Oct. 6th, 2023

silveradept: A librarian wearing a futuristic-looking visor with text squiggles on them. (Librarian Techno-Visor)
We can begin with an exercise about whether a person is primarily a person who works things out by talking, or one who works things out primarily by reading and writing, but also the ways that many organizational structures prioritize and promote the people who are talkers and leave the people who are writers confused and trying to figure out what has happened or what will happen. A rather useful thing to take away from it, regardless of whether talker or writer, is the idea that "power obscures" and therefore the people who are at the top of the organizational structure often do not often come in contact with people who are of different methodologies or mindsets and experiences as themselves. Which can be a real problem when you're trying to communicate something to the entire organization, including the people who you are expecting to carry out your directives properly and appropriately.

Pay attention to the racism that you write, so that it is always clear that the problem are the racists, rather than anything else. (And then, as is the nature of commentary on many social media sites, the comments aren't necessarily helpful or adding to the discussion.)

Sir Michael Gambon can take on no more roles, at 82 years of age. While he may be best known in a certain generation as the substitute Dumbledore when the original actor died, his career was wide and varied and he's shown up in all kinds of places throughout, on stage and on screen.

David McCallum, known for roles in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., NCIS, and Sapphire and Steel, passed on at 90 years of age. I only encountered him as Dr. Mallard on NCIS, where he was a great foil to Pauly Perrette's Abby. Apparently, he also released a music album. One of the tracks, "The Edge," was sampled to become backing track for Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode," which I was much more familiar with. Connections everywhere, apparently.

The usual assortment of interesting things inside )

Last for tonight, The guidelines for using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, which is most definitely connected to L-Space, as all such libraries are, but which also contains several volumes and spaces where being familiar with literary tropes and specific stories will strongly increase your odds of being able to navigate the collections and return in the same state that you began.

And a story of a god who needs someone to look at a mantra and find the appropriate loophole so as to fulfill the command, but without doing the things that neither god nor human want to do.

But especially An Index of Aesthetics. For when you would like a lot of visual examples of a particular style during the period when it was prevalent, possibly even popular.

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