Nero Tolerance

[footnotefetish]

I saw Star Trek on Sunday with clockworkalien, bryanhelm, speranzosa, Joe, and locakitty. I've never been a Star Trek fan, but for some reason I really wanted to see it. It was as good as I anticipated.

Earlier in the day the six of us played a game of Super Scrabble at Rincon Market. I wish we would have had time for another game, one is better than nothing

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[shellcase]

What is "Super Scrabble"? How is it different from the normal game?

Most non-ST fans are liking the new film while big fans are divided over it. I read the plot outline on Wikipedia and wasn't impressed with the storyline. I have read it is mostly a Kirk-Spock lovefest with little attention paid to the other classic characters.

[footnotefetish]

Those two definitely steal the show. Not having seen much of anything else from Star Trek lore, I don't really know who the other main characters are. Sulu was important for one stretch of the movie, and Uhura was intermittently important.

Super Scrabble is roughly twice the size (in spaces and tiles) as conventional Scrabble, but it adds new premium spaces to the game: Quadruple Letter Score and Quadruple Word Score. The outer three rows of spaces are the new addition to the game; within those rows, you have the same space layout as you would on a conventional Scrabble board. It's pretty fun--and great for accommodating a larger group of players (even if it only comes with four racks--but you can borrow more from another Scrabble set, if you have one).

[locakitty]

I think the best thing about it was that I *finally* got what Uhura's job was. It was nice to see that she was this really intelligent person, not just some hawt chyk with her finger in her ear. :)

of course, i'm a pretty big fan, but loved it anyways.

[ladyinthewater]

I am all for airport parking; esp if it eases the stress when you return. You walk out, get in your car and drive away!

[footnotefetish]

I understand totally. I enjoy my banter with friends, but sometimes after air travel, I just want to go directly home, enjoying the quiet. And after being in crowded planes and airports, I don't always want to be around anyone.

[anonymous]

Thank you! I'm also reluctant to bug anyone if it doesn't fit easily into their schedule. I fly out Wednesday morning, May 27, and return the next Wednesday evening, June 3. I can get you the exact times once I'm back at my office and have a better Internet connection. If it works out, that would be cool, but if not, I can pay a few bucks for parking.

[flw]

I wouldn't get too angry at the Library for this situation... in the game of lending free books... they seem to be the only game in town. Libraries have hold copies and shelf copies. In other words, when a book is very popular, they always try to keep a few copies ON THE SHELVES, or more particular on the upfront shelves that people have to walk past to get to the computers or DVDs. The reason for this is to serve the walk-in people, or people who are computer-shy, or just browsers... people who haven't read a book since college. If they hear about a book on the NPR and go to the Library and the Library doesn't have it, and ALL COPIES are ON HOLD, they get pissed and never try the Library again. It is very important that these types of people get a bit of preferential treatment, because the first trip to a Library in years can be intimidating. There is great, great, great pressure to turn Libraries into Public Babysitting Services with 9,000 copies of Harry Potter and wall-to-wall computers. So, anything that keeps books a part of the

[footnotefetish]

I understand totally. I think it would take a lot for me to actually get angry at a library or librarian. I guess I hadn't considered that they need to accommodate the aliterate crowd, if that's the term for them. (LiveJournal just underlined aliterate as if the word doesn't exist, but I think I read once that that's the term for people who know how to read but don't bother reading--or maybe only do the bare minimum of reading they need to get by in this society.) I suppose a lot of organizations have to do that; for example, history museums have to appeal to the people who are indifferent to history, for the sake of having the visitor numbers to justify their grants and other funding. And that can be annoying to those of us who would naturally go to these places and require more maintenance, since we want to consume more of their knowledge, services, etc.; too much of their time (from our perspective) is spent tossing pearls before swine (to state it more irreverently than I wish, but that's the first way of wording it that came

[flw]

It seems to me that this change is quite recent. There might be something going on, they might have budget cuts or who knows what. The library here is crap compared to the library in LA, which is garbage compared to the Library in Pittsburgh, which was amazing... I am just falling down the Library Ranks.

When money comes into the picture, a thing is all about the money. So libraries here make no pretense of serving literacy. They are in it to secure funding, and if they can't do that, there is little chance of there being a book on the shelves at all. I do think the Library is corrupt here, though. You have seen what goes through the Friends of the Library.

They buy 500 copies of Harry Potter, and one or two Vandana Shiva. And you will find Shiva at the Friends of the Library in a few months. The whole system is suspicious. There's a lot of money moving through.

[footnotefetish]

You've noticed it, too, huh? I swear, working those book sales, I have to wonder if someone at the PCPL is taking gifts (or having an affair) with one or two reps from one or two book distributors. I've been back in the warehouse area, and I know there's an ungodly number of books in there. People who have only seen the sale area are only seeing a fraction of the books they have. In spite of that, you can be putting out books and still see many multiples of one book