rooku

Athenaeum Library
I shelve romance
& turn to crime
i just dont get time to blog during the week as i have been quite busy of late, hence the number of consecutive posts here today. this is the last as I head off to get some real work done. i just wanted to bring attention to this great rooku, which is australian [...]

white gadgets

I have a confession to make and it’s that I have a penchant for white gadgets. 
not having the patience to wait for apple to realease the iphone here in australia, I yesterday wandered into a phone store and bought a new phone, for no particular reason my old one still works perfectly, on the superficial criteria being that it was sparkling [...]

kevin 07

 
 john howard is out. my faith has been restored in australian sociey.
i remember witnessing the last federal election in 2004, having  a month prior returned to australia for good after being overseas for a period long enough to only think of australia being an eternally sunny and carefree place to live (because that is how others think [...]

bikes and tats

whilst the inner city melbourne suburbs are undergoing mass gentrification, the particular block where I live (melrose place) seems to be bucking the trend. in the course of a week, a tatto parlour called ‘the third eye’ has taken the place of the hairdressing salon to the right of melrose and to the left, what [...]

this is what i didn’t see at the melbourne cricket club library

 
love the white gloves, which are required if you want to read the cricket book. and i have no idea why katy us attempting to climb the shelves of a library which she doesnt even work at.
over dinner i casually enquired if the staff had ever seen any famous cricketers using the library [in an attempt [...]

feng shui at the ath

the athenauem library has a lucky cat who sits high on one of the shelves and welcomes patrons with gentle wave of her battery powered left paw. apparently, since the arrival of lucky cat, good things have been happening [the librarian in the background is a lucky cat impersonator in her spare time].

the libray also [...]

the rehab group wouldn’t even accept me

this is kind of the post that never was. earlier this week i was all excited about visiting the Melbourne Cricket Club for the ALIA  Victorian Special Libraries end of year dinner and tour, but because my life is so shit right now I got caught up in a bibliographic record deleting crisis and had to [...]

free lice

this is probably a bit nerdy, but no doubt some of you will find it fun.  Free Rice is an alternative to aimlessly browsing through others’ facebook friend lists (and discovering bizarre degrees of separation) or spending a night watching random YouTube vids to find amusement in the discomfort of others (see Halloween violence post below).
Free Rice is a [...]

i think im losing the plot

we are just about to  [less than 4 wks] ‘go live’ with a new library management system and staff are already dropping hints to me that if things fuck up its all my fault. well, it kind of will be my fault as I was the one who had the responsibility of the data mapping [...]

i am not into violence but

this is my new favourite youtube video