Monday, November 13, 2006

Just for the heck of it, I'm going to try to blog all the questions I answer tonight.

  1. I just put the DVD in the DVD player - now what do I do? (5:45pm) [Press Enter on remote]
  2. How do you spell sleep like a a persons sleep? (5:55pm) [asleep]
  3. Reading lists for adults? [The 10 Most Damaging Books to CivilizationHuman Events lists the 10 most damaging books to civilization in the last 200 years judged by 15 conservative figures are as follows:
    1. 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes, 1936
    2. 09. Beyond Good and Evil, Feidrich Nietzsche, 1886
    3. 08. The Course of Positive Philosophy, Auguste Comte, 1830-1843
    4. 07. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedman, 1963
    5. 06. Das Kapital, Karl Marx, 1867-1894
    6. 05. Democracy and Education, John Dewey, 1916
    7. 04. The Kinsey Report, Alfred Kinsey, 1948
    8. 03. Quotations from Chairman Mao (Moa's Little Red Book), 1966
    9. 02. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, 1925-1926
    10. 01. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, 1848
    11. The blog author where I found this would replace Compte with How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Manning Marable, 1983]
  4. Directions to Joanne Lane, Champaign...from Francis Drive [Google Maps]
  5. What city is Notre Dame in? [Let me just look that up...'But - you're a man! Don't you know?!?' South Bend, IN]
  6. Where on the Internet can you get free games? [Play games or download games? Play. http://www.freearcade.com/]
  7. (Instant message) how do you find the height of a traingle? (7:00pm) [ http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.03/danielle1.html]
  8. (Phone) What Texas university is in College Station? (7:01pm) [Texas A&M]
  9. I just finished watching a DVD - now what do I do? (7:10pm) (Press Stop twice to Eject dvd?)
  10. Do you have the book "The world's greatest treasury of health secrets" (2006) [No. Worldcat ILL request placed]
  11. Researched local history resources for upcoming Cub Scout visit. [ "Champaign: A Pictorial History" by Raymond Bial., browsed Local History 917.366 Cen; About.com "The radiator was invented by American, William Baldwin.", Britanica ]
  12. Where is the Festival of trees? [ Hilton Garden Inn 1501 South Neil Street, ChampaignNovember 16 - 19, 2006 http://www.juniorleaguecu.org/html/festival.html ]
  13. Lots of information about the play 'Gint,' Peer Gynt and Henrik Ibsen [Magill's, Wikipedia, Infotrac Literature Resource Center, etc.]
  14. Shakespear interpretation (general - 822.33) MacBeth specifically (Essential..., etc.) Infotrac Literature Resource Center.
  15. 4 crossword puzzle questions [Stu Sutcliffe, Teena Marie, Easter Island Monolith, and AOL Buddy List; used Google]

Also, checked/straightened the mens room, filled out Hot Ticket for the broken toilet in the mens room, fixed the drawer at the Info desk, listenened to Kristin playing cello at a program in Children's, skimmed through a Library Journal (good article about Reference Blogs using WordPress) and crunched through 100 ILL requests....

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