Thing #23

Done, unfortunately a year late but still done. I bought myself a flash drive so that I wouldn't feel bad.

Thing #22

Finished reading Thing #22, don't know that I can promise I will visit my blog each day or even week but there are a couple of things that I have learned that I will enjoy. Library thing has been my favorite.

Thing #21

Just finished thing # 21, found a Rochester Public Library site on Ning and joined with a photo and a comment' Excellent.

Thing #20

Well I finally finished #20, bribed two people into being my friend, sent out requests to four more. I will go out in a few days and see if I have any more friends.

Thing #19

This involved pod casts. I worked with Andy on this. We talked in his cell phone and posted them to the blog.

Thing #18

This was interesting in that I saw Bambi vs. Godzilla for the first time since 1974.

Thing # 17

I am quite aware of the ELM data bases and see their value. I admit to being frustrated with the fact that the right up mentions that they are free and available to all Minnesota citizens. As far as I am aware this is not true, at least for five small libraries who have chosen not to be a part of a regional system. They seem to be held hostage for their being independant. Those Minnesota citizens are not allowed free and equal access do to "turf protection".

Thing #15

after listening to and watching the video and reading about "Second Life" I don't really see it fitting in to the mission of the library. Considering the heavy use of our computers at this time, and the currant economic climate this seems to be something to be done at home rather than a library undertaking.

Thing #16

As a former teacher, I found this very interesting. I wish it had been available or that I had known about it when I taught. I do believe that it would be very helpful to both teachers and students. My daughter is in a masters program at the U of M and I am going to send this info to her. Another useful "Thing".

Thing #14

This one is cool. I have spent an hour and a half and want more time. Awesome

Thing #13

This was interesting, we'll see if I ever get back to TaDa

Thing # 12

I find myself getting more frustrated the farther into 23 Things I go. I read through comments and it seems that people spend most of their time complaing about friends, hackers, safety of sites. If there is that much concern, why do them?

Ting #11

I have to admit that I enjoyed this thing. I like the idea of tagging bookmarks and being able to find sites that have been tagged by others in my areas of interest. Pretty cool.

Thing #11

The RPL has a wiki used internally, I went in and added my cell phone number without breaking, destroying or otherwise causing any damage.

Thing #9

I found this to be kind of weird as it seems that all this thing and a few of the others are, is different ways to do the same thing, such as creating a presentation, although I have to admit that gmail has a very effective way of filing, storing and archiving emails. I wish the library's groupwise was designed as well. I did gmail doc sharing and while I did it I wasn't that impressed.

Thing #8

This has been the most interesting so far. I made a Picture Trail slowslide show of a number of photos of an antique brass baby bed that I picked up at Gold Rush this past August in Rochester, Mn. It was in a pile of pieces laying on the ground. I new it would be missing some pieces but wasn't sure how many until I rigged it up on a work surface in my garage. It is missing one brass tube and three iron rails. The pictures are also the way I will have to put it back together after I completely dismantle the bed.

The major problem I will have is to locate the three rails. They don't reproduce the pieces and the cast iron ends can't be faked as they taper and slide into other pieces. So, I am now looking for and old iron baby crib that I can rob the rails from, I can cut the length down and weld the pieces back together but really need the ends. Anybody got an old rusty antique iron baby crib they want to get rid of???

Thing #7

It seems to me that Cell phone, email, IM and SMS are just different ways to do the same thing, communicate and that choice depends on age and how much you like gadgets. The phone company seems to get the best deal monetarily. The library uses email constantly and it definitely allows us to keep in touch and share information. Personally I would rather talk face to face. I think you pick up a lot of information by observing people when you interact with them. Phone is my second choice and i would guess that IM and SMS will be things I use very seldom. I sit in on a monthly web conference and get frustrated by the fact you really only see what the camera sees and hear what the mike picks up. I spend two hours and reallly only know who is at the table in camera range and depending on how good the mike is, loose a fair amount of the conversation. It cuts down on travel time but I feel I would be farther ahead being in the same room.

Thing #6

This is my trading card for Thing #6. This was fun but I think I need to get some more pictures

Thing #5

This was a little weird. I played around, tracked photos of tools by searching the tag TOOLS, then I created my name using Flickr free photos. It is at the bottom of the blog page.

Thing #4

I have a picture will post it from Flickr now