Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Meeting tomorrow

Hey guys, just want to let you know that we are meeting tomorrow at 6 pm. See you there.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Meeting

I sent out an email but I wanted to cover all the bases. We will not be meeting tomorrow because the library is closed. We will be meeting next Thursday at the usual time, 6:00.

Monday, May 21, 2007

For anyone that hasn't heard Lloyd Alexander died last Thursday at age 83.

There's not much I can really think of to say. The world is a poorer place.

Damn it.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A crossword puzzle

If you have absolutely nothing else to do check out the crossword puzzle I will link to below. I created it for our adult summer reading program and it was really hard to do. I had no idea creating a crossword puzzle would be so hard. I almost cried a couple of times. There a few rules of crossword puzzles and I broke two of them. The whole puzzle has to be connected. This one consists of two distinct halves. Also all letters must be in two words. There are two letters in this puzzle that only appear in one word. As difficult as this was I can live with my two little cheats. Enjoy, if you will.

Crossword Puzzle!

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

New Tolkien book

I'm sure you are all familiar with that new Tolkien book. Has anyone read it? I have it sitting on my desk here at the library. I see that it is selling real well.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Love them internets

I haven't read this yet but it was linked to by David Brin and it's a speech given by Vernor Vinge. That's about as confident as I can be about a blind link. The speech is about the future of man. I am going to print it out and read it. Enjoy.

Oh yeah. He talks about the singularity in the speech. It's a concept pretty new to me and here's a definition from the website that has the text of Vinge's speech: Singularity

Defined by Vernor Vinge as the postulated point or short period in our future when our self-guided evolutionary development accelerates enormously (powered by nanotechnology, neuroscience, AI, and perhaps uploading) so that nothing beyond that time can reliably be conceived. The Singularity is a common matter of discussion in transhumanist circles. There is no concise definition, but usually the Singularity is meant as a future time when societal, scientific and economic change is so fast we cannot even imagine what will happen from our present perspective, and when humanity will become posthumanity. Another definition is the singular time when technological development will be at its fastest.