product of Hoosier pride and really finding the idea of Daytona being "bigger" than Indianapolis extremely annoying.