The brochure shows all the different sections of teen tech 101 he is teaching. Now those of you who knew the Librarian in the Salad Days must be scratching your head and wondering: 'what in hell's got into him'. The librarian spend a better part of his school years avoiding any and all opportunities to give speeches or presentation or just talk to people he has never met. But this time not only did I think up the program, but I volunteered to present it, and practically had to beg them to let me do it. Jeez, do you think the Librarian is growing up? End of an Era, don't cha think. So check out the myspace page and let me know what anyone thinks. Make sure you click over to the podcast page and listen to some of podcast that the teens came up with. If anyone is a member of myspace, please become my friend. I am very lonely. Thanks.
Here are a few pictures of the Librarians Brood:
Here is a shot of the bash brothers sans clothes. They feel it is their right to lolly gag around the house in nothing but a diaper. Well that doesn't fly at the Brevason house. Its all about the work there and standing around it in your all together does not work for us.
Here is a shot of a Harry in the present he got from the Ku Kluk Klan Grand Wizard. Needless to say he did not keep it. You have to nip that sort of thing in the bud early or the next thing you know he wants to get whole slew of Hitler cats, and that ain't kosher. Dig.
Here is a shot of the new guys eating in their brightly colored seats. I wonder why adults can't have brightly colored things, everything is in earth tones- wood or metal blah. I want a bright red table with stripy plates and glowing tumblers, is that so much ask. Whatever !!
That's all for now. See you around the library.
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Good for you JTL. It's good to see you flexing your internet skills and educating teens. Kudos for your initiative. It sounds like being a librarian really agrees with you.
But I've got some gripes. First, the proper term is "Kitler". Don't you read your own posts? Second, you recycled two picts of the kids from an earlier post and removed them from the earlier post. Are you trying to trick your devote readers into thinking you are putting in more time than you actually are? Third, why does the Teen myspace page say no iPods? Why single out the biggest and best MP3 player on the market? Steve Jobs is the only CEO of a company in the MP3 market pressuring the music industry to stop the practice of digital rights managment so all MP3's can the same music no matter where it is bought. You would never see Bill Gates encourage another company to make it easier for users to use a non-Microsoft product. Plus I don't get trying to stop iPods when that is what most teens are likely to own. Also don't forget that Podcasts were created for iPods and wouldn't be around if it weren't for iPods (that's where "pod" in "podcasts" comes from).
Thanks for the nice words about the Librarians career. As for your cranky little criticisms: in a nutshell - you are mistaken my little friend. If Kilter is actually in the post it is a typo and as Frank Burns once said, "I don't chew my Cabbage Twice". Especially with typos. As for your man-love for Mr. Jobs I still say that the IPOD sucks. Oh, sure it works fine and dandy until you need a new battery and then you have to mail it in to get a replacement or attempt minor surgery yourself. If that is not bad enough lets say you have an IPOD, but now you want to change to a ZEN or Scandisk- the Librarian approved device. All you files are in ACC format that will not work on you new equipment, you can convert, but it is a big pain in the ass. So the Librarian matra is to just say no to the IPOD- don't believe the hype.
p.s I actually just put it in there to get the kids all riled up. Of course the only one that mentioned it was you, PJ, so why don't you go in your bedroom and kiss you Steve Jobs poster right on the lips and think about the giant bowie knife that he stuck in his pal Wozniak's back. Jobs is sitting on a Mt Everest pile of money and poor stevie is teaching a bunch of kids the goto command. Life real fair sometimes.
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Hey, I never said I loved Jobs. He is a major butt hole but that doesn't mean everything he does is therefore poisoned. Digital rights management screws up transferring music to other devices and not Apple. Get your facts straight bucko. Jobs is on the side of right this time.
As far as the battery problem, I'll give you that one. So let's check the scorecard.
JTL = 1
Mr. Jobs = 897
I also see JTL dodged the recycling of picts comment. It seems to me I remember JTL mentioning something about not chewing his cabbage twice? Hmmm.
The is a very good reason why I did not mention the picture replacement- I just plum forgot. I deleted the pictures from the previous post because since I rarely post- as you so helpfully pointed out- I posted the same pictures twice. I post at home and the upload time over our DSL line is comically long so I did not want to do it again and the second time around I had some of my witty comments that made the previous post suck so I just changed it. Thanks for closely reading the Librarians page. Maybe, since you are such a faithful reader, you could start a fan club or something. I would really like that .
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I like it! A JTL fan club. Can I keep all the proceeds or do I have to share with JTL. I think we need to negotiate the perks. As Prez of the fan club I would expect nothing less than back room passes to the library to see JTL in his full work environment. I'll start writing up the bylaws today and we can work out the details off-line.
People are not allowed in the library back room. I am not sure what made you think that you could just waltz in there, but people are not allowed. C apish. It is great that you are president of the JTL fanclub, but to actually think that you would be allowed in the back is, well, just silly. So write up the bylaws and the Librarian will give the nod if he feels them.
Cause thats how he rolls.
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Not to keep beating a dead horse, but I just wanted to make sure you hear the news about Apple and EMI.
Again, it's all about the digital rights controlled by the big labels and not Apple's iPod. It's O.K. Mr. Librarian, I accept formal apologies.
Oh, I heard about apple and EMI and I do have a few comments. First the EMI announcement has nothing to do with apple. EMI is making their catalog available to everyone not just itunes, Jobs just sticks his big fat butt in middle because he thinks he is running the record business now- and he probably is. Also, EMI is allowing digtal rights management, but for $1.25, a increase. This is similar to when cd came out and they said that they had to charge more because of the production costs and prices would come down eventually, but the price never came down- regardless to amount of music on the disc. And they are doing it again. They should be dropping the price and getting people that file share to come back from the dark side, but they won't. Mr Apple needs an extra quarter for each song, why, because his solid gold tub needs a extra coat.
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