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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket
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7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hadjiboy, you seem pretty sincere in your desire to not hurt anyone with this post. However, it's worded (that all caps WHY?, especially) in a way that implies you are inviting us to come look at some freakshow with you. "Playing devil's..." [
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10 days ago
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"Oh, and it's absolutely the drawings that make it funny. Not only is there a map of the fight path, but there are skeletal renderings of each paleoanthropologist, with locations of various blows carefully labeled "A", "B", etc...." [
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Last month
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"As I scrolled down her page, I saw the hit counter and suddenly felt really bad. What if she gets email from Black Planet - "Hey, itsmefi, 200 people visited your profile today!" and thinks to herself that surely, with 200 hits, this time..." [
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Last month
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"-t, there haven't been a lot of Kansas City meetups, but the Lawrence KS crew is decently active and it's more fun than KC anyway. Lawrence is on your route, just about 2 hrs east of Salina, which hellojed has described with frightening accuracy...." [
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2 months ago
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Lullaby Mix
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2 months ago
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I need skillz
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3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, I can't really take much credit, though. There was a much much much later response posted in the adtunes forum thread that looks like it was started by p&c. Of course, that's really librarianly of me, isn't it, to defer and say he really..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by spaceman_spiff, cashman, unknowncommand, BrotherCaine, h00py, cgc373
4 months ago
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"puke & cry, your song is "Madcap Tears" by Rogue's March. There's a sample in the iTunes store, or on emusic. Presto!" [
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4 months ago
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"You sort of suggest in your framing that the only problem is the three summer holidays. If that's really the case, then try this - one family picks a holiday. The other family gets the two remaining holidays. You can decide which family does which..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lampoil
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"See, alby, not only did you not fail, but you also happened to create a delightfully geeky and self-aware metatalk discussion about Highlander entirely by accident. Complete success, I'd say...." [
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5 months ago
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"I have a friend with a minor oatmeal obsession. I chatted her a link to this thread so she could try all this stuff, and she says "Tell them to put canned pumpkin in it" to which I said "what???" and she said "i use anywhere..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misanthropicsarah
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"OK, I'm going to agree with BeerFilter - this is self-linky smelling. Ebray has made 3 completely pro forma comments today, then this post. I flagged, and was going to move on, but decided to poke around instead.
According to his profile, Ebray..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Metafilter: I have a compulsive need to construct these taglines.
There, grouse, if that didn't cure you, you're beyond helping." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
6 months ago
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"I found it annoying enough to flag. It wasn't so much the "cute" as the egregious all caps "BONUS" that bothered me. It was a stamp of boyzone - the poster, standing, hand up, waiting for the high-fives from his bros. Maybe it..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by lunit, ArmyOfKittens, Melinika, agregoli
10 months ago
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"Of course, if you do have a meetup at your house, four panels may show up and call you creepy." [
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10 months ago
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"What about building a herb spiral? It would be an interesting experiment in creating microclimates in your back yard, and it sounds like you may already have many good plant candidates growing...." [
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11 months ago
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"At the funerals I've been to, the best part of the lunch after is the children. After a long-ish morning in church and/or at a cemetary, in dressy clothes, with all the adults acting odd, and maybe having to look at the body, kids tend to respond to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Mine are librarian-ly, blog-laden, and reveal my obsession with someday building a strawbale house." [
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Last year
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"You're getting a lot of variety in the answers because the specifics of how weddings are handled are set by the bishop of the diocese you're in. (In other words, there's no single correct answer for the U.S., or any country, really.) Some bishops..." [
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Last year
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"My department (in an academic library) does technology support and development. We became intrigued by the 20% concept, but couldn't decide how to do with without running afoul of meetings and whathaveyou. So, we picked a week, blocked off our..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by philosophistry
Last year
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"I live in Kansas; my best friend grew up in Greensburg, and her parents still live there. I can pick out her childhood home on the aerial photos, at least, what's left of it. People got away with their lives, because "only 20 minutes" is..." [
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Last year
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"I saw Vonnegut once, when I lived in Chicago. He was on a signing tour for Palm Sunday. I waited in line for hours at a Kroch & Brentano's to have him sign my first edition of Breakfast of Champions. The woman in front of me in line had a baby..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by borkencode, graventy, litlnemo, mullingitover, gnomeloaf, po, Lentrohamsanin, smich, Atom Eyes, milov, aforambivalent, Nabubrush
Last year
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"I am an academic librarian. I'm not going to begin to wade into the morass of your behavior in this situation, but I can try to explain the interlibrary loan policy that you found "fucking stupid".
Interlibrary loan depends on a tenuous..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by smich, blind.wombat, Scram, Bookhouse, flibbertigibbet, I_Love_Bananas, blueberry, DevilsAdvocate, bibliowench
Last year
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"I'm a librarian at an academic library. Our licenses to electronic databases are pretty standard issue, and they all prohibit "systematic" downloading of entire issues of journals. Many have some sort of monitor in place by which they..." [
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Last year
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Lullaby Mix
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Last year
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"Cyrusdogstar, you're talking about the Internet Health Report, I think." [
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Two years ago
