Long, tiring day.
Jul. 19th, 2006 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptStorytime, a craft supervision, and a four hour desk shift. No wonder I'm tired. But it was a great day all around. Storytime seemed to work well, as I told two of the three stories today, one with a very cute pigeon puppet. I couldn't see reactions, but the kids sat still, so no news is good news, I suppose. And the other storyteller tells me I have a knack for it and that I'm doing well, so maybe all this practice in making myself look silly is paying off.
Things that make one glad to be a journalist. Not that G.W. Bush actually makes a suggestion that might indicate a modicum of intelligence, or at least, thought, but that he uses an expletive to describe the situation. My question is: What took him so long to publicly be cussing out bad situations?
The government doesn't like having citizens be able to find out about itself, as it has awarded a $1 million check to researchers with the mandate of figuring out how to limit the Freedom of Information Act. Big brother is watching, indeed. Perhaps we'll be seeing Ubik's type of dystopia, if this article about recommendations that many more people be given psychiatric drugs for their newly acquired/diagnosed/retconned mental illnesses. Credibility is a little questionable, with the rant against allopathic medicine at the very end. Decide for yourself. On the technological front of BBIW, be careful how you upgrade your computer, or HD/Blu-Ray won't play at full resolution and size. When did copy protection become more important that user satisfaction?
Most people who study Japan and animation have heard of maid cafes (the staff, all female, dress as maids in short skirts), and perhaps, the butler cafes and the no-pants cafes, as well. Well, now there are nun cafes. Yep, one for every fetish, I'd say.
Lat link for tonight - Bert rocket races. Something in me just cries "Yes!" upon reading this.
Things that make one glad to be a journalist. Not that G.W. Bush actually makes a suggestion that might indicate a modicum of intelligence, or at least, thought, but that he uses an expletive to describe the situation. My question is: What took him so long to publicly be cussing out bad situations?
The government doesn't like having citizens be able to find out about itself, as it has awarded a $1 million check to researchers with the mandate of figuring out how to limit the Freedom of Information Act. Big brother is watching, indeed. Perhaps we'll be seeing Ubik's type of dystopia, if this article about recommendations that many more people be given psychiatric drugs for their newly acquired/diagnosed/retconned mental illnesses. Credibility is a little questionable, with the rant against allopathic medicine at the very end. Decide for yourself. On the technological front of BBIW, be careful how you upgrade your computer, or HD/Blu-Ray won't play at full resolution and size. When did copy protection become more important that user satisfaction?
Most people who study Japan and animation have heard of maid cafes (the staff, all female, dress as maids in short skirts), and perhaps, the butler cafes and the no-pants cafes, as well. Well, now there are nun cafes. Yep, one for every fetish, I'd say.
Lat link for tonight - Bert rocket races. Something in me just cries "Yes!" upon reading this.
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Date: 2006-07-19 05:13 pm (UTC)