A Week Or Two Ago.

"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

2000-2005

this scene really highlights one of the most impressive parts of yotsuba to me, which is how effectively its able to recreate for an adult audience the sense of wonder that very young children have towards the world, giving us a taste of just how strange and interesting seemingly normal things are to someone as young as yotsuba. the way the geese are quietly built up to through strange sound effects, and how the camera shows their approach in detail, how it lingers on yotsubas reaction and lets us take in just how new and exciting this is to her, before hitting us with a double page spread of that same thing on an overwhelming scale... its masterful

cats have pointy ears that look like this ^. .^ and they hold them up all day long and they're so brave for that. we shouls all thank them for.their little triangle ears....

Also non book stuff too, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, ebooks, 3d printing (not everywhere but more places than you'd think), computer access, bathrooms!

And lots of libraries have self-checkout now if you don't want to interact with anybody! Although it's good to get to know your library staff if that's an option since they're great resources.

Libraries are such an incredible resource and as a voracious reader I am so thankful we get to enjoy them!

...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

Sunset.

My picture of today's tornado near Dillon, Montana.

Just received a (partial) SSTV broadcast from the ISS! I used an RTL-SDR with a 1/4 wave dipole and the robot36 app

chromosomes? no sorry i use firefox