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Typeanlyzer apparently "reads" your blog and tells you your "type". I'm "The Mechanics":
The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generelly prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts.
The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters.
Hmmmm....bookselling=driving race cars?!?! Seems silly. I'm going back to my game of blindfolded lawn darts. [Thanks to
Wonkette].
Oh, wait, it occurs to me that one could drop *others'" blogs in. Let's see:
Brian Cassidy - "The Doers":
The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.
Joyce Godsey, grand dame of
Bibliophile Bullpen - another "Doer" [see above]
JBD of Philobilos fame - The Duty Fulfillers:
The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever.
The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work int heir own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.
Forrest Proper over at
FoggyGates - The Preformers [Also falling here is Chris Lowenstein aka
Book Prowler]
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
OK...that is all the time I have for this frivolity. The real question is, what type are *you*? Well, that and, "does it actually mean anything and do we care..."...
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Just when you thought the Dewey Decimal system couldn't get any cooler, spacefem.com provides a means to catalogue yourself. Let the fun begin...
Ian J. Kahn's Dewey Decimal Section:
020 Library & information sciences
Ian J. Kahn's birthday: 5/3/1967 = 53+1967 = 2020
Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works
Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.
What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.
Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com Just in case
Isabella Rossellini is an interesting woman. The daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, she is an actress/writer/director herself, an author (Some of Me; Looking at Me, and In the name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini) and generally, just a bright, beautiful and wonderfully strange human.
She is also, most recently, a porno star...not just any porn, bug/invertebrate porn. She has done a series of short films for/with the Sundance Film Festival called Green Porno. It is a collection of 8 short videos in which she dresses as and acts out the sex life of an: Earthworm; Dragonfly; Bee; Firefly; Snail; Spider; Fly, and Praying Mantis. It is quite amazing. Enjoy.
1 minute...another 200 or so... (pause) OPEN...all employees making
rounds of line...shaking hands...cheering. Quite a show...many happy
geeks.
The line doubled while typing the last and the end now nearly reached
the front having snaked down to the end of the aisle. In the time of
writing that sentence, the line went well past and is growing rapidly
as opening time approaches. Way too many way too happy people. It is a
very funny scene.
Many years ago my parents bought my first Apple (a II+) from Harper
Electronics, one of the first Apple dealers in the US. Several
subsequent machines came from Harper in later years...but about a
decade later he was gone, leaving only a couple of small resellers to
fill the void. Finally, Apple has returned.
No longer will I have to drive to Boston to sate an desperate
itch...woohoo! First 1000 receive a free t-shirt, we are within the
first 200 and I am embarassing pleased. Mind you, given Maine's
commitment to Apple (every seventh grade student gets one), this store
should have opened years ago...but better late than never.
Now, if we could just get a Trader Joes this state would be quite
civilized. N.B. This is the longest thing I've typed on my iPhone and
it was remarkably painless.
Well, it is 3:01am. I still seem to exist. That bodes well for the world of physics. It is always nice to know that reality, as we know it, continues to exist.
I have just been exploring the arguably the first "innovative" book form I've seen...at least from a tech standpoint. Prior to the publication of "Shadows Never Sleep", books on devices (pdas, kindle, iphone, etc) were simply text on a page. Basically, it was simply a story text put into one digital form or another.
Shadows Never Sleep is different. "Reading" the story involves using the "zoom" function of the iPhone and moving moving the page beneath the screen. It is an interesting way to move through a tale and certainly engages you in the process. I hope others take the concept further. Yet another good reason to have an iPhone.
If you missed the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics, track down a video and watch it...it was arguably one of the best produced and executed "live events" I've ever seen.
For we bookish folks, there was a stunning section with 2008 "wood block" cubes, tipping a hat to China's invention of movable type. What these blocks did must be seen to be believed. Suffice it to say that I assumed through most of it that it was a pneumatically driven computer program...only to find at the end that each block had a human in it...standing and dropping according to the choreography.
I saw an interview today with Zhang Yimou (Chinese director and producer of 2008 Opening Ceremony) in which he said, of the Movable Type section that those men (and women?) spent the last FOUR MONTHS practicing what we saw last night at least EIGHT HOURS a day (significantly more in the last weeks). He stated that never once were they able to do it flawlessly...until last night. I will post a video of this section as soon as I can find one. Amazing.
Warcarting is unlikely to be popular anywhere but MIT (or, perhaps, CalTech). It is nice to see that hardware hacking is alive and well... Do not miss the pictures/captions toward the bottom.
Absolutely...when it digs into old auction records on the fly. My old cell finally died the ignominious death it has been crawling toward and has been replaced with this lovely bit of plastic, metal and glass. As I promised KKL, one of the first things I did was log onto American Book Prices Current and set it as one of my favorites. Altogether too much fun.
I am shipping an unusual little tome to an unnamed government entity. I was asked, at the last minute, not to ship it to the agency itself, but rather to the home of the individual who ordered it. Why, I hear you ask?...because, "all mail entering is irradiated and this has damaged some previous early volumes."
Admittedly, this is not really bookish...but it is amazing *and* I promise that at least on book *will be* published about it, so it is "proto-bookish":
MIT Review has a short, yet amazing, article on China's plans for weather modification to see that no rain falls on their 91,000 seat open air stadium. Last year China purchased an IBM p575 supercomputer. This wee bit of hardware is capable of executing 9.8 trillion floating point operations per second. They are using it to model an area of 44,000 square kilometers (17,000 sq. miles) and it is apparently accurate enough to generate hourly forecasts for *each kilometer*. They then use silver iodide, dry ice and a liquid nitrogen based coolant shot/dropped from field artillery and planes. From the article:
Unsurprisingly, therefore, China's national weather-engineering program is also the world's largest, with approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30 aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers--mostly peasant farmers--who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.
Personally, I find the very idea of "controlling" weather intellectually pleasing...admittedly, it will likely lead to some catastrophic disaster...but, after all, a civilization can only last so long. Really, mixing supercomputers, interesting chemicals, anti-aircraft artillery and rocket launchers...I challenge you name something more fun than that.
On the bookish front, it is worth noting that the origin of weather control began in 1946 in the labs of General Electric discovered that silver iodide could create crystals around which cloud moisture would condense and form rain...on of the lead scientists in this work was Bernard Vonnegut, the brother of the late Kurt Vonnegut). Work hard enough, and there is always a book angle...
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shows to go, that some folks have way too much time on their hands....and as the mother of 6 blogs, 5 of them come up as doer one came up as performer..who knew?
Just a small point of clarification. The Book Prowler is my friend Jeanne Jarzombek. My blog (and business) is Book Hunter's Holiday. :-)