"Redditor Tokyomaneater69, U.S. Marine, found four baby bunnies in a hole next to a dead rabbit. He took them and decided to give them a second chance at life. He bottle fed them four times a day for two months. Their names are Steven, Raymond, Vaughn and James…(After Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughn, of course!)"
- Anne Bouey
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Our latest post was a recipe for slow cooker beef casserole that uses Coke as an ingredient - requested by a few of our page likers. People are FREAKING OUT about it. In a bad way.
A few years ago I had one of those recipes. I won't use it now because of HFCS.
- Bubba da Troll
People have forgotten the skill of "Oh, that isn't for me, I'll move along". Everything has to be a bleepin' fight. :(
- Bubba da Troll
Our Coke is made with cane sugar. But yeah, they've all got to weigh in. Someone even said "Asapartame casserole? No thanks!" LULZ
- Headless Gnad Kicker
"Please skip over this recipe if you do not like added sugar or caffeine to your recipes. However, unless you grow all your own food, PUT DOWN YOUR TWINKIE AND STFU."
- Bubba da Troll
I'm just waiting for the "Feeding this to your kids would be child abuse" comment.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Anyway, I'm planning on poisoning my family with it tomorrow night.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Someone just commented "I can't believe you are advocating the use of Coke."
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I'M GOING TO SMASH MY MEAT STICKS ON THE KEYBOARD AND IGNORE THE OTHER CRAP I PUMP MY KIDS WITH CAUSE I CAN BE MORALLY SUPERIOR BY YELLING AT A BRAND
- Johnny
from iPhone
Oh good grief... another post was 9 meals under $10. Eg lentil bolognaise, pumpkin soup, chow mein. Somebody posted "Not many of these look particularly healthy......" and then at the suggestion that extra vegetables/salad could be added if desired, said "It's not the healthy side I'm worried about... It's the un appealing meals and accompanying pics. I don't think these meals are very healthy. Adding a salad or veggies makes no difference"
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Sophie fantasized how she could be a bird. Yeah, I said, no ice-cream, no cartoons and one day you'll fly into a window and break your neck and die. Well, you gotta remain realistic, you know.
Miss Piggy. I hate her more than I hate some real, actual people.
- Jed Harris-Keith
People who refer to celebrities by their first name only.
- Soup in a TARDIS
People who stand at a pelican crossing and don't press the button!
- Halil
The guy in my office that always wears a fanny pack and always runs everywhere he's going. He's the only grown up I know of that consistently runs every single distance he has to cover on foot during a day.
- Eivind
Secretaries who refuse to do secretarial work.
- Jenica
Students who apparently think it's ok to block stairs or hallways. ("You're giving ME the stinkeye?")
- John Dupuis
When people go to google, and search for cnn.com (or whatever simple URL) to go to the site instead of putting in the URL in the address bar.
- OMG 404 Joe
People who correct me with the wrong information.
- Anne Graham
So, when I'm walking toward a door and someone else is coming toward it from the other side and they see me and STOP to wait for me to open the door first.
- ellbeecee
Laura, I especially love that when I'm pushing a cart full of stuff & students shove through the open doors before me.
- Anne Graham
When people walk into a store and stop. I know they are getting their bearings but could the step to one side to do it? Sheesh.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Along with Rachel's comment: People who chew with their mouths open.
- Friar Will
I have tried to think of something, but the things that bother me do so for very good reasons.
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
Me too, Harvey. Most recently, it's been people who stand in a sidewalk curb cut on a corner and when I'm coming with a stroller and they won't move aside for me to use the curb cut.
- Rochelle
On the bus - people who use speakerphone or talk loudly (phone or otherwise), people who are listening to music loudly enough that I can hear it *at all.*
- Rachel Walden
I suppose I could mention items from my list of things that bother me for good reason, but I'd hate to take over this thread. The ironic thing is, one of the items is, "people who take over your thread with their BS." Another one that applies is, "people who complain all the time."
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
Grown women who call themselves "mommy" (to other adults, like on Facebook profiles - "mommy of blah blah...").
- Rachel Walden
When someone walks into the path of the pram I am pushing then expects me to move out of their way.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Shannon, and when people step off the escalator and stop. Hello, I'm behind you, and I will get sucked into the escalator vortex if you don't move out of the way!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Walkers that don't have pre-installed tennis balls.
- Rodfather
people who walk slowly in the middle of the sidewalk, passage, corridor, whatever. people going about without watching around themselves.
- Guy
When I deliberately skip an aisle in the supermarket because it's too busy, push my trolley down the one after it, and it's just as busy. And when someone is at the part of the shelf that I want to look at RIGHT NOW.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
People with luggage on wheels with the extended handle who don't realize the luggage takes up space behind them and will stop at the top of the escalator, extend the handle, and THEN walk away with the luggage still at the to of the escalator 5 seconds behind them during rush hour at the train station.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
so much about other drivers! not using turn signals. guardians of the speed. people who drive in my blind spot. drivers who go below the speed limit. cars that stop at all rail crossings...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from YouFeed
People that tell other people they look tired. I don't care if my eye bags are the size of a scrotal sac....don't infer I look like hell. It is like telling someone they have stinky breath, pits, feet.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
- people that don't walk the last few steps up/off the escalator (along with not standing on the right/walking on the left) and people that stop right after they get off the escalator. - people that walk across the sidewalk when in a group - I CAN'T GO AROUND YOU. people that talk to you at any time / try to make small chat for whatever reason (they want money, or are crazy - is what I...
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- Jason
people that ask me if it hurts. (yes they are needles, tattoos hurt/piercings hurt) - I get that I look different and I chose to modify my body, but please shut up. *see people talking to me. *oh, also when they ask me how I blow my nose - A: with a tissue
- Jason
people who call me / address me in email by my last name... even people I have worked for/with for YEARS. I get that I have two first name, but it's obvious what my name is. pay attention.
- Jason
oh, in tv shows and movies where two characters talk/whisper to each other like the person next to them CAN'T HEAR them. This happens all the time. ugh.
- Jason
So my book is now available on Lulu, in paperback and epub. It will eventually be available in paperback on Amazon and through the Kindle store. I make more money if you buy it through Lulu.
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
Also: FriendFeed only special: if you buy a paperback, I'll send you the ebook for free, in your preferred format (EPUB, MOB, PDF). Drop a line to newrambler at the gmails to take part.
- laura x
The LC classification in the "medical" class is a bit odd, I think.
- DJF
I just finished it. It is a wonderful tale and well told.
- DJF
from Android
DJF: where would you put it? (NB: I am not a cataloger.) And more to the point, thank you. Immensely.
- laura x
from BuddyFeed
I don't know, since I I'm not a cataloger either, but it's not a medical book, or about the medical aspects. RG525 puts it beside What to expect... and similar titles. I would probably look to PR, American literature, assuming that that includes creative non fiction. When I'm at work on Monday, I can check the schedules ;-)
- DJF
from Android
(the only reason I know that R is medicine is that I worked in a medical library for a while and we DIDN'T have use R, because e used NLM classification for medicine.
- DJF
from Android
The Dewey number puts it in the same spot, and in my experience, memoirs tend to get shelved according to their subject matter (if they have one specific enough), unless the author is famous for being a Literary Figure. I have mixed feelings about all this, but they're too long to write on a phone.
- laura x
from BuddyFeed
Didion's Year of Magical Thinking is in PS, in my library. I am unimpressed with the idea that the classification of a book depends on the prominence of the author, rather than the subject matter.
- DJF
from Android
I would probably have put Laura's book in PS myself, without thinking about it hard (enough?). That said, from the perspective of a circ person without much cataloging background at all (though, outside libraries, I did spend almost a decade classifying books in a bookstore), the purpose of cataloging is access. So when you have a book like this, and you can only put it in one place,...
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- Marianne
My copy isn't here yet, but it doesn't seem crazy to me to put it in RG133-137.6 Conception. Artificial insemination. Contraception. Or we could go with the abominable HQ998-999 Illegitimacy. Unmarried mothers (need to look on my shelves for this one! yikes!!) There are some great essays and memoirs in the Rs. (Also, PS is a horrible section to browse. You'd think whoever devised it hated literature. Very user unfriendly.)
- barbara fister
The horrible name of HQ998 aside, that's a more reasonable section than RG525, since the book is, arguable, "about" mom more than it is the fact of the pregnancy.
- DJF
Also, I really need to reclaim Hope Olson from the library at work and finish reading it. The fact that LC puts female genital cutting in the middle of wedding planners as a "coming of age ritual" is really a problem.
- DJF
but back to Laura, this is why so many public libraries break the rules and have a separate biography section in nonfiction.
- DJF
I try to get students to read the shelves as a record of past attitudes. The HQs are amazing for it.
- barbara fister
I should say read the system - the shelves tell a different story.
- barbara fister
DJF, yes, Dewey does that, too, as was discovered by one of our volunteers when pulling books . To quote her exactly, "WHYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!????!!!!!!"
- laura x
from BuddyFeed
I'm suddenly terribly saddened that I did not put it in the HQs. But in truth, I chose the medical classification (and I started with DDC, since I am, after all, a public librarian) for exactly the reasons Marianne mentions. I actually love browsing in the Ps, which just goes to show you that there is no one system to rule them all, or at least to make all the readers happy.
- laura x
(I am watching this conversation carefully for tidbits to teach in org-of-info. :) )
- RepoRat
Ugh, the Ps! They take up the majority of two floors of stacks. This literature librarian would sometimes KILL to be able to send people to the 800s to browse fiction. And to have a biography section. That said, I like having memoirs in subject classes because of all the assignments to read about an athlete, a scientist, a Deaf person, etc. Moar browsing plz.
- kaijsa
See, I just love getting to a spot and finding everything that a person wrote AND everything about them all in the same place. So I love the Ps. They take up a whole side of one floor at the UI Main library, and it's always been my favorite section.
- laura x
well, that's the problem with public libraries: when does something stop being fiction and start being "literature"? It seems to boil down to "prose is fiction; poetry and plays are literature."
- DJF
from Android
The thing I find hardest is the cutters - everywhere else the author's name has some relationship. But not in the area where people are likely looking for particular authors.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
Well, we could put all the fiction into the 800s or pull all the poetry and plays out. I think the 800s are much, much worse for browsing that the Ps. But I may be in a minority here. :)
- laura x
As noted, I'm thinking of offering a stapler to the first library to catalog Night Sweats: http://ff.im/1fHUy6.
- laura x
Barbara, the second letter of the author's last name isn't enough of a "relationship" for you? ;)
- bevedog
Mine arrived on Saturday. Saving it for a treat after I slog through the five library-reserved books that all arrived at once. I'm enjoying looking at it, though.
- Mama Lawson
"Well, we all need a hobby," is, I think, my favorite line in the whole book.
- DJF
from Android
RT @buzzfeedsports: GIF:You better believe ABC's cameras caught Ray Allen reacting with disgust to Danny Green breaking his record http://twitpic.com/cxmjzw
Quiznos? Oh HELL no. Now, was it cooked over wood, and was the wood hickory? And was the sauce tomato- or mustard-based, or just vinegar? These things are important.
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
I do believe it was hickory. And vinegar based would be my guess. I didn't try the sauce. It didn't require it.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
So that's the third uncanny thing so far these last nine days. The first was when I got locked out of my house even though there's no way to lock the sliding door from the outside. The second was when I woke up in the middle of the night to the Galaxy S3 whistle tone. I don't own a Galaxy S3 and I live alone….
Keep the camera running! Its the next Blair Witch Project!
- Spidra Webster
So if I disappear all of the sudden, assume that the poltergeist got me.
- Victor Ganata
Er, is this when you start to check to see if someone is living in your attic or crawlspace?
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yeah, I should probably check the attic.
- Victor Ganata
You should totally check the attic, and the basement. But make sure to do it when totally alone. And preferably with a light that doesn't work reliably. And have a camera that often freezes.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
You should see a doctor; just use a mirror—oh, wait.
- Micah
the one-way glass scene in Poltergeist 3.
- Joe Silence
BTW, these incidents inspired yesterday afternoon's discussion question on the SAHM FB page "GHOST STORIES: We have all heard of tales of ghostly figures wondering through the halls, or things moving around all by themselves. That got us thinking, do you believe in ghosts or paranormal? If you do what were they?"
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I suggest smoking a joint and not worrying about it.
- Rodfather
from Android
Much cuter than the family of mice I saw on the subway tracks on the way in to work today. Although baby mice are still kinda cute I guess if you get past the ick factor.
- ronin
I bet Green wishes he could bottle this up and save it for Game 4. Unreal.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
...yeah, that's what I'm thinking too: Green and Neal on the Spurs had best games of their NBA careers tonight, in a Finals game—what are the chances they'll repeat the performances, ever again, much less in the next 2-3 games?
- .LAG liked that
I can pay for pizza myself with my debit card people. I prefer to pay for delivery with cash I just don't have any cash on me. :)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Ok. If you DM me your bank account info. I'll pull out money and mail it to you. :)
- SAM
Okay. Maybe the cicadas can finally go away for another 14/17 years. As I was bringing in some food from the car, one hitched a ride in my collar. Since it also had just started to rain, I was in a hurry and didn't immediately notice as I darted inside. One cicada doing its buzzing isn't too loud. However, it ain't less scary by your ear!