I thought "librarian" implied gender...

I guess some people still haven't heard of the word MANBRARIAN!

Penny Arcade comic

Happy New Year's Eve, everyone!

I love me some Charles Bronson

Movies that were (suprisingly) books first

My triumphant return to Madison

Sorry I've been incommunicado, I've been having to fight my sister for the use of our mother's extremely slow dial-up Internet connection (it's taken me nearly nine minutes just to get to the blog, log in, and start a new post). I also had to wait 'til my mom knew her schedule for tomorrow so I'd know if I could borrow her car.

All this leads me to wonder: HAVE I TRAVELED BACK IN TIME TO THE YEAR 1997?

And if I have, can we still be friends even though we won't meet at SLIS for another eight years or so? I promise not to make fun of you about the whole "MMMBop" thing.

If so, and if you are in Madison tomorrow (Thursday, 12/27), please meet me downtown, where we can enjoy delicious foods and refreshing beverages.

How about the Orpheum at 4 pm for their happy hour?

Monday Boredom Relief

Personally, I'm a big fan of The Team Captain.

I'll be back...just like the Terminator

I'll be back in town for the holidays on December 22, and staying until (early) the 28th. I hope some of you will still be around then...I misses my bitches!

Find your celebrity look-alike

My big timewaster of the day is this site, which will compare an uploaded photo to a database of celebrity pictures and tell you which stars you most resemble. Some of you have probably seen this on Facebook already, but you can use it through the MyHeritage website too.

As the program ignores hair color, race, and even sex, there can be some pretty weird matches. (Any of you think I look like Martin Lawrence?) Using a large, forward-facing head shot eliminates most but not all of the weird matches. The program also seems to get caught up on hairstyles -- it returned almost all men's photos as matches for me if I uploaded a picture where I had short or pulled-back hair.

My most common celebrity matches included Meryl Streep, Janeane Garafolo, Christina Ricci, Jodie Foster, Angelina Jolie (no, really), and, oddly enough, Frankie Munoz of Malcolm in the Middle fame.

Oh yeah, I also kept getting matched with a photo of young Shirley Temple, which just seemed wrong. And by "wrong" I don't mean "inaccurate" so much as "immoral". I'm having disturbing thoughts of some creep in a bar offering to buy me a Shirley Temple because I "look just like her". Then he'd probably follow me outside, hit me over the head, lock me in his basement, and force me to sing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" until Detectives Benson and Stabler burst in and rescue me.

But I digress.

A nice thing about this program is that their celebrity photo database includes non-US stars, as well as famous people who aren't popular entertainers -- there are politicians, authors, and news anchors too.

"Won't you blog about this song?"

This video had a high slot on The Onion AV Club's "Videocracy" site. It's undoubtedly the funniest Web 2.0 themed Billy Joel parody I've ever seen.

"Here Comes Another Bubble"

Covertastic!

So, I'm completely obsessed with cover songs (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are one of my favorite acts), and these amateur offerings are just too good not to share.

Enjoy--or at least try not to become violently ill :)

56 pictures about 56 geeks

What, no knitting geek? Sewing geek? Retro geek? Art geek? MARC geek (ok, so maybe that one's a little obscure, but isn't that the point?)

Something must be done to get all geeks their proper recognition....

They Also Love Librarians

While looking for inspiring holiday sweaters for an upcoming Christmas Sweater Party, I found a site that might just be a librarians dream website:

We Hate Sheep. We Love Holiday Sweaters.

Have fun but don't let it get out of hand.

Also, are any of you public librarians thinking about going to the PLA conference in Minneapolis? I really don't want to brave the holiday sweater-ed masses by myself....

I'll see you in hell, Pachabel

A friend of mine who's doing her Master's in music passed this along to me. It's a rant by Rob Paravonian, former cellist turned comedian/musician about why he hates Pachabel's Canon in D. And Pachabel's Canon must hate him too, because it follows him wherever he goes, trying to drive him mad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM