Library Elf--what number was that? 12?

Forging his way through the wild western lung, Conan the Librarian is constantly on the move. He explores, he discovers, he conjugates verbs. But more than anything, he journeys. Traveling so much, he has a lot of library cards to keep track of and finds the library elf a very useful way to consolidate the relevant information in one place.

His author, however, pretty much just uses the harris county library system, and could check the hcpl account as easily as the elf account, so said author doesn’t see a great personal value in elf usage. What is more, by making Conan the Librarian’s life easier, library elf has entirely destroyed several promising stories the author was going to write about Conan’s valiant attempts to return library books on time.

Um, yeah.

11b

I forgot I was supposed to include a link.

And it's not linking correctly hang on...
okay, got it.

#11--Y'know the thing... with the stuff... okay I don't know.

Neat.

The most basic levels of this are extremely user-friendly. The unrecommendations were fun but not remotely accurate and generally not even comprehensible. (The reasoning behind them I mean) It'll take more time to really troll through and devour all the wonderfulness of this, but neat.

I was initially worried that it seemed to insist on always displaying the same book on my blog--and it was one of the few that didn't have a title, but today it's showing a different one, so I guess it is working as I had intended so... cool.

#10 Which is of course not the 10th post, because that would make too much sense.

So far, the avatar-makers have been a matter of 'take what we give you.' Plus yahoo caught me by surprise--I managed to get something vaguely barbarianesque together with a library background and only then discovered that it wouldn't post to my blog (or maybe it can but I haven't discovered how). In any case I made a meez which is up at the top of the page now. Doesn't really feet the theme of the blog though, but we take what we can get.

I think I've just figured the magazine make out well enough to make book covers with it. But everything keeps throwing the same lack of flexibility at me. Which I guess is to be expected.

#9 Feeding the RSS

The RSS was hungry (which doesn't make sense--so instead of Really Salty Steak or whatever it's now Random Stationary Starian, Starians being residents of the lone star lung. And off we go) so Conan the Librarian set out to find food or "feeds" for him.

Oddly enough, he (I) found it easier to go the the sites I was already aware of and find the feeds there. On the whole I didn't find the feed-locators any more usefull for finding feeds than standard search engines just designed to search for websites. But the real issue in making the resource worthwhile (it seems to me) is a commitment of coming back and checking on things.

It just occured to me--I don't think I thought to check the onion for blog links. Zounds. [tangent]Which incidentally rhymes with "wounds" not "hounds". [/tangent]

So anyway, Conan found the feeds and fed the star
and all were happier by far
and so through lone-star skies we'd see
there's no escape from my bad poetry.

#8: Conan The Librarian discovers his inner chef.

And lo, as Conan the Librarian ventured through the great highways and byways of the great land of Tech-Sass, he discovered that exploring is hungry work--sooner of later you have to eat something. A friend at a Librarian Explorers Annonymous meeting suggested Really Salty Sirloin.

Conan was surprised to learn that he already had a bloglines account, no doubt something he had signed up for years ago and never bothered to figure out. Looking over things, he found it marvelously easy prepare Really Salty Sirloin, and other assorted Unsalted Roast Loins Servings. Actually consuming the product once he had assembled it he found a little more challenging.

I found bloglines extremely user-friendly to set up. Actually using it once set up seems to be a little more challenging. I'm not sure though--some of it may just be that the system needs a little time to catch up with the blogs or maybe I just need a little more time and exposure to get used to the interface. I particularly see potential here for breathing life back into things I can't find the time for--I certainly can't be bothered to keep up with myspace or livejournal, but I could potentially glance at bloglines for updates.