Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

I am not a fan of Libby’s new holds system. I’ve heard the “why” behind the decision to force people to suspend instead of delay holds, but I haven’t heard “how” the new system will achieve that “why.” Unless they explain how the new system will be more efficient and help stretch library budgets, it seems like an arbitrary decision that makes things slightly harder for the user without actually changing anything for the library.

It may end up using up budgets faster if people check out more books than they can reasonably read instead of delaying, and then let the checkout sit on their shelf until it auto-returns, and then get back into the holds queue again.

I’ll keep using Libby because libraries are awesome, but I really wish the rollout came with an explanation of how this system will be better, not just state that it will be better.

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

I find this “clock” relaxing to watch, though I set it on the hex code screen using the # button. If I see a colour I like, I quickly take a screenshot so I can replicate it elsewhere because the hex code is printed over the colour. While it jumps sometimes to a new colour (e.g., red instead of blue), inside each section, it moves in a pretty predictable way. If you miss a colour, you can figure it out by changing the sixth digit one or two ahead or behind.

Enjoy!

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

Someone shared this older list of words you may not know, and… the author was correct. Most of these were words I didn’t know. I knew (and use) three: tine, petchichor, and interrobang. How about you?

And what is another word that you know that I may not know? Teach me a new word.

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

NASA has a tool where you can write your name (or any word) in Landsat satellite images. So a winding river may become the S, and a jagged mountain range may become an M. Sometimes you need to squint to see the word emerge in the images. But did I immediately put in all four of our names and pull out images? Yes, I did. And did I text those images on our family text chain? Yes, I did. And did anyone else think it was as cool as I did?

Well, no, they did not.

But I like them.

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

I know I say every game is my new favourite, but this one has the staying power of a Wordle.

With Whittle, you get two unrelated words. You have to tap letters to erase them while still making real words. For instance, “adds” can become “ads” if you erase the second “D,” but you cannot erase the “A” and make “dds.”

You win when you erase all letters, but then you can continue playing until you find all of the hidden words. Once you win, you see the words you’ve already found near the bottom of the screen with a blank box for any missing words. This is helpful because you can know how many letters the missing word has, and it goes in alphabetical order, so you can know the missing word comes between these two words you’ve found.

It is really brilliant and super simple. And it’s the sort of thing you can keep putting down and coming back to as you try to find the final few. Plus, you can play the archive, so there are hours of play.

Love this.

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.