John's Musings

Christmas Parrot

John — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:03:21 +0000

Anoki dons his cap and scarf for the winter.

This weekend I’ll be in Port Washington playing pirate once again. This time, unless it’s snowing, I’ll have Anoki with me. What? A parrot out in the cold? Thats cruel, even for a puppet! Don’t worry. I went shopping for him tonight, and he’s now ready for winter.

Mentioned on Tame the Web

John — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:09:58 +0000

Hey gang, check it out, I’m infamous. Something I created this past week has been picked up by the :”Tame the Web” blog, which is a pretty well respected blog for the library world.

The twittered catalog

John — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:37:20 +0000

Tonight, I managed to twitter enable our library catalog. Now, if you find a book you want to recommend to your friends, just click the “tweet this!” link, and fill in your twitter username and password, and click “tweet”. As if by magic, the item is tweeted, complete with a link to it in our catalog. Yup, I’m a geek! Twitter folks, try it out at:

http://library.waubonsee.edu/catalog/

Auto Twitter

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:18:38 +0000

I signed up for a twitter account this morning. Looked over the API, and by 9:30 had integrated parts of it into the library website. Staff with twitter accounts now display their current “tweet” on the library website. Not one to be satisfied with that… I created a new program for use in our library system that now automatically “tweets” every time someone checks out a book from the new book display.

Follow the Todd Library at: http://twitter.com/wcctoddlibrary

Twitter

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:41:43 +0000

I’m now also on twitter… As usuall cap60552 is the id.

Its a small world afterall

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:07:19 +0000

A few years ago I attended a library conference in Nashville at the gaylord opreland. During the conference there was another conference dealing with industrial water equipment.
Tonight I was sitting at the bar talking with my new friend Gordon. A coiple came in fresh from their vacation in nashville. Gordon mentioned he had been there a few years ago for a conference. They asked about the conference, and he mentioned it was an industrial water equipment conference. My ears perked up, and I began to question him.
I should not have been shocked, it was the same conference. We both sat at the same pub, enjoying the same musicians. Really, what are the odds!?
My life, pretty good actually…

Happy Birthday!

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:25:19 +0000

Happy birthday to !!! Many happy returns!!!

Windows, not Microsoft related

John — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:54:17 +0000

Last night I was sitting in the living room and the cold wind was blowing outside. Once again, I could feel the chill coming off the windows in the living room. I tossed and turned all night after I went to bed. I wrestled with making a decision. The old windows in the living room are single pane, leaky, and in need of caulking yet again, a project I hate. The alternative though would be to spend a lot of money on replacement windows. Finally I convinced myself I was being irrational by “justifying” ignoring the ancient single pane windows and I feel asleep satisfied in the knowledge that I had decided to call someone for a quote. When I awoke I dreaded the idea of making the call, but got on the computer and did research. I finally decided on going to the showroom of an area window, siding, and door expert and explain the situation them, and let them explain what they could do for me. After spending a good 45 minutes showing me my options, discussing in detail what they would do to the house, etc, my mother and I decided to give them a shot. We really cannot afford to replace all 9 windows at the moment, so we are starting with the 5 worst ones.
Next Friday the measurement tech will be out to measure the five we chose to replace, and we will go from there. I hope I haven’t made a bad choice on this. I’ve looked up the company, and there’s mixed reviews on the net about them, however there seemed to be a lot more positive reviews than negative ones.

It brings the pleasure

cap60552 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:53:24 +0000

and brings the pleasure?

HA! Engrish seems to pop up everywhere anymore. The image below is from a catalog of a well known computer supplier.

Where were you?

John — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:53:29 +0000

It was spoken often that today will be a day that people will speak of for years to come. A day spoken of with phrases such as, “where were you on that historic day?” yes, it is historic that we have elected the 1st black president, and that’s the last I intend to ever mention that aspect of his presidency. It should not be mentioned or used at all. There is a long road to January 20th, and these next few months will lay the groundwork for what has been touted as a presidency for change. It is may hope that it will be that change that defines the look back on history

Where was I? I was at the pub with friends watching the election results on a big screen tv.

Where were you?