Nose Sucking Butt Grabber

I'm not trying to insult you, dear reader, but I can't stop laughing at what I created with the Insult Generator. Some of the insults were so naughty I couldn't possibly post them here. You'll have to ask me in the lunchroom for those.

I had a lot of fun with the image generator (as Kym predicted) and with Pandora. Rollyo was good to know about but I haven't figured out the best application for it yet. Webjunction I can see would be useful at times, but it also seemed like it was just one more place to go in the neverending quest for information and "connectedness." I checked out "Top 20 Ways of Serving Older Adults" and really didn't find anything new or groundbreaking, but it would be a good place to start if you worked in a small library that was just exploring how to serve seniors better.

Tagged and Bagged

I love tagging. This exercise was not my first experience with tagging. The first time I discovered it was when I was creating a wish list on Amazon.com for Christmas. Tagging helped me find toys my kids might like based on toys I was searching. Plus, I loved being able to click on "cool" and see what somebody else thinks is a cool toy for a 2 1/2 year old boy.

I asked Kym if "I got lost in a tag cloud" is now a suitable excuse for being late to work...and she said yes! Must file that one away...

I went back to Amazon for this exercise and found the book I'm currently reading, The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman. I'm a fan of magical realism and wanted to tag this item as part of that genre and see what other books have been tagged by others as such. It really did work out as I expected: I saw books by my other favorite magical realism writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Sarah Addison Allen, and Laura Esquivel.

I've been tagged and bagged, people!

A Passion for Mashin'

I just finished the Mashups exercise and had so much fun! This really is a tool the world has been waiting for. I can think of several services that could be out of business...like AAA. The first search I did was for U.S. playgrounds. I only found a map of playgrounds in Germany. Close...but no cigar. Then I tried U.S. zoos and had poor results also, which was very surprising! I finally left the kid sector and had success with Niagara-on-the-Lake (Ontario, Canada), one of my favorite weekend getaway spots, and was able to find a map of all the B&Bs there--and then I started remembering all the great wine Aaron and I have had in NOTL, and lo and behold! I found a mashup of all Ontario wineries! Sweet heaven. I can taste that Vidal Blanc right now...sitting on the patio of Z's restaurant, watching the people going into the Shaw Festival Theater on a wonderfully warm October Saturday...

Can't you just feel the love?

Flickr Fun

I made it (most of the way) through the Flickr exercise and found the most fun was adding fake captions to the stock photos I uploaded. Who knew that I climbed Mt. Everest....hmmmm? Did you, dear reader? The family photo isn't fake, that's for sure. But it is really, really small and I couldn't figure out how to make it bigger. I guess that's a lesson for next time.

I'm a regular user of Snapfish so it was good to expand my comfort zone. Next time I'm going to try tagging some of my fake stock pictures with phony captions and see where that leads!

Getting Started

Can a 36-year old librarian and mother of 2 really learn new tricks? We'll see...