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Beware. She is a cruel mistress.

In related news, isn't Halloween awesome?

Ogrewhelmingly Good

Currently reading: The crude, but clever In the Company of Ogres by new fave A. Lee Martinez. Paul and I both loved Gil's All Fright Diner and this looks like it's measuring up to be a successful follow up. Though I must admit the lack of evil cheerleaders is a little saddening. :)

Never Dead Ned is a bookkeeper in the evil Legion and a good one (he hasn't been eaten by the Griffin yet), so he's logically dismayed when he's handed his papers. His promotion papers. He's been tasked by a demonic accountant with turning around the least performing unit in this monsters army. He's not afraid he's going to get killed by the orcs, ogres, and goblins running around. He's certain of it. The problem is, he knows no matter how horribly his life ends he'll come back. He always comes back. It's embarassing, and frankly Rarely Dead Ned doesn't really have the same ring to it.

If you like Terry Pratchett, especially the Discworld books featuring the Watch give this one a try. Never Dead Ned is no Vimes, but he's another hard working, martial man in a wacky fantasy universe. Listen up Tech Services, comedic supernatural police procedural is the new hot genre.

Bloglines

So as per my next exercise I sign up for bloglines. I haven't signed up for this many online services in this short a time period since... ever! I am sometimes a little skeptical of adopting every new online service. I like to keep abreast of what is out there, but I usually wait to sign up for things until there is a little more polish in place, unlike my friend Boz, who is a huge early adopter. He flicks, he tweets, he tumbls--he's the real things ladies and gentlemen.

In any case, regarding RSS and bloglines I created a public blogroll, which I need to show Sara, I know she's going to love Pop Goes the Library. It seems like there are some interesting things to learn out there and RSS should make it much more manageable to attempt to keep up with all this bleeding edge information.

I usually try to manage this by creating a heavily weeded collection of links in my favorites (If I haven't loved it in a month it goes!). I'm interested to see what del.icio.us is about, as this seems like it would be really up my alley. I think that's coming up in a future week.

Book Bit

So far Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales is good. Neil Gaiman's Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire, which is contained within, is great.

Flickr, Retrievr and Unshelved

I played with Flickr some as one of my 23things and played with some Flickr gadgets that I hadn't known existed. Retrievr, even though it doesn't work *that* well, is such a cool idea and is an application that I've wished existed so I'm cutting it significant slack.

Basically you can draw a picture of something and Retrievr will try to find you a Flickr picture that looks like it. It's not super effective yet, but keep working on it, guys!

In book news I haven't quite finished Luna yet with the move and all but this looks like it's next on my read list. It reminds me of the wonderful Gil's All Fright Diner, which Terry still hasn't read for some reason.

Also, big ups to Wellington Steve (who sounds like a relative of Remington Steele) for showing the GB crew how to add a friends list to our blogs. I haven't created mine yet, but I'm looking forward to adding everyone's, especially the cooler people that I see only rarely like Donna and Steve.

Unblocked

Well, look at that. I'm unblocked at last.

More book news later.

Librablog

Library blogs would be a fun way of letting patrons know what we are working on (as far as upcoming features, new releases, exciting programs) though we wouldn't want to devolve into splogging (spam blogging, where the blog is merely adversiting).

It's an exciting time for technology and the library.

Live and Learn

So this is my first post. Hi, Internet. Along with the 23 things I hope to post random notes of interest on whatever J or YA books I'm currently reading, such as favorite phrases, particularly good parts, and such.

As far as the 7 1/2 things go. I thought they were fine and would be okay ways of starting someone thinking about changing/improving their life, but I'm just not there. I don't need convincing. I already thought of myself as a "lifelong learner" in high school. I just knew I wanted to always be learning something new and discovering more about people and the world.

Currently reading: Luna, by Julie Ann Peters (The story of a "perfect" high school boy, who has dreamt all his life of being a girl. This is a bubbling stew of awkward and difficult moments. I'm glad I'm reading this and that I have it available to recommend for teens or parents that are interested in what it is like for transexual/transgendered people. I am also glad that I didn't have to go through this growing up.)