Short review of the new Joss Whedon film Serenity:
It rocked my face right off. Seriously. I’m looking around for my face right now. Has anyone seen it?
Go see this movie right now so that Joss may make many more of these.
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Month: September 2005
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The Disneyfication of us
I only realized a couple of days ago that I hadn’t added our copious Disney trip pics to the flickr account. I’m still adding them (we took an enormous amount of pics) but the ones that are there are cool. I like this pic of Bets and I at Epcot.
For the record, the hat was a necessity to keep from killing myself. I burned the first day I was there, and my face and neck had to have some shade. It’s not just that I’m rocking my new Tennessee-ness.
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Squid? Or Savior?
I’m sure that most people have seen by now that the first ever film of a live Giant Squid (Architeuthis) was captured by some Japanese researchers, and stills from the film have shown up at National Geographic.
But I think something more is going on.
Is it just a coincidence that the Squid reveals itself to us now, after all these millenia? Choosing now to come forward and appear before our cameras? I think not.
Behold! The truth!
These Giant Squid are the messengers of the One True Being: The Flying Spaghetti Monster. They are truly created in His image, and low he has given unto us their smaller brethren as tasty fried snacks. Truly He is a benevolent entity.
This also explains why we are to dress as pirates in worship: because it reminds us of the times when we were on the sea, and closer to the Messengers of the FSM (rAmen). Many pirates may have indeed been touched by their noodly appendages, and brought closer to the FSM in so doing. This also brings into the realm of Holy Scripture such works as Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, wherein a Holy Messenger attempts to convert Ned Land and the rest of the crew of the Nautilus.
I am in awe of the revelation of the grand designs of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You should be too.
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TENN-Share, and thoughts
I spent last Thursday and Friday at the Nashville Public Libary attending a small conference made up of Tennessee Libraries called TENN-Share.
The venue was really quite nice…the Nashville Public Library is in a wonderful building. However, none of the technology worked as it should (basically all presentations were done without computer assistance) and when a major portion of the program is Federated Search, that’s an issue. Also, for a major metropolitan library to not have wi-fi? Whassupwidat? I had planned on live-blogging the sessions, but NO wi-fi left me in the technological dark ages.
There were a number of good sessions, especially the ability to see different vendor products and be able to ask questions about content and usage of those products. It was also a great opportunity to meet other Tennessee librarians and network a bit…something that I haven’t really had a chance to do yet here.
Due to the majority of Thursday being about federated searching, I learned a lot about a word that was unfamiliar to me. De-duplication. Possibly this is because I haven’t done sufficient real database work, but I had never encountered the word before. I’d used the classic deselect, a grand old library term for remove from the collection. Patrons tend to be less excited about that when you use a word they don’t understand.
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Me and Mom
Ok…this is just wrong. Hurricane Rita is now a Catagory 5, and may strengthen further.
Two Cat 5’s in the Gulf within a month of each other? AND we’re about to run out of hurricane names…all we have left this year are Stan, Tammy, Vince, and Wilma. If that happens it would be the most active hurricane season in recorded history.
But global warming…nah, not a big deal, right Mr. President? I suppose the Salon article is right…if you can’t even admit that evolution is a fact, how can you possibly be asked to understand Global Warming?
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Testing
I just moved my blog and site from ibiblio over to LISHost (Thanks Blake!) and am curious to see if everything is still functional.
If someone wanders by, could you leave a comment? Or if you can’t, let me know.
EDIT: As far as I can tell, everything seems like it’s working wonderfully. I’ve set up forwarding via .htaccess on the old www.ibiblio.org/griffey/wp address, so you’ll still get forward if you have links to it. But if you can, swap anything over to the new official www.jasongriffey.net address. But the .htaccess should keep anything from breaking severely.
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Graffiti No. 2
Another graffiti picked up around the library. This one is a bit more surrealist.
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Arrrr!
Today be th’ official Talk Like a Pirate Day. If’n ya be a scurvy dog n’ want to read th’ blog as it’s meant to be read, you can read the translation here. This is also the grand high holy day of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, be ye touched by his noodly appendage.
Avast! I’ve been re-christened with my true pirate name! What’s yours?
My pirate name is:
Dread Pirate Flint
Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!
For more pirate goodness: the Flickr tag for pirate.
Arrr!
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Graffiti No. 1
I’ve decided to start blogging the more interesting images that I find around me. My Razr has come in terrifically handy for capturing my favorites…mostly graffiti and signs that I find interesting/humorous/both.
Here’s one from my library, from one of the men’s restrooms.
