Hilary Booth... of course!

After neadods's prompting, I did some DW icons. Caps are from "Tooth and Claw". I included the bases because I'm not the best with fonts.

( 6 DW icons; 10th Doctor )

Gacked from sailormac and normadesmond:

Make me an icon. (Or get someone else to make it for you, I'm not picky.) It can be just a cropped picture or a simple line of black text on a white background. However, what I'm looking for is an icon that you really, really think I should have or use. Something that you feel typifies me. Soemthing you feel would make an appropriate default icon. Show me what you think of me and/or my journal.

Not having a good night. I feel dreadful. I have a sinking feeling I've been coming down with something for the past week or so, but have been in steadfast denial. Or combined with other yuckiness so couldn't see it for what it was. They always hit together, have you noticed? It's been sapping my energy big time. I've been sleeping way too much lately. I suspect this will be a weekend where I hide under the covers or curl up on the main couch.

arch_icons: New community for archaeology/anthropology oriented icons.

Feeling somewhat better. The extra sleep certainly isn't hurting my cause.

The voting in aesthetic_icons's first contest is over. I won third place in the base contest for the Dicksee "Yseult" base. There were some very pretty entries and interesting to see the variety in artists.

( Third place banner )

Alphasmart is working merrily away. I figured out how to send the files over to my computer through USB cable this morning. Basically it works like a keyboard emulator, sending the file line by line.

You're probably tired of hearing me complain about the weather. But darnit, I was hoping to feel like "doing stuff" as in outside in the sunshine, but no, another torrential downpour appeared where there had been beautiful sun for the last day or two. I was humming the line from Guys and Dolls "Likes mud, likes mud, this guy says the horse likes mud," until I watched another horse race on by. And that folks is why I can't get too excited about a possible Triple Crown. Although I was vastly amused to discover Roger Clemens could not even beat the Cubs for his 300th victory. After listening to Kathy Agel expound on the virtues of the Yankees for an hour and how Roger would win it against the Red Sox at Media West, I feel strangely vindicated.

I have posted the first set of icons over at remember_wenn. Bless gpsysngbrd for the nice screen captures. The blank ones are free to be used and adapted and captioned.

Girls only RPG started on Friday with the character generation session, along with discussions about the "game contract", as in what we want and don't want in the campaign. I had never experienced that sort of input before, so I wasn't sure what I could offer in the way of ideas. We're using the new Marvel game system, set in the fictional San Angelo. Which prompted a crash course in "gaming math". I was again reminded of Helene Hanff who wrote "I don't add too well in plain American. I haven't a prayer of ever mastering bilingual arithmetic." After being amused to read a comparison between character generation and Dewey cataloguing, I mentioned this at the game wherein one of my gaming friends retorted "Does this make Gurps the Library of Congress?"

Finally caved in and bought a subscription to Chronicle of Higher Education on a month to month basis. I've found too many interesting articles through that magazine, like the essay contest by Fairleigh Dickinson University on "Academic Libraries in 2012", archived on Dr. James Marcum's website. I love playing "What if?" and "Why not?" It's part of the reason I love science fiction so much. I willingly admit that some of the ideas seem a bit far-fetched, but the writer in me wants to take a spin through that hypothetical world. If the librarians or Cybrarians as one group called them now use VR technology to work with customers, do they work remotely? With wireless connections these days, it almost doesn't even make sense for users to come to the reference desk. I was able to get help from Library of Congress' microfilm connection by a simple email form. Extend that "Ask a Librarian" even further to see what you might get.