Not So Sharp, Afterall

I sent my paper with a bunch of spaces in the file name, and duh, it's not legal in Linux. So I had to resend it, and trouble the TA's with a mistake I knew enough to avoid.


Venting area, highly pressurized contents!!!

Warning: The following editorial is not entirely factual. Much like "Double Fold" things have been hyperbolized to make it more interesting. Unlike "Double Fold," this is satire...so feel free to laugh :)

So, since yesterday, I've been really deep into The Double Fold. So the technophobe learned how to use a wordprocessor, good for him! If you believe everything he writes, librarians are a fascist group of conservatives (not me) who design bombs on their own time (not me), and utilize that technology to create air-bombs out of books (oooh, neat!).

Every depicted librarian has a checkered past, and is put through the wringer of background checks and are cast in the worst possible light. All because libraries throw away old newspapers. Wow...

I can't wait to retire and have nothing better to do than keep a bunch of bird cage liners in my basement and spend all of my money on keeping them from getting wet, moldy, brittle, hacked slashed, and worst of all...recycled. Stupid environmentalists! I wish I wasn't one!!!

I'm all for conservation and preservation, but this dude reminds me of patrons that come in thinking this is like the infinitely sized (and staffed, and funded...) "Invisible Library" from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and have a fit when we throw away James Patterson's 1700th novel published 20 years ago because the glued binding ended up in worse shape than the horse that provided it (apologies to Kentucky Derby fans and PETA). InterLibrary Loan is a wonderful thing.

I admit, it would be nice if everybody tithed 10% of their earnings to the library budgets so we could be the miracle workers, everybody thinks we should be. So, I am enjoying hating this Baker guy, a fellow Maine resident. I may go up and visit him and offer a six pack to sneeze all over his dusty collection. Thank goodness Dr. Tomer said some of the book was inaccurate, for a minute I was afraid I was just...well, another fascist.

Final word, I think books and prints are precious, lets just cut out the melodrama and admit that technology is lovely in the right hands. And quit giving good, level headed leftists (like me), a bad name. Just ease up there Mr. Buckaroo Banzai Baker, and your point would be well taken.