My friends you should read

If you look it up it is getting mixed reviews, mostly 5 stars but it is being compared to Sex and the City unfavorably. Liz Tucillo used to write for Sex and the City so people should expect some similarities.
She went around the world talking to singles, getting the scoop, and then instead of writing a boring and depressing non-fiction book, she gives us a touching, funny novel.
I love it and I think you will too.

Stuck in NJ

I'm a little bummed out today. Work is crazy busy and I found out that there will be a big FREE!!! launch party for Acheron Sherrilyn Kenyon's new book. Problem is the party is in Nashville, TN and I'm stuck here. Not only that but the closest the book signing tour will be coming is NYC. Close but oh so far...doubt if I can go at 7pm on a Friday night in August. The traffic to get back home (jersey shore) would suck tremendously. Every time she comes to NJ I miss her. I also missed PIP when they were in Hoboken. Not having much luck this year, hopefully that will change soon. I do have Coldplay to look forward to in Oct.

My new favorite song

For some reason this song cracks me up. I love it. Last night I saw it on the commercial for the new season of House and I was so excited. It fits House beautifully. Perfect. I had to sign up for a Youtube account so I could post it. I didn't pick the video and I couldn't find the commercial I chose bathroom toothbrush version. Enjoy!

The Host

I was so happy to get my hands on a copy of Stephanie Meyer's new book The Host. I just loved the Twilight books and am waiting impatiently for Breaking Dawn. The Host was just wonderful, I can't stop recommending it to everyone. It is appropriate for High School teens and just like the Twilght books it has so much appeal adults love it too. Check out Stephanie's page for an excerp.
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/thehost.html

RE Year of Acheron

Now What?

Just waiting for everyone else to finish the challenge, very impatient at this point. I could just make a new blog but that would be a pain. I am just going to be playing with all the new things I have been shown in this challenge. I might not post for a while. I'll see...

23 Things Finished

I haven't heard from OCL webthings about finishing the challenge so I went back through to check on my entries. I went back and labeled each challenge with it's number because I think that might have been the problem. Hope that was it. I know I have made a lot more posts than I needed to in order to do the challenge. I just can't help it. When everyone is finished with the challenge I will still post even if noone wants to read what I write.

Blog Surfing

Last Thursday after I finished my last Thing (yeah) I was blog surfing and hit on Digital Zen. It is someone doing the 23 Things challenge from a library in North Carolina. I tried to leave a comment about how cool that is that on my last day of the challenge I would hit on a fellow challengee. Unfortunately their comments are limited to only their team members. Too bad. Maybe I will find another someday.

Thing 23 The End

Hard to believe that the challenge is over. It has been just that-definitely a challenge. I have to say that I have enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I have found a lot of wonderful new ways to spend my time and a lot of wonderful ways to help customers.

My favorite Thing was and is this blog. I have found it to be so fun to make and maintain. I think I will keep it.
The Thing I dislike the most is the previous thing, Thing 22 ListenNj. For the reasons look at that post.
The aspects of Web 2.0 OCL should be involved with is, in my opinion, every aspect of it. All day long all we deal with is the computer...how can a library not be involved in learning on every level?

Computers are the future, barring a massive global EMP and no way to build components after one. Just by joining this challenge OCL is working toward a library that always has a place in that future. Web 3.0 will just be another challenge that OCL will face with its usual equanimity.

Thing 22 ListenNJ

I already have an account with ListenNJ. When the library first subscribed to it there was a request for everyone to try it out and so I did. We needed to know how to help people make an account. I personally don't like audio books. It drives me up the wall when the narrators use accents and goofy voices for different characters. Can't handle it. I'd much rather read a book or listen to the radio and CDs, not an audio book.
For the sake of this web challenge I have revisited my account and "borrowed" 2 books. I have downloaded them to the staff computer desktop and have found that the windows media players on our work computers need to be upgraded. None of the books will play on our computers, at any one we try it on. Not too good considering this is a challenge. Now we will have to put in a work order to have our computers updated.

edited:5/13-I forgot that it doesn't work unless you are home or on PCPlus. Worked fine on PCPlus.

Thing 21 Finding and Listening to Podcasts

Podcasts, very cool. I don't think I would ever make my own...you never know. I might end up inadvertently being in someone else's podcast. I am not likely to sign-up for a podcast feed, would have to find a subject I really wanted to see a lot. None of the search results I got on Podcast.com interested me. I also tryed Odeo.com, it is a little bit slicker looking but Podcast was easier for me to use. I like the audio and video podcasts not audio only ones. Okay I signed up to podcast.com, picked the foodtv podcast and am not figuring out how to view the podcast. Everything I click doesn't work. This will take some time. I'll have to come back later.

edited 5/10-I went back to odeo and signed up for an account. I got a odeo player and put a widget with Incubus' Dig. Ireally wanted Believe by the Bravery but they don't have it.

Thing 20 YouTube

Hooray for YouTube. I love it. I don't have an account but I am always using it, looking for concerts, tv clips, crazy kids stunts, whatever. Just last night I was watching Lost in Space the Golden Man episode on DVD with my brother and brother-in-law. We started discussing other cheesy old school sci-fi series we loved. My brother and I loved this cartoon called Star Blazers. We only saw one season of it and then we moved and couldn't find it on our new cable. Found it on YouTube right way, won't buy the DVDs 'cause it costs $150. We also loved Buck Rogers and what stood out the most was the crazy dances they always did, so cheestastic. Here is a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRpwJSMRlc&feature=related for a perfect analysis of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

http://www.hulu.com/about is a new website that has entire series or movies for viewing online for free. It is not the same as YouTube, I don't think you can put your own videos on it. It is just for any movie or TV show.
Here's the link for a Buck Rogers episode from Hulu. http://www.hulu.com/watch/13071/buck-rogers-space-rockers. Ha Ha...hysterical.

My Meez

I had time to play this week since I did my Things on Saturday. So thanks to Carla http://bitsandmusings.blogspot.com/ for having a cute meez on her site. I have made myself an avatar.
Don't know if i will use it for anything else but I like it on my blog. Now I will help Ellen and Cheryl, and anyone else who wants to, make one.

Ahhhh!!!

I am being dragged deeper and deeper. http://www.pandora.com/ is the coolest site I have ever been on, I am so hooked. This is wrong.
The challenge has broken me. I am going to have to buy a home computer or a laptop. You are solely responsible for dropping the circ at my branch. There will be no time to read!

Thing 19 Web 2.0

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0, interesting site and the awards are great. Kind of slow to open. I was just reading the award about yelp.com, the #1 for city guides and reviews, and someone came in to ask what there is to do in the area with his daughter. Ha ha. I added 3 sites immediately. How great is that?
The Content Aggregation and Management awards appear to be going to the sites that have the best tools, for programing and codeing etc., to help improve your website.