Cartoon Thing 5

I spent way too much time trying to be funny. I'm not, but there are some possibilities here.

The photo in the cartoon below reminds me of one of my favorite old movies, Desk Set with Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn.





I am realizing that I don't know much about formatting my blog and organizing various elements.

More to learn!

Twins Puzzle

Small Frustrations

I have been too busy to blog lately, and I am trying to catch up with 23 things assignments. First issue--what were all those logins and passwords I was sure I would not forget? Like a lot of people, I had written them down somewhere and then misplaced my list, or it wasn't where I was anyway. So finally, I did have to get an email from blogspot to get me back on track. I tried some of the Flickr fun stuff. The spelling was a lot of fun, but I never got the knack of selecting and saving an entire word. I could save only one letter, and although I left the screen open, the letters continued to scramble and undo all my hard work. Maybe you aren't supposed to be able to do this. The speech balloons look like fun. I'm sure I'll use that at some point. Here's a puzzle thing that looks cute and would be a good gift for puzzle lovers.
Anyway, there are two things I have learned today. People who are really good at this stuff have integrated it into their lives. Almost any task, errand, or interpersonal communication begins online for them. They are fast. And they don't spend a lot of time trying to remember passwords.
Second thing I have learned is that I could easily be sucked into the vortex of creating mosaics or playing Flickr Sudoku--I love Sudoku--and never come up for air.

Mimi's Garden

Have a look at my beautiful granddaughters at www.flickr.com/photos/mimis_garden. This is my first experience with a Flickr account. It was fairly simple to get started. The points that I always agonize over are the privacy issues. How much background information should I provide, if any? I even called my daughter to ask her, and her advice was not much for a Flickr account. I told her I was putting her daughters' picture up and she said they're all over the internet anyway. (She blogs.) And they're only 3 months old. Imagine when they can enter information themselves! I started to say "type" and realized that I have no idea HOW an infant today will be using the technology of the future to share and communicate with the rest of the world in 10, 20, 30 years. There are language issues when we are discussing the future. How do we use words that haven't been created yet?

People Power

In the evolution of how people use and interact with technology, I am amazed to see that people are getting back some of what technology had taken away. We share ideas and pictures of our grandchildren, and organize information in a useful way (to us, maybe not to anyone else). We had left our front porches and our town hall meetings and moved inside, to sit in the air conditioning and watch canned television and play video games alone. Now we are connecting again in different ways. I loved "We are the machine." What a contrast to those old movies that depicted a massive metallic-monster computer with blinking lights taking over the world and telling people what to do. The reality is that we are telling "it" what to do, and the result is as creative, fun, silly, stupid, terrifying and wonderful as humankind can be.
In our library system, we are getting on this roller coaster with blogging and twitter and other tools for communicating with our patrons and reaching them where they are. There will be twists and turns and ups and downs, but this will surely be an exhilarating ride.

Thing 1 is Done

Greetings, fellow 23-things library folks. I'm looking forward to this summer's experience and a lifetime of meaningful electronic dialogue with family, friends, colleagues and library patrons. I know I will enjoy sharing experiences with you about your life and work. (Are those the same for you?)