birthday present

Last summer I was about to embark on a cruise. I told my daughter that I was going to get into exercising on the ship. For my birthday, we met in Madison to exchange my cat that she was going to babysit and also for her to give me my birthday present. She had gotten my a mac ipod in blue with charger in a cool little case that contained it all. She said I ought to come into the 20th century with my exercise headgear for my cruise.

Having been assured that I loved it and that I would want it, she brought out her laptop on which she had ready a hand-selected grouping of 120 songs that were some of her favorites as well as some that she knew I would like. We downloaded them onto my ipod.

On the vacation, not only did I exercise each day but with my certain exercises I would use the ipod and enjoy each song that she had selected wondering just why she had chosen it but glad she had and had thought to bring me up to date.

one student thing

In checking with students recently, one wanted to show me the movie he was in the midst of making and it was in a site we had trouble accessing due to not having updated means of opening his site as well as fighting with the District's filtering system.

I think most students would feel that the best way to communicate what you want a student to discover would be to put it on MySpace or FaceBook; I think the older generation should get on the bandwagon and call theirs the FaceLift. The other option for finding fun information for the students seems to be YouTube and I like it also.

MnLink

MnLink is a much more widespread manifestation of a service that I worked on starting: the building block known as CLIC. I was in charge of hiring the manual filers in the basement of Hill LIbrary and hiring the driver. We had a large Diebold Power File and statistically figured that the two shelves with the most cards would be B and S, interestingly enough. We manually interfiled the cards from the 7 private colleges and the UofMn and Hill so that there could be a more technologically sound way of getting a book from another of the cooperating libraries. At the beginning, there was some discussion as to whether we should deal with photocopies of articles...it later became one of our bigger businesses right away. We had events that I was in charge of to coalesce the different participants like two CLIC art exhibits. I am at this time looking up to see the black and white photo that I bought at the exhibit which is a desk of a table in the Hamline library with the sun shining in and bouncing off a manual pencil sharpener that I have above my upper part of my computer desk in my home. I looked up Killing Field by Christopher Hudson which a teacher has requested and I am having a difficult time locating copies that he wants to use for his class; there were two in mnlink.