Thing #41

Live Mocha. I liked it. The only disappointing thing was that I wanted to brush up on my Latin, and that is not an option at this time. I chose French instead. I'll probably keep up on this, as it's pretty cool. It is entertaining as well. The fact that they show a heavyset woman who is standing there and point at her and say "Je suis grosse" is just rude....how very French! hahaha! And they show a little girl pointing at her grandmother saying "you are old!" Just good stuff here! Try it out! What do you have to lose? It's free!

Thing #40

Retroland......hahaha.....groovy baby! Who remembers this? Intellivision. I wasn't allowed to have any video games, but my friend Kristen did. We played Pong and all those games from back in the day! Oh, yeah, In-freakin'-television! Blast from the past....screw Atari, we had the ghetto version!

I Should Get Paid to Complain

So I sent a nasty little email to Animoto about their major malfunction, and they fixed it right away! And they gave me a credit of a full length animation to boot! Yep, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and I can squeak with the best of them! I felt like bitchin'! But, hey, look who I work with,.....ahh....the student surpasses the teacher......

My Minions

Welcome to My Parlour

Thing #39

So this Animoto thing would be cool if they had a functional website. I tried to sign up around 14 times and it kept telling me that I was missing login parameters. To which I give a resounding "NUH-UH". They clearly are malfunctioning. I shall have to try this again, when they decide to have actual competent individuals running their site. I was getting so pissed off that I wanted to throw the computer, so I stopped at that point. I may deign to try their ineffectual little site later. Morons, I hate technology that doesn't work.

Thing #38

Thing #37

Pandora. Radio Station. Place a sample band you like, they build other songs/bands that are sim-u-lar. Same old same old. Tried to download LastFM here at work to try it, but surprise, surprise, got to have administrative clearance to do it. Apparently we librarians are inherently untrustworthy, and only want to look at porn all day! Gotta watch them librarians!!

But seriously, not bad, pretty cool alltogether!

Station is on the right....

Finnian the Mantis-zoi Thing #36

Finnian the Mantis-zoi
Originally uploaded by fitzroy74

Ahhh...Picnik. Photo editing is cool. They had this groovy Halloween skeleton font too. Had to add a little bit of adolescent Finnian in his very best impersonation of a preying mantis! He is much bigger now, but this is one of his funniest pictures to date, hanging on the couch. I like the photo editing abilities. The auto adjust is great, since it picks out what should be done, without your needing a great pool of knowledge to do it yourself. It's free too!!

Thing #35

Ahh....Twitter...and Jaiku. Good ideas for keeping in touch. I, however, don't feel the need to be touched that much. Don't really care to be touched at all really. I mean, I am, after all, the Evilibrarian. We, as a general rule, aren't that touchy feely. I firmly believe in personal space. I can't imagine the need to have people be able to contact me that readily.

But seriously, they seem cool and all for the college age and under crowd, who are constantly IMing, and planning for their evenings out. I find it entertaining that you can update it so that people can know your every move. You can even put up an I'll be driving icon on your account, just in case they want to reach you. Jaiku seems to make it easier to find people, but to become a member, you have to wait for an invitation.

I don't think that this is technology that I'll get much use out of, since I don't know many people that would be using it, and that is the key issue here. You can't send someone a Tweet if they're not Tweetin' with ya. Get hip, man!

Thing #34

Fit Day and Nutridiary are kinda cool options for those looking to watch their weight or keep up with an exercise regime, etc. Nutridiary offers a bit more for those who need others to keep them on track. I found one of these calorie counting sites that also tells you calories burned for certain activities. It was The Daily Plate, found it in a library journal of some sort many moons ago. I thought it was pretty cool. Check it out...www.thedailyplate.com

Thing #33

What can you say about Mr. Picassohead, the String Spin thing and the sand art? Not getting the point here. Mr. Picassohead was the favorite here....hopefully, I can successfully attach my wondrous work of art....The Pompous Frenchman...

hmmmm...difficult, difficult...I don't think it will let me post it here, but since I know you're all just dying to see it....here is the link...

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/canvas.html?id=df1905b

I shall be available for autographs at an as yet unspecified time....

Thing #32 Omnidrive

Many cool things about Omnidrive. Fooled around with this at home, just getting around to posting about it now. Nice feature to combine it with Zohowriter too. It is convenient in the same way as Plaxo in that it adds portability. No need to be tied to a single computer or laptop anymore! And it provides a backup spot for filing! No crash worrying anymore. I liked the photo editing feature as well. No need to purchase the additional editing tools like with Photoshop either...just PRESTO!....and zoom, it's done. Cool stuff, this online portable crap!

Where to Bury A Dog

Found those pictures of my Azrael the GSD and my Luthor the GSP, and felt they deserved a place on the ol' blog! They were good friends of mine....

Where To Bury A Dog
There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.

For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman

Gone From My House, But Forever With Me

Some Things Are Just Too Perfect For Words....

Before I finish entirely with Thing #32, and this blog just becomes entirely my own personal self aggrandizement of my animals....I simply must put in this breathtaking picture of Mr. Does No Wrong, Golden Boy, No. 1 Son.....Ch. Nickolai Tabret Rainier C.G.C. Delta Society Pet Partner.....a.k.a. Hamish the Therapy Dog that comes to the library....now a retired show dog that gets to only do whatever he wants to do.....like show in the Veterans Sweeps classes....and get stupid little prizes for it!! Really, no other dog could EVER look this handsome....and I own quite a few quite attractive other dogs....(yes, even the Terrorist pales in comparison...) their day shall come.....just later.....I must be off now to make sure he gets his bedtime snack of fruits and vegetables....he must keep fit and trim to keep the younger pups in line, and he IS aware of the importance of proper nutrition in the older dog....you didn't REALLY think he ate...gasp!....dog biscuits, did you? How terribly pedestrian of you.....I am appalled!

Plaxo Thing #31

Plaxo has some cool capabilities. Importing your Outlook Express info, like contacts and calendars is a cool way to carry important stuff with you wherever you have access to the Internet. A little concerning to have all of that info just flapping out there online however. But it could be a neato convenient way to have all of it on hand, rather than toting it around in a work bag or a laptop from place to place. Plus, you wouldn't ever forget someone's birthday, Valentine's day, anniversary....boss's day....you get my drift.....I had some problems with importing some things but that always seems to happen. Once you get past that initial set up crap it is pretty "spiffy" to use the recent hip terminology from Administration to describe our new "Special Delivery" logos here at the old library.....