Category — Microblog Mondays

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Oldster ran a pre-obit a few weeks ago, written by a husband for his wife. He wanted her to be able to see what would be said about her before she died. This part made me cry: “I think now of that mountain and I think of your smile, and the joy of our weird, dirty honeymoon comes back to me. I will always be happy walking with you wherever we go, however high the mountains get.”

I really love the idea of a pre-obit, much more than actual obits. Or the pre-funeral in The Fault in Our Stars rather than an actual funeral. When possible, people should know how you feel.

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Clues by Sam is one of those games that you can pick up and play for a moment when you’re in between things. It’s a logic puzzle where you have a board of 20 people, and you have to figure out which ones are innocent and which ones are criminals based on the clues revealed in the game. So, for instance, the first clue could be, “There are no innocents between Larry and Hilda.” You look and see that Adam is between Larry and Hilda, so you can mark him as a criminal.

It gets progressively more difficult during the week, but it’s hard to get stuck because you can always get hints.

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I heard a person use the term “tangible media,” and it was such a perfect term to describe my relationship to books (and movies and music). I like tangible versions of most things. I especially do not want to invest money in intangible versions.

So I like streaming the least because it’s just a gatekeeper to intangible media. If you pay, you can access what is behind the gate. You cannot control what is behind the gate. You can pay to go behind the gate, be in the middle of using media, and have your access end due to licensing or corporate decisions.

I like paid intangible media slightly better because I pay once and have access indefinitely. Or, at least, until licensing issues get in the way because you don’t truly own your digital media. If the platform or product goes away, the media goes away, too.

I like tangible media the best, even though I like reading library ebooks. This is why I purchased three paper books this month so far and zero ebooks. I like to hold paper books and know that they are mine unless I misplace them or give them away.

How do you feel about tangible and intangible media?

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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.

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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!

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