geeky family

The last few days I've been without reliable wireless access. But now I'm at my grandparents, with the geeky side of the family. Seven laptops, three of which are macs. Earlier they were playing with Youtube, and my uncle and I have been IMing each other across the house.

Now you see where I get it from.

The areas of my expertise:

So, iTunes is giving away the audiobook version of John Hodgman's Areas of my Expertise. (That link will take you to the iTunes store if you have iTunes installed. If you don't, I don't think it does anything. Sorry.) Now this book would be worth a download anyway, because John Hodgman makes me giggle. Seriously. But the bonus in listening to the audiobook is the addition of music by Jonathan Coulton, who makes me giggle until I wet my pants.

(Yes, I know I can't concentrate on audiobooks. I'll manage.)

BONUS! John does and interview (Jonathan's there too!), and the whole thing's on YouTube.



Extra bonus: Jonathan in concert. He sings about Zombies. Zombie singalong!

argh.

I got a speeding ticket this morning. Yep, it must be Friday.

Librarian Trading Cards

I just bought the most comfortable sweatpants in the world from Wal-Mart. I may never wear any other pants ever again. I love them so much, I even put them on my avatar. Can we change the dress code at the library to include sweatpants? Pretty please?

Also, I now have Pirates of the Carribean 2 and a nifty free t-shirt. See what you missed while you were sleeping? :)

Social Networking at work, or, I'm a winner (and I just might share the booty!)

Earlier in the summer, the library MySpace was friended by a young adult author named Heather Brewer. She wrote about vampires, and I thought "Gee, I bet our teens would love to read her book when it comes out." (And hey, who am I kidding? I would too.) So when she posted a MySpace bulletin about sending out free "minion" buttons, I emailed her and told her to send me a handful, if she could. When they showed up in the mail, I passed them out at Summer Reading that night, and we all took a picture of us wearing our minion buttons. I sent it to Heather, and she posted it on her blog with the rest of the pictures she had gotten from her "Minions". (She has since revamped --no pun intended-- her blog, so the pictures no longer load, but we were there.)

So recently Heather had a "Bat to School" contest, where you were entered in a drawing for various goodie bags and prizes if you signed up for her little newsletter. Seeing as how I will never remember when her new book actually comes out (August 2007, I had to look it up) I signed up. And guess who won?

That would be me. I came home today to find this lovely little package on the dining room table.



Inside, there were all sorts of goodies, including my actual prize, the rather nifty bat wing wallet.







Yay social networking!