wifi, and rocking

our library finally went wireless last week, which was quite cool.  and no delinquent child has since tried to steal the box which houses all the wireless technologies.  yet.
since it’s a trial we havent gone all out to promote it, but gradually people are discovering the library hotspot as an alternative to the cafes in the [...]

the virtual library stalker

there is a library patron who has recently taken to spamming the virtual library service staff with questions about how the library catalogue search functionality works.
we give him an answer and he replies immediately with search and item scenarios that don’t fit our answers.  it’s as if he’s constantly sitting at his computer waiting for [...]

breath

 
tim winton’s latest book, breath, is finally here. it’s not available in bookstores until next week, but it arrived at the library a week early. needless to say i have read it. 
its set in a fictionional town in the south west coast of wa – somewhere near margaret river – in the 70s. being chicken enough to [...]

fixies for chicks

do exist

timelapse video of a guy stuck in an elevator for 41 hours

The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He [...]

how do you say ‘all aboard’ in swedish?

my biggest regret of the moment is not visiting the new ikea store when i was in perth last week.
however, i now realise that the perth store is not the biggest thing in ikea land right now – it’s the kobe store in japan  which is celebrating  its opening by redocorating a monorail train completely ikea [...]

the bride wore hot pink

hardly the bogan wedding that i was expecting, all of the guests ended up travelling to donnybrook from melbourne or the uk anyway.
had never been to donnybrook before, and i dont think i ever will again. not sure what one does when they go on vaction to places down that way. apple picking??

library war 図書館戦争

Put my two favourite things together and this is what you get – TOSHOkAN SENSOU. The action comedy anime adapts Hiro Arikawa’s popular novel about battles fought to preserve libraries when a new law threatens to clamp down on freedom of expression in 2019.
See the trailer here.
I hope they translate this into english.

m1

i opted for single speed, with back brakes and sensible tyres. those without are kind of dangerous when I am the driver.

this is why

this is why i think that my ikebana teacher is the best in australia and i can only aspire to reach the levels of creativity that she has.  look at the amazing composition of the container, the materials, the background screens and the wooden poles to the side.
this was shown at the recent melboure international flower [...]