Friday, March 28, 2008

flickr thingie

Hmmm. Having problems following directions and got sucked into flickr for way to long at work. I am hoping i just have to link the photo to finish the thingie. Picture is of

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79035923@N00/245012241/

Went looking for pictures of Antartica/Mcmurdo because I just finished a book that has something about Observation Hill down there. There is a marker for a lost exploration party who somehow ended drifitng out to sea on an iceberg. It has a quote from Tennyson's Ulysses - "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Great quote, bad way to die.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

librarians have a way cool job

You see, wire telegraph is kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signal here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
-Albert Einstein