I Pad photo

Okay so one funciton on the i Pad I really like using is the camera - it has nice resolution and this photo is the first time I have tried it using artificial light - it had got pretty dark by the time I stopped weaving and I am relying on the lamp here. Also I am blogging from Picasa which is interesting - quite simple and easy but no place to add tags....

This is a test of Picasa blogging function - (Kate;s beauty tip - always pose with a beautiful animal - it distracts the veiwer from your double chin)

Canada Day Weekend Knitting obsession

I am a sucker for varigated yarn and this was a ball of soft cotton textured acrylic computer dyed for a self patterning cowel. (why I bought it is actually another story - as if one needs an excuse to buy vivid yarn) I thought it made terrific baby booties - 4 pairs - no two alike.  On my EDO - July 4th I found myself buying 3 more balls of the stuff.  There are little feet out there just waiting for something gaudy. (photographed with the I-pad I might add - thanks 23 things....will there be 23 booties?)

one for the other blogger

Uncle Lew has been perservering at the blog and has chastized me severly for letting mine lapse....well she has a point...for one thing I am still -about 17 books short of the 23 and recently I found a worthy candidate.

http://tsspivet.com/  it even has a spiffy website.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet  by Reif Larsen got mixed reviews - New York Times panned it, and I haven't got to the point where some critics felt disappointed.  But I suspect Nick Bantock fans would love it.

Social Media, politics,

Good advice strikes again

Sara Evans advises - If you want privacy - don't tweet.

Quantum the Invisible NSL Library Cat agrees and has stated many times : the best thing about my life is being invisible.

An interesting article on Higher Education

Live and Learn

by Louis Menand from the New Yorker.  Yes it is about the history of and current state of Colleges in the USA but I think can easily be applied to our experience on University in Canada.  I like the way he takes the long view. 
(thanks to Silent Servants for the link)

blush - winner who me? I-Pad 2

I was off on vacation Wednesday afternoon and Thursday for a rehearsal and to sing with the Raging Grannies at the BBQ for Station 20 West so I got the news after I got home from the BBQ yesterday.  Pat phoned and left a message.  What a wonderful surprise!  I also have one very excited geek of a husband now.:-)

Quantum the  invisible NSL Library Cat is also very excited about this I-paw thing - I just hope she doesn't decide to take it apart to see how it works - she spends so much time napping in the Computer Science collection.

Thanks again for all the work the team put into the 23 things.  It was  a lot of fun and sometimes a tiny bit of frustration and I really enjoyed reading everyone's blogs and learning more about other people on staff.  Proud to be working with such a diversely talented group of people 

...um I hope this doesn't mean I have to return that cool little memory stick!

As for the book du jour - get ready - coming to an eager Happy Leopard Representative real soon - Book of Days