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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009 |
library_mofo
[ shevellaine ]
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12:44p |
An open letter to my patrons...
Every time you drum your fingers on the desk, tap your foot, tap your watch, roll your eyes, sigh and look put upon, and/or tell me that you're in a hurry, I move a little slower. No love, Me It's the day before Independence Day. Most of the banks are closed. Some of the businesses are closed. (It's a small town.) Sadly, we're still open. Everyone wants to check out a dozen or more movies right now, because we'll be closed tomorrow and they can't wait until Monday for their video fix. |
| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | |
hackingnetflix
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10:58p |
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jkason
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11:58p |
Ah, Good Times...
So, watching Troy on TV inevitably made me think of Handy, which lead to the YouTube: EDIT: And here's the original: |
library_mofo
[ mb_jazz_freak87 ]
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4:48p |
Dear Propaganda-Distributing Patron: Congratulations, you have a religion. Congratulations, you are proud of it. However. This does not, in any way, shape, or form, give you permission to leave dozens of teeny Christian propaganda comic pamphlets on our shelves. Your religious beliefs do not give you the right to distribute things like this in our library any more than do the beliefs of those who seem to think that leaving issues of American Atheist magazine in the religion section of non-fiction is appropriate. Please advertise for your church elsewhere. Sincerely, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mb_jazz_freak87 |
library_mofo
[ goddessdragon ]
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3:23p |
Quit ignoring me!
Dear Mofo Co-Workers, I think in the last ten months which I've been working with you, I have not shown you my mature Circ supervisor side. That's the only reason I came come up with in regards to not replying to my emails. See, I'm responsible for student employee training. Which includes orientation. I sent out a cheerful reminder that will automatically save the date on your Outlook calendar. See! I've made it easy for you! Just press "Accept!" But no, ignore the email and don't email with WHY this time doesn't work for you. I know that our supervisor just switched up our responsibilities. That's not my fault. I'm just trying to get this ball rolling. Yours sincerely, The youngest member on staff. |
library_mofo
[ nebroadwe ]
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2:35p |
To the Right Honorable -- no, wait, make that Her Royal Highness ...
Dear Ass-Kissing Literary Mofos of Earlier Eras -- Please to have a little foresight when selecting a patron. Avoid political figures whose power base is eroding, elderly persons tottering toward the grave, and wealthy idiots overexposed in the tulip market. You're only going to create more work for your printer (and subsequently for me) when you rededicate your heartbreaking work of staggering genius to someone else. Said printer can't be any more pleased about having to cancel one leaf of panegyric doggerel with another leaf of even worse doggerel than I am about having to document the change (particularly when he decides to slap it back in the wrong place. Mofo upon mofo!). Sincerely, nebroadwe Twenty-First Century Rare Book Cataloger |
library_mofo
[ maybecrazy42 ]
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7:14a |
Old Fashioned Racism
I have a co-worker who is a bit old fashioned and replaces "hell" with "H" in casual conversation. Ironically she's a bit racist and inappropriate but has no idea. For instance, once she cornered the asian graduate student and told her that she, my co-worker, loved orientals because when she was little an oriental woman came to talk to her brownie troop dressed as a geisha. She went on to re-enact the scene from A Christmas Story where the family goes to eat Chinese on Christmas and to sing, in the horribly offensive pseudo-accent "We Wish You a Melly Chlistmas" Anyway, today she announced loudly, to anyone who cared, that she hated one of the admin women and wished that this particular woman would "Marry that camel-jockey boyfriend of hers and get the H out!" After a short, uncomfortable silence someone said "Excuse me?" to which she repeated, louder, exactly what she had said (lucky me, I thought she had said "junky boyfriend" the first time). There then followed an uncomfortable silence and she said "Well, I don't usually talk that way about people, but I really hate her." So, I'm assuming she felt the tension and thought it was because she was expressing distaste for the admin employee, not that she used an incredibly offensive racial slur. I have to admit, I wasn't so much offended as I was fascinated. It was like watching someone eat a bug. |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 |
library_mofo
[ securityguru ]
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3:06p |
It was appreciated...
I bust a guy who was traveling across our state scamming any library system that gave him a library card of materials and then selling them to get “gas money” to individuals and second hand book stores. I get him for two felonies, seize his truck and he is in jail. The time comes and we bust him in his truck. I and the police recover our materials and materials from over twenty other library systems he had not sold yet. Not to mention hundreds of library barcodes and dust jackets. So I get the materials, separate them and sort them, and have the materials shipped back to their perspective libraries with a letter explaining what happened. I could have let the police take them and put them in their property room and those libraries would have to come get them but instead I figured I would be nice and ship them back. So I only want to say to the four library systems who thanked us, we appreciated it. To the rest of those who think that the theft of library materials is the cost of doing business I say what comes around goes around. |
mossymonkey
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1:16p |
Hey!
I know you're just waiting for my tomatoes to get ripe, aren't you, Mr. Bluejay? |
| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 |
library_mofo
[ autumnfire1414 ]
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8:50a |
One of those sinking feelings...
I found out this morning that someone from the Circ dept. at one of our campuses has apparently been making cold calls to verify patrons' information so they know whether or not to delete their record. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. It seems to me that a patron's right to privacy has been violated. After all, they would have no idea if the person calling to verify their address was actually a library employee. Why didn't the employee simply worry about verifying the patron information when the patron is actually standing there at the counter? My doctor's office doesn't call me asking for address correction information, they have me fill out a form when I am physically present in their office for my appointment. Is this employee a mofo or am I just being oversensitive? Current Mood:  morose |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 |
library_mofo
[ notthemonica ]
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8:56p |
Anybody else run into this?
Having been told soooooooooo many times to take her cell phone calls to the lobby, regular MoFo's new trick is to now be on VOIP through her laptop connected to our wifi. So, she thinks she's got a loophole. Well, I double-dog loophole.... The Security Guard let the Director know that I willl be speaking to her about this patron first thing tomorrow and my recommendation will be to upgrade our signage to "No speaking conversations using wireless devices" or some such. |
library_mofo
[ kippurbird ]
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1:54p |
No. I can't point you to where the book I cataloged three years ago is in the stacks. Even if it is about Israel. |
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hackingnetflix
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12:27a |
Netflix New Releases for June 30th, 2009 (Full List)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HackingNetflix/~3/mCLZM7wnIZA/netflix-new-releases-for-june-30th-2009.html http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/06/netflix-new-releases-for-june-30th-2009.html Click here for the full list of new releases this week (90).
Interesting titles include Two Lovers, Entourage: Season 5, The Education of Charlie Banks, Pedro, Princess Protection Program, Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, The Man with the Golden Arm, Three Priests, 12 Rounds, Hide,
The IT Crowd: Season 2, and Tokyo! |
| Saturday, June 27th, 2009 |
library_mofo
[ glhansen ]
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12:50p |
Preferred Patron
I was just thinking this morning that, in order to show good patrons that they're appreciated, maybe there can be some kind of Preferred Patron status. Suppose something like if there's no more than one ding (late return, damaged item, etc.) in the last ten transactions, or ten weeks or whatever, they can check out more DVDs, unlimited books, certain reference items, get the next five dollar's worth of fine waived, or other things of the sort. And the ones not on the list have limits. I'm sure there would be practical problems with implementing it, and theoretical problems with it. But it would be nice if the good people can get more than the jerks. |
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hackingnetflix
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8:08a |
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009 | |
hackingnetflix
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3:30p |
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pomo_village
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9:09p |
American Politics, a Lamentation
http://blog.postmodernvillage.com/archives/2009/06/27/422 http://blog.postmodernvillage.com/?p=422 In some ways, the American political system is working as intended: the elite, or at least an elite, is making the decisions, just as the proverbial Founding Fathers designed. Sadly, that elite does not comprise the actual representatives we elect—perhaps a blessing, since our electeds tend to be kind of stupid after all. There’s no irony here: candidates are selected by the two parties because they are weak: weak minded and weak-willed. They are therefore more moldable into the electable product. Witness George W. Bush, a blank canvas upon which Karl Rove could paint his masterpiece. Still, a certain level of competence is necessary, as the meltdown of Sarah Palin’s candidacy evinced. This is not to say that, had the press actually scrutinized W. the same way that the same thing couldn’t have happened to him, but they weren’t then in love with Obama, didn’t have the evil temptress of Palin to gird up their loins to resist.
But parties are cognizant of the need to kowtow to their masters, the much maligned “special interests,” by which we can read “wealthy businesses interests.” The Right may complain about the Sierra Club or the ACLU, but those entities take to the courts because they can’t afford to run candidates; only the really loaded can finance a campaign. The open-secrets of the senators from coal country or the representatives from Boeing wouldn’t seem so tired conceptually if they weren’t actually just that. In the biggest coup (all puns intended) yet, we have just passed an era in which the president and vice president were wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil and gas industries. This worn path, however, leads us to the gates of our true masters.
By doing so, we follow the money too, and even after the recent collapse, the top 5% still control almost half of all there is. And just as the feudal lords’ powers ebbed or flowed depending on their relationship with the Holy See, so too do the current elites see their wealth enhanced or degraded by political patronage. Boeing never missed a major government contract when the powerful triumvirate of Nancy Kassebaum, Bob Dole, and Dan Glickman represented Kansas, where Boeing has a major plant. But when these were replaced by the relatively weak and ineffectual Brownback/Roberts/Tiahrt delegation, Boeing lost a major bid, and to an overseas company to boot.
It doesn’t help that this delegation is at least 2/3 intellectually dim either; the downside of being able to control a politician is simply that he or she lacks personal power. In this, George W. Bush seems to have won the day for Big Oil but lost the war, as America’s global position was weakened vis-a-vis OPEC, its relationship with Russia shot, and its access to Iraqi oil fields remains doubtful. In the short term, the almost unimaginable boon of oil prices at $120 a barrel last year have come back to haunt a wrecked economy and Venezuela and Russia renationalizing their supply.
The American people, of course, hardly even enter the picture. Even during election years, they are so docile and suggestible, so apathetic, that it’s nearly certain they’ll fail to surprise. The election of Barack Obama reinforces this idea. He may be black, but he’s also unrelentingly centrist, even conservative, in times that call for bold and progressive action. No puns intended, in Obama the electorate did not back a dark horse, as that would have been a Kucinich or a Nader. The American people have failed to riot in the streets or even calmly protest even in the face of eight years of obvious incompetence, a quarter century of declining wages, and complete economic meltdown. George Orwell, it turns out, was wrong about this: the proles need not be poorly educated. In fact, despite increasing numbers of college degrees, we’re now less likely to agitate than we were when things were going relatively well. The system that we purportedly love, that we send our kids to die in order to supposedly protect, has broken down, been hijacked by the same people who have cynically outsourced our jobs and dismantled the industry we worked so hard to create, and in order to “show them” we elected a man who packs his group of economic advisors and regulators with them.
It’s as if, along with middle-class expectations and middle-class educations, we’ve also adopted bourgeois conservatism, even if it makes our actual lives less certain, less wealthy, less satisfying overall. The middle class that, in its ascendancy, demanded more freedom is now, in its senility, demanding less.
I suppose we get what we deserve, but it is hardly meaningful politically to exist so, with half of us living up to our expectations to vote one way and half the other and neither way promising actual change. What has happened in this country over the past 30 years is the largest voluntary handover of power in history, with literally a hundred million of us not even participating in any election and tens of millions more not demanding that their parties do better. We fail to question the party lines that, inevitably, fail to improve our lives.
There is something of the mindset of war about this, and much of that egged on by the Right wing media and the Republican Revolutionaries who took over congress in 1994 but whose first major victory was the Reagan-Bush regime from 1980-1992. We still fight on their battlefields; they have long held the high ground in the minds of most Americans and even the mainstream media so often touted as leftist. The latter are all solidly in the realms of the wealthy, after all, and are still more worried about their investments than the plight of the poor. The Right determines the language–”taxpayers” instead of “citizens,”–and projects the power relationships—the supposed control of the “intellectual elite” and the threat to freedom that is the ACLU. The lack of push-back and redefinition from the Democrats is an indication that they, too buy this language to some degree. This is also why universal single-payer health care, the only system that actually makes sense, is an impossibility in this country.
They manage to do this by false dilemmas: the system we have or socialism, the vagaries of the market or the “rationing” of health care, and that feeds into the scorched-earth politics of a two-party state wherein winning is the point, governing is secondary. And the only way to win such costly campaigns is to enlist the power, and thereby pledge fealty to, the rich.
The question history will have to ask, and the answer is not exactly clear, is why such a powerful and hopeful and active people gave up on their democracy, why we decided that solutions that actually work were too ideologically scary to try, why making our public servants actually serve the public was too much to bother with after all. |
mossymonkey
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3:56p |
American Politics, a Lamentation
In some ways, the American political system is working as intended: the elite, or at least an elite, is making the decisions, just as the proverbial Founding Fathers designed. Sadly, that elite does not comprise the actual representatives we elect—perhaps a blessing, since our electeds tend to be kind of stupid after all. There's no irony here: candidates are selected by the two parties because they are weak: weak minded and weak-willed. They are therefore more moldable into the electable product. Witness George W. Bush, a blank canvas upon which Karl Rove could paint his masterpiece. Still, a certain level of competence is necessary, as the meltdown of Sarah Palin's candidacy evinced. This is not to say that, had the press actually scrutinized W. the same way that the same thing couldn't have happened to him, but they weren't then in love with Obama, didn't have the evil temptress of Palin to gird up their loins to resist. But parties are cognizant of the need to kowtow to their masters, the much maligned “special interests,” by which we can read “wealthy businesses interests.” The Right may complain about the Sierra Club or the ACLU, but those entities take to the courts because they can't afford to run candidates; only the really loaded can finance a campaign. The open-secrets of the senators from coal country or the representatives from Boeing wouldn't seem so tired conceptually if they weren't actually just that. In the biggest coup (all puns intended) yet, we have just passed an era in which the president and vice president were wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil and gas industries. This worn path, however, leads us to the gates of our true masters. By doing so, we follow the money too, and even after the recent collapse, the top 5% still control almost half of all there is. And just as the feudal lords' powers ebbed or flowed depending on their relationship with the Holy See, so too do the current elites see their wealth enhanced or degraded by political patronage. Boeing never missed a major government contract when the powerful triumvirate of Nancy Kassebaum, Bob Dole, and Dan Glickman represented Kansas, where Boeing has a major plant. But when these were replaced by the relatively weak and ineffectual Brownback/Roberts/Tiahrt delegation, Boeing lost a major bid, and to an overseas company to boot. It doesn't help that this delegation is at least 2/3 intellectually dim either; the downside of being able to control a politician is simply that he or she lacks personal power. In this, George W. Bush seems to have won the day for Big Oil but lost the war, as America's global position was weakened vis-a-vis OPEC, its relationship with Russia shot, and its access to Iraqi oil fields remains doubtful. In the short term, the almost unimaginable boon of oil prices at $120 a barrel last year have come back to haunt a wrecked economy and Venezuela and Russia renationalizing their supply. The American people, of course, hardly even enter the picture. Even during election years, they are so docile and suggestible, so apathetic, that it's nearly certain they'll fail to surprise. The election of Barack Obama reinforces this idea. He may be black, but he's also unrelentingly centrist, even conservative, in times that call for bold and progressive action. No puns intended, in Obama the electorate did not back a dark horse, as that would have been a Kucinich or a Nader. The American people have failed to riot in the streets or even calmly protest even in the face of eight years of obvious incompetence, a quarter century of declining wages, and complete economic meltdown. George Orwell, it turns out, was wrong about this: the proles need not be poorly educated. In fact, despite increasing numbers of college degrees, we're now less likely to agitate than we were when things were going relatively well. The system that we purportedly love, that we send our kids to die in order to supposedly protect, has broken down, been hijacked by the same people who have cynically outsourced our jobs and dismantled the industry we worked so hard to create, and in order to “show them” we elected a man who packs his group of economic advisors and regulators with them. It's as if, along with middle-class expectations and middle-class educations, we've also adopted bourgeois conservatism, even if it makes our actual lives less certain, less wealthy, less satisfying overall. The middle class that, in its ascendancy, demanded more freedom is now, in its senility, demanding less. I suppose we get what we deserve, but it is hardly meaningful politically to exist so, with half of us living up to our expectations to vote one way and half the other and neither way promising actual change. What has happened in this country over the past 30 years is the largest voluntary handover of power in history, with literally a hundred million of us not even participating in any election and tens of millions more not demanding that their parties do better. We fail to question the party lines that, inevitably, fail to improve our lives. There is something of the mindset of war about this, and much of that egged on by the Right wing media and the Republican Revolutionaries who took over congress in 1994 but whose first major victory was the Reagan-Bush regime from 1980-1992. We still fight on their battlefields; they have long held the high ground in the minds of most Americans and even the mainstream media so often touted as leftist. The latter are all solidly in the realms of the wealthy, after all, and are still more worried about their investments than the plight of the poor. The Right determines the language--”taxpayers” instead of “citizens,”--and projects the power relationships—the supposed control of the “intellectual elite” and the threat to freedom that is the ACLU. The lack of push-back and redefinition from the Democrats is an indication that they, too buy this language to some degree. This is also why universal single-payer health care, the only system that actually makes sense, is an impossibility in this country. They manage to do this by false dilemmas: the system we have or socialism, the vagaries of the market or the “rationing” of health care, and that feeds into the scorched-earth politics of a two-party state wherein winning is the point, governing is secondary. And the only way to win such costly campaigns is to enlist the power, and thereby pledge fealty to, the rich. The question history will have to ask, and the answer is not exactly clear, is why such a powerful and hopeful and active people gave up on their democracy, why we decided that solutions that actually work were too ideologically scary to try, why making our public servants actually serve the public was too much to bother with after all. |
library_mofo
[ fakeassrarian ]
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10:45a |
Overly polite mofo?
I have complained about our volunteers on here before. I’m starting to think they’re all broken records that get stuck and repeat the same problem over and over. Sometimes people need help completing a task the first couple of times they do it. I get that and I’m glad to patiently explain it to you, show you, then watch you do it with guidance, then step back and have you try it on your own and wait for questions. I can do this a few times even. But when you’ve been here for 8 months and you cannot figure out how to fill in your timesheet – something you’ve done over a dozen times now – I’m about to blow. These are the SAME mistakes you make EVERY time. Really, every time?! I have no idea how to help you any more. I just circle the problems, remind you that we fixed these last time, and quietly walk away. I feel rude for doing this but if I stand there and explain it to you again, I’m going to have to scream it directly into your ear in the hopes that maybe then it will stay in your brain. Also, apologizing every time for every little thing is annoying. When you have to walk behind me in the stacks and you apologize, I don’t care. Just give me an ‘excuse me’ and I’ll move my behind. When you ask me the SAME question for the 10th time, while I’m clearly in the midst of working on something/helping a patron, starting your request with, “I’m sorry but…” No. If you were really sorry, you wouldn’t do it. You’d think about the last time you asked me this question, you’d walk around me, you’d try to solve a basic problem ON YOUR OWN, you’d look at the handouts I’ve given you on how to do it, or you’d sit and look at the dozens of books on the shelf that are in order and look at the pretty pretty patterns until you sort it out. I’m really sick of it. That and the thank yous, for everything make me want to shrivel up and die. I’m a fan of etiquette, believe me I wish my boss used it more often. I also enjoy compliments and appreciation for my work. But when you use thank you in every other sentence that doesn’t involve an “I’m sorry” it losses all value. Thank me for what? Pointing out how to alphabetize authors…AGAIN! Stop thanking me, start listening and learn to DO IT ON YOUR OWN.
Sorry to explode about the rudeness of endless apologies and thanks. I know I sound like a mofo on this one…but I can’t take it any more.
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pomo_village
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2:10p |
Temporal Interiors, a Topography
http://blog.postmodernvillage.com/archives/2009/06/26/421 We can understand time as a series of statements about our affairs. Our interior lives clock better than the watches we make. The Brazilian may linger, may use his presence as a compliment, as Robert Levine would have it: “It is 12:30; class has been over for half an hour, yet here I stand, and we are speaking, you and I.”
A nervous New Yorker may glance at his watch not out of disrespect but from some slow interior meltdown, a neurosis in numbers on an imperturbable dial.
Or he might just want you to notice his timepiece.
Puritanism has its own dire results, its vestiges a steady and straitened rhythm on the town tower, whether Colonial brick and wrought iron or International steel and glass. It says “This much have you lived, and what have you done to show your membership in The Elect?” These days, that translates into mere doing well, rarely into doing good. Do-gooders need not schedule themselves tightly since justice is forever and now.
It’s telling that the new city hall in my town has no exterior clock: it’s a black glass tower. It says “We are the government, but you are on your own.” This structure owes nothing to the church, no single spire, no icon melted into Modernist abstraction. It is as matter-of-fact as the office blocks housing the administrators of industry, and like them it seeks its authority in opacity.
Watches, in particular, are about availability if not always about utility. A black-faced über-simplified Movado with just hands and a single jewel at 12 o’clock says that the user assumes too much–or is in a position to assume a great deal. It is a timepiece for the privileged poseur. All manner of prettification has befallen watches and thereby the reflection of time: a gold Rolex with complications might be paired with an Aston-Martin or a Jag, a Bentley instead of a Rolls. The Swiss Army “field” watches I cling to attempt to convey practicality but also quality, ruggedness, durability, a self-branding most ignore, so my watches communicate more to me than to anyone else, a reminder of some lowly but still quite impossible set of personal ideals and expectations.
Most people under 20 or 25 don’t bother with watches. They use their cellphones instead. This bespeaks not just a lack of internal regimentation (mom always made sure they made their soccer games on time) but also a lack of subordination, an entitlement: they’ve never been anywhere a cell phone was verboten. Relying on a cell phone clock assumes an available network, and this generation is nothing if not heavily networked. They assume networks function as a matter of right. It will be easier to deny this generation health care coverage than high-speed Internet. That the latest technology might be far from reliable has never occurred to them—that it might be unavailable is inconceivable. They are a social people in a way that mine—a batch of “latchkey kids—was not, and that their communication device would also be how they mark time says more about them than all the worried books the their Baby Boomer parents have written.
In the Western world, particularly in the US, it’s hard to find anyone whose life is time-free. Monks and nuns, such as we still have, live lives just as regimented as ours, or moreso. They’re on liturgical time, though, not on schedules set by self-appointed efficiency experts in HR. But I’d hardly call the schedule of a monk “God’s time,” as that seems to have been expressed through planetary motion and is marked by our fitful and sometimes unsuccessful adaptations to it. This time is perhaps most elusive of all, and astronomical and meteorological scholars aside, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone around you aware of the phase of the moon or the precise moment of dusk or dawn. The rise of watches and clocks knelled death to cultures revolving around agriculture, with its intense concern with seasonal changes and its own inland tide. The vestiges of fieldwork remain in the paltry 2 or 3 percent of us who still farm, but I have never met a farmer who didn’t wear a watch, showing that they, too, are more the slaves of the market than the soil. Only the most romantic among us still imagine a farmer who somehow senses the vagaries of wind, the value of a sunbeam more or less; the real ones have one ear open to the commodities futures on the radio with its inevitable readings of time at half-past and on the hour.
In most classrooms, the clock is on the same wall as the chalkboard, a horrible mistake from a pedagogical point of view. High and above the teacher’s shoulder, the clock dominates like a sort of temporary moon, and it steals spark from even the most thunderous of lessons. In the idealized world we try to solidify in the academy, it should only be the teacher who cares about time, not the students. And even then, the teacher should only care for the most practical of reasons. But this, too, is an indication of our state of affairs: the administration is responsible for where the facilities department puts the clock. |
| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | |
hackingnetflix
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hackingnetflix
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7:10p |
Netflix Awarded Patent for Managing Rental Items Across Distribution Locations
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HackingNetflix/~3/YOSspoj2v_Q/netflix-awarded-patent-for-managing-rental-items-across-distribution-locations.html http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/06/netflix-awarded-patent-for-managing-rental-items-across-distribution-locations.html 12:01 Tuesday reports that Netflix was recently awarded a fifth patent, #7,546,252, "Approach for managing rental items across a plurality of distribution locations ." An "inventory free" approach for managing rental items across a plurality of distribution locations includes sending at least some rental items that are not needed by two or more distribution locations to a designated distribution location. Rental items sent to the designated distribution location may be permanently stored at the designated distribution location, returned to the distribution location from which they were sent, or sent to other distribution locations, depending upon where the rental items are needed. In situations where particular rental items are not currently needed by customers at a distribution location, but there is a high likelihood that the particular rental items will be needed by the customers within a specified time, the particular rental items may be maintained at the distribution location as "float" and not sent to the designated distribution location. The float is re-processed as returned rental items prior to being again rented to customers. The determination of whether customers need, or do not need, a particular rental item may be made based upon a wide variety of criteria such as time criteria, actual and predicted customer demand for rental items, actual and predicted returns of rental items, Net Ships and predicted loss and breakage of rental items.
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hackingnetflix
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6:12p |
Netflix Verifying Addresses?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HackingNetflix/~3/LtqPfHqVnqM/netflix-verifying-addresses.html http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/06/netflix-verifying-addresses.html Mark received an e-mail from Netflix, informing him that they have verified his address with the U.S. Postal Service, and they wanted him to confirm that it was correct. Dear Mark, In order to deliver your DVDs to you as quickly as possible, we routinely update our shipping information. Your shipping information has recently been updated by the U.S. Postal Service. Using addresses validated by the U.S. Postal Service ensures the fastest possible delivery of your DVDs. Please verify that the new address listed below is correct. (My correct address is listed here in the email) If this address is correct, you do not need to take any further action as our records have already been updated. If this new address is NOT correct, please update your address information as soon as possible to avoid interruptions in your service. -Your friends at Netflix
Has anyone else received a similar e-mail from Netflix? |
library_mofo
[ maughta ]
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9:58p |
I hate to think what they say when confronted with "Paper or Plastic?"
So my library offers you a choice of library cards; a wallet-sized card or a key-chain card. We ask patrons which they'd prefer. Simple, right? I mean, surely you think to yourself, "hmmm, am I more likely to have my keys or my wallet with me when I come to the library? Do I have room in my wallet/on my key-chain for a card? Do I lose my wallet or my keys more often?" and then make a decision based upon these considerations, no? And typically you can do this in less than a second, yes? Fuck no!!!!! Usually people dither for several minutes, ask the above questions aloud (I have answers for you??), or ask if they can have both (NO!!!!). Today a woman forced me to choose for her. She was already hostile about the process of getting a library card (look, if you don't want one, don't waste my fucking time, bitch) and, when confronted with the wallet/key-chain question, got all up in my face about it and practically growled, "you decide. Whichever one you pick up first." I'm gonna pick up my fuckin' clue-by-four and smack you upside your head, is what I'm gonna pick up! Current Mood:  irritated |
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