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So, sitting in a corner, tucked between two big rows of books, plucking on my laptop, I looked up and realized I was in the Classical Litt section. Somehow, it seemed apropriate. I was the only one there.
I was reading a mystery the other day and couldn't remember a character's name. Tried to "right click" so I could paste and search for it.... so frustrating.
Whenever I do this (which is often), I remember a very old Twilight Zone episode where all the people had no appendages except one very large finger. That show was made was so long ago, most people probably didn't even know what a computer was.
Almost as disturbing as minesweeper or tetris dreams :)
Would be a cool feature if I had a console on screen that linked to my phone so I could click and call from a list of contacs.
God I am lazy!
God I am lazy!
Well, don't worry. I expect soon they'll find a way to implant people's phones directly into their brains, so you'll just have to think about who you would like to call.
:)
Sid
1. To read one of the many things not available on the Internet (yet).
2. To access a proprietary database without having to pay the subscription fee.
3. To check out a book!
... Just to name a few reasons.
To read one of the many things not available on the Internet (yet).
I have a friend who works for a University library. She spends her days on the internet, contacting other Universites, trying to track down obscure books and research papers for Professors doing work on obscure books and research papers of their own.
Which leads me to an interesting image. In the beginning, the internet was an "Academics only" elite zone. In time, are printed books going to become an "Academics Only" elite zone, with an obscure network of P2P hard-copy sharers, its own version of l33t speak, etc etc....
I've got 5 computers, but no TV - and hundreds of books!
I haven't been to a library since I think 6 or 7 months..why waste your time there when you have a twice or even thrice as big as a library on the Internet sitting right in front of you?
Less than 1% of the good books I've read in my life are available for free on the Internet. 98% of them are at my local library.
Less than 1%...on the internet. 98% of them are at my local library.
Bingo! Another reason I still love spending hours browsing through a bookstore. I was thrilled beyond words to find that Fairbanks actually had a funky independent bookstore with a coffeeshop in it...
It's no Powells books, of course, but it'll do. ;)
I expect soon they'll find a way to implant people's phones directly into their brains
My favorite books I only can find via friends.
I have the strange habit of when I'm watching TV, lunging my hand towards my remote control to keep the screensaver from going on. Only my DVD player has a screensaver, and it's screensaver just goes on without the movie playing.
The library is a joke. The local excuse for a newspaper classes religious <activities> as front page quality news (even though two years now it's owned by Gannett/USA Today).
We have ONE bookstore that is NOT religion-specific in the 20 million acres known as "the southern part of the state". The local high schools and college have RELIGIOUS CLASSES as part of the (public paid, mind you!) curriculum. The ONLY major fiction classification in ANY of the libraries (excluding the county school system, wherein censorship is MORE than alive and well....) is what I used to write: trash romance....
The internet is all there is. Deal with it.
I do, and by and large I don't mind. But every once in a while, I go nuts wishing for 24 hours in the library where I used to live. (Las Vegas. Really.)
[edited by: lawman at 10:44 am (utc) on May 27, 2004]
