Renfield (
darchildre) wrote2012-11-29 03:51 pm
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Entry tags:
(no subject)
Things:
- There is a lady who comes in to the library every day and uses the computers for hours. She surfs the web, she prints out dozens of pages about a huge variety of topics every day. I have just learned that she does not understand the use of the address bar. Apparently, the google search box has mysteriously disappeared from the browsers on the public computers and that was the only thing she ever used. I'm not sure why this boggles my mind so much, but it does.
- One of my favorite things about adagio.com (I mean, besides the fact that I generally like their tea) is the ability to make blends of teas. And the fact that, apparently, there is a large enough segment of fandom that has discovered this and wants to make and buy fannish teas that they have a whole "fandom blends" subheading on their blends page. That is adorable and makes me ridiculously happy.
- (I make my own ridiculous fannish blends. Most of them are monster-based (so, yeah, I have Dracula and Frankenstein tea sometimes), but sometimes they are based on random original characters from my mental-story-of-the-moment. I like that I can make them private and then not have to explain my ridiculous tea to people.)
- So, my parents and I have been watching Alias, now that it's all streaming on Netflix. (That is the major reason (other than grar) behind my listening to Assassins today.) It is pretty awesome - we're at the beginning of season 2 and I'm enjoying it immensely. (I fear we will be losing my Dad as a watching partner soon, as the show edges more and more into sci-fi territory.) I do have to admit that I would be slightly happier watching it if it were not about the main character. I mean, Sydney is fine and I like having a woman lead in my action-spy-shenannigans show, but she is so much less interesting than pretty much everyone around her. (Well, except for Vaughn, who is less interesting than a table.) Still, it's fun. And now this item has way too many parenthetical asides - my apologies.
- ...and then I had to explain to a patron that no, the catalog search box on the library website cannot be used to access google. And that is my day.
- There is a lady who comes in to the library every day and uses the computers for hours. She surfs the web, she prints out dozens of pages about a huge variety of topics every day. I have just learned that she does not understand the use of the address bar. Apparently, the google search box has mysteriously disappeared from the browsers on the public computers and that was the only thing she ever used. I'm not sure why this boggles my mind so much, but it does.
- One of my favorite things about adagio.com (I mean, besides the fact that I generally like their tea) is the ability to make blends of teas. And the fact that, apparently, there is a large enough segment of fandom that has discovered this and wants to make and buy fannish teas that they have a whole "fandom blends" subheading on their blends page. That is adorable and makes me ridiculously happy.
- (I make my own ridiculous fannish blends. Most of them are monster-based (so, yeah, I have Dracula and Frankenstein tea sometimes), but sometimes they are based on random original characters from my mental-story-of-the-moment. I like that I can make them private and then not have to explain my ridiculous tea to people.)
- So, my parents and I have been watching Alias, now that it's all streaming on Netflix. (That is the major reason (other than grar) behind my listening to Assassins today.) It is pretty awesome - we're at the beginning of season 2 and I'm enjoying it immensely. (I fear we will be losing my Dad as a watching partner soon, as the show edges more and more into sci-fi territory.) I do have to admit that I would be slightly happier watching it if it were not about the main character. I mean, Sydney is fine and I like having a woman lead in my action-spy-shenannigans show, but she is so much less interesting than pretty much everyone around her. (Well, except for Vaughn, who is less interesting than a table.) Still, it's fun. And now this item has way too many parenthetical asides - my apologies.
- ...and then I had to explain to a patron that no, the catalog search box on the library website cannot be used to access google. And that is my day.