Bring forth the neat stuff.

[silveradept]

This morning was fun, as we got some training on how to work the new colour copier that just arrived at the branch this morning. For me, it was pretty intuitive, having worked copiers like it before at university, but I got the feeling that my co-workers weren't used to quite so many buttons and touch-screen options. I think they'll do fine, though, and pick up on it pretty easily. I think one of my potential oddities, of becoming a sort of unpaid tech as well as a librarian is coming true. I've fixed a few things by myself already and navigated a couple others the first time I looked at them. Like I suspect, I might be the minor tech. Ah, well. Life and work continue apace.

One more thing to note - the holiday books for All Hallow's Eve were put out today. More than 45 days in advance of the actual event itself. *sigh* Even libraries start their seasons early, I guess. As I'm told, though, this is so that two circulation periods can occur before the holiday itself, which is fairly sane. I'm waiting for orange to suddenly appear on all of the stores near me, if they haven't already.

Onward to other matters of more interest. Like the chances of things killing you. Paying attention to the things that are 1 in 5 is better than the 1 in 140,000. Or you can look at di-positronium, a molecule that has a very short lifespan but emits sufficient gammy rays to be thought to be useful in a destructive laser. (Laser? What's the right term for a gamma-ray burst like that?)

Mcdonald''s employee arrested after officer eats oversalted burger. The officer says the meat made him ill. It sounds like he ate the burger completely, though, rather than complaining after a bite or two. So this is definitely bizzare-world stuff.

Something much cooler is classic video game screenshots recreated in Lego. Building blocks are amazing, indeed.

So, only a few days before I can do more complete posting.Which might be good, and might be tiring. Either way, back to the grind.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Does the library have it's own tech? Although, I find it's always easier to fix things on my own before calling the official office tech, anyway.

hehe Katamari Lego! Love it! (I'm still working on creating a katamari ball out of felt and yarn...plans are taking a while, but there WILL be one)

Uhh. I think that's abusing his power as a police officer, no? Sure, the restaurant probably should have thrown out the meat that got salted, but that's something that would get handled at the management/district/corporate level if you complained about it. Arresting the person who did it is just...abusing power. Should I call the police and get a restaurant arrested because they cook my veggie burger too close to meat and my veggie burger gets beef fat all over it?

I think the most disturbing death fact is the 1/119 suicide one. Wow. I never would have thought it was that "common".

[silveradept]

The library has official techs and such, none on site as far as I know, but they are in the system. It's mostly for small things like resetting things back to normal after people devise crafty ways of getting around restrictions and the like. Nothing serious.

Regarding the officer, it sounds like quite the abuse of authority. Hopefully the police officer is censured or otherwise marked for such a frivolous usage.

1/119 is too common by far, anywhere. That one should be very far out on the other end of the spectrum, but there are plenty of people wherever you go that end up feeling that death is the only release from their problems, whatever they may be.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I hope there is some type of follow-up detailing the actions taken against the officer. At the least, he ought to be suspended for what he did.

it's sad that there are so many people out there who feel that way - and even sadder that we can't reach them all to help them.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

somewhat related - Man makes a guillotine to commit suicide in Allen Park (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070912/UPDATE/709120468/1003/METRO)