… the online home of a librarian in Perth, Western Australia
Before:
1. Hours to dry after washing.
2. Lots of knots.
3. Fear of getting caught in the escalator (or in the lift).
4. Sitting on it all the time (ouch!).
5. Inadvertent strangulation in bed at night.
After:
1. Dry in minutes.
2. No knots. No need to brush!
3. Nothing trailing behind me.
4. Cold ears.
5. “Did you sell your hair?”
“You look so young!”
“What does M think?”
Photos by M.
Hair style by Fringe Benefits Hair Salon, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.
Just posted this message on WAIN, our local West Australian libraries email list, and thought I might post it here too - consider yourself invited whether or not you’re in Australia! (Ivan, are you able to drop by?)
Library supporters are welcome too - you don’t have to be a library worker! We’d love to see you!
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Virtual end of year party for Australian Libraries in Second Life.
The Australian libraries blog, librariesinteract.info, is hosting an end-of year party in Second Life on 13th December, 6pm to 8pm Western Australian time. [This is 1am San Francisco time; San Francisco time also being Second Life time.]
Second Life is a virtual world, with a population of over 1 million, in which large companies, schools and universities (IBM, Dell, Harvard) have set up shop. Reuters newsagency has its own correspondent there. According to a September 2006 Popular Science article, Second Life, through currency trading, shopping and land sales, has a GDP of $64 Million. Recently, Australian Libraries were given a free building for a year on Cybrary City, courtesy of Talis and the Alliance Library System in return for 2 hours per week work on library services for SL residents.
The party will include a tour of Info Island and Info Island II by Lori Bell from Alliance Library Systems. We will follow the yellow brick road from the Oz library to the Kansas State Library Virtual Branch next door. Then, back to our building to hang out… dance on the dance floor, snare some cyber snacks, and go easy on the virtual alcoholic beverages.
You can join in virtually from your own PC, or come and look over our shoulders in real life. If you join in virtually, it would be a good idea to check out Second Life before the event:
1. Go to the Second Life website.
2. Check the systems requirements.
3. Go to the join up page and choose one of the family names offered..and make up your first name.
4. You will be asked for your credit card details, but do not have to give them.
5. Download the Second Life client to your PC.
6. Choose how you’d like your avatar (representation in SL) to look.
7. Enter…explore.
8. Teleport to just outside our building at: 207, 68, 23. (Often passersby can help you out to do this) Alternatively, we can teleport you to our building, if you send a message.
For further details, please contact Con Wiebrands (flexnib at gmail dot com) or Kathryn Greenhill (sirexkat at gmail dot com). If you are already exploring Second Life and would like to meet up, our SL names are Paradoxa Kurrajong (Con) and Emerald Dumont (Kathryn) - feel free to IM us!
Hope to see you on Info Island!
Kathryn and Con
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I also posted an invite a few days ago, on lint. I’m quite amused at how many comments it’s generated. Obviously people are interested in SL!
I’m really looking forward to catching up with Emerald Dumont, Hypatia Arcadia, snail Voskhod, Midjen Zauberflote and Curious Forager… (what quaint names we all have - says Paradoxa Kurrajong!)
I’m amazed that I’ve been able to find a meme for everyday this week so far. This one courtesy of Personal Political.
Which five comedies would you take with you to a desert island? In no particular order:
Anything by Harold Lloyd.
Bujang Lapok. A P Ramlee classic.
Seinfeld. All of it.
Little Britain. Ditto.
The Castle.
Hard to keep to just five. What about Kath and Kim? Fawlty Towers? Red Dwarf? Life of Brian? Green Wing?
It occurs to me that I don’t like romantic comedies all that much, actually.
