mental leftovers
First, a few vacation leftovers:
You can buy an iPod from a vending machine at the Minneapolis airport. Or at least you can when they're not all sold out.
There's always time for reading on vacation, and this time I managed two:
6. The book of general ignorance / by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. Not really much new here if you're a fan of the show QI, but lots of quite interesting facts for the rest of you. I had hoped to see some footnotes, more easily done with text than television, but there are none.
7. Oscar Wilde : selected journalism. Excellent explanatory notes! A must for any Wilde fan who's already done the plays, the poems, the stories, and the novel. I was wondering how many more times he'd recycle Baudelaire's line on food and poetry by the end, though.
Yesterday was National Library Workers Day , but there were no flowers or parties at my former library because the boss doesn't like the word 'workers.' I can't think of anything clever to say about library workers or weeks today since I'm half numb from the dentist, so enjoy some of last year's greatest hits.
Today, I read about St. Wiborada. I like a woman who walls herself up to learn and contemplate. Here she is with her book and axe. I think I'll raise a glass on May 2nd.
You can buy an iPod from a vending machine at the Minneapolis airport. Or at least you can when they're not all sold out.
There's always time for reading on vacation, and this time I managed two:
6. The book of general ignorance / by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. Not really much new here if you're a fan of the show QI, but lots of quite interesting facts for the rest of you. I had hoped to see some footnotes, more easily done with text than television, but there are none.
7. Oscar Wilde : selected journalism. Excellent explanatory notes! A must for any Wilde fan who's already done the plays, the poems, the stories, and the novel. I was wondering how many more times he'd recycle Baudelaire's line on food and poetry by the end, though.
Yesterday was National Library Workers Day , but there were no flowers or parties at my former library because the boss doesn't like the word 'workers.' I can't think of anything clever to say about library workers or weeks today since I'm half numb from the dentist, so enjoy some of last year's greatest hits.
Today, I read about St. Wiborada. I like a woman who walls herself up to learn and contemplate. Here she is with her book and axe. I think I'll raise a glass on May 2nd.