The Bronze Medal

"Chance, to me, had a kind of absolute logic to it. I revered it more than I did actual logic, the..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:06 -0400

“Chance, to me, had a kind of absolute logic to it. I revered it more than I did actual logic, the kind that was built from solid materials, from reason and from fact. Anything could be reasoned into being, or reasoned away, with words, desires, rationales. Chance shaped things in a way that words, desires, rationales could not. Chance came blowing in, like a gust of wind.”

- Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers.

darienlibrary replied to your post: Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie… I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:00 -0400

darienlibrary replied to your post: Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie…

I played Wanderlust for our patrons almost a year ago and I still get complaints. Movie they loved though : MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.

The best comment I’ve ever received about the senior movie was for Pirates of the Caribbean - one woman “didn’t expect so much of it to take place on boats.”

Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie in it’s auditorium for seniors. My...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:23:45 -0400

Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie in it’s auditorium for seniors. My coworker, who selects the film for each week, just sent out an email noting that not many “good movies” are scheduled to be released on DVD this July, and asked if anyone had recommendations. It would be a great idea if I suggested he show the senior citizens Spring Breakers, right?

"I feel changed. Like, say my mind is a sweater. And a loose thread gets tugged at, pulled and pulled..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:09:42 -0400

“I feel changed. Like, say my mind is a sweater. And a loose thread gets tugged at, pulled and pulled until the sweater unravels and there’s only a big fluffy pile of yarn. You can make something with it, that big pile of yarn, but it will never be a sweater again. That’s the state of things.”

- Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers.

Parents.

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:58:31 -0400

Parents.

Some A+ hockey from the Islanders tonight. I haven’t been this excited about a team since the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:45:45 -0400

Some A+ hockey from the Islanders tonight. I haven’t been this excited about a team since the 2006 Dillon Panthers.

Even though it’s playoff hockey time, I am in fact still...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:37:11 -0400

Even though it’s playoff hockey time, I am in fact still reading stuff. Mainly during commercial breaks.

patrickmoberg: I’m excited to share a little iOS game I made...

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:51:54 -0400

patrickmoberg:

I’m excited to share a little iOS game I made called Dots. Let me know what you think. <3

Grab it here: http://nerdyoctopus.com/dots

Guys, this is my new favorite game. Just spent my whole lunch break playing it instead of reading the book I was planning to start.

"Well, everything is always complicated, and I’m not here to turn you off critical thought. Follow..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:47:28 -0400

“

Well, everything is always complicated, and I’m not here to turn you off critical thought. Follow the money, if that’s your deal. Sometimes, though, it’s worth spending a little more time with the basic thing that just happened before you go squiggling off into the stratosphere. An NBA player just came out. If that’s not brave, why hasn’t it happened before now? To me, the most moving detail in Collins’s essay was that he wore no. 98 this season in honor of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was tortured and killed in 1998. This was a private symbolic act carried out in public. It suggests both that Collins has been thinking about what gay kids go through in America and that he spent this season getting his mind ready for this moment. In other words, whatever your angle vis-à-vis complex media metanarratives, Jason Collins is a person, and he just did something that was hard for him to do, and that thing will help other people. That’s what matters here. That’s what happened.

You don’t have to have a Nike campaign to be brave. Be proud of the guy. Be happy.

”

- Brian Phillips

losertakesall: Cat Barometer: I can tell how warm it is outside...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:00:49 -0400

losertakesall:

Cat Barometer: I can tell how warm it is outside by how long my cat is, and the humidity by his fluffiness.

Today: 70s, dry.

Someone please translate this idea into a Weather Cat app for my iPhone.

Grabbed some Blue Bottle between program sessions, because if...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:14:42 -0400

Grabbed some Blue Bottle between program sessions, because if I’m going to a library conference in San Francisco, I’m going to do it with good coffee.

The beer list has a table of contents = this is my kind of...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:37:52 -0400

The beer list has a table of contents = this is my kind of place.

My coworkers and I are looking for a place to get dinner tonight in San Francisco. Suggestions?

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:52:31 -0400

My coworkers and I are looking for a place to get dinner tonight in San Francisco. Suggestions?

Some guy managed to get on our flight to SF this morning by mistake, went right to sleep when he got...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:06:20 -0400

Some guy managed to get on our flight to SF this morning by mistake, went right to sleep when he got on the plane, and only realized he wasn’t on his way to Florida when he woke up and saw on the in-flight media station’s live map that our plane was currently over Wisconsin. He was a very very unsatisfied JetBlue customer, but dude, really, learn to read signs and listen to announcements.

Hi San Francisco.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:13:41 -0400

Hi San Francisco.

Hey guys, look who shops at my supermarket!

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:02:34 -0400

Hey guys, look who shops at my supermarket!

This 100% scared me when I went to leave something on my...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:45:26 -0400

This 100% scared me when I went to leave something on my coworker’s desk this morning…

Good way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:17:33 -0400

Good way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

It’s pretty cool that the Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:16:06 -0400

It’s pretty cool that the Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter reached 5 million today. But it’s all wasted if they don’t get Ken Marino back as Vinnie Van Lowe.

Along with yesterday’s library budget vote, child patrons were asked to submit possible names...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:29:12 -0400

Along with yesterday’s library budget vote, child patrons were asked to submit possible names for the library’s three pet frogs. The winners? Milly, Butterfly, and Frogalicious. I’m betting the kid who suggested naming a frog “butterfly” probably has a dog he named cat and a turtle he named hamster.