Last Night's Bowling Scores

Because you all care and I have a captive virtual audience:

Here are my bowling scores: 214-203-247 for a 664 series. That's a 221 average for last night. Not great, but not bad either.

In team news, we won 4 out of 4.

Last Night's Bowling Scores

Because you all care and I have a captive virtual audience:

Here are my bowling scores: 267-233-223 for a 723 series. For those who can't divide by three at home, that's a 241 average last night. Booyakasha!

In team news, we won 4 out of 4.

SCELC Vendor Day Bowling Tournament

What! Why did no one tell me about this tournament? Does the library world not want the services of perhaps the best bowler/information scientist west of the Atlantic?

Read more about this tournament here:

http://scelc.org/meetings/vendorday/2007/letsgobowling.html

Being held about an hour away, I feel I should attend the 2008 SCELC Vendor Day. The powers that be have got to recognize my bowling greatness. Don't make me demonstrate my information seeking bad behavior to discover that the vendors won last year. Just don't.

This is no idle threat. Fueled by righteousness and outrage caused by 8-10% annual increases for databases and a weak dollar, I can reclaim some (L)IS pride by taking home the SCELC trophy (engraved with my name of course).

As you can see, I'm working for you, information professional.

Thing 2: Blogging (Part 2), or It Came from the Blog Search

Blog searching -- the assignment for this exercise was to use blog search engines to find blogs worthy enough to be linked to "The Bowling Librarian." I used the terms bowling, then horse racing and discovered the following.

1. Technorati

I thought this was the best search engine, allowing one to search by posts and by blog. There are a lot of posts out there, but the posts feature allowed me to find some blogs on my favorite topics. Searching was imprecise (despite the tons of search options), and I had to go through a lot of results to pick the wheat from the chaff, but I was pleasantly surprised by what I found -- e.g. Into the Bit.

2. Blogscope

Though it looks cool, I didn't find this one or the charts or graphs all that useful. And the hits I was getting didn't seem to be as relevant as the technorati search I did earlier.

3 Sphere
This news-related blog might be interesting for breaking news. It would've been interesting to use this during the Santiago Canyon fires, when everyone was searching for news and blogs first captured pictures and news of the events.

4. Blog.Ask.com
This site is okay . . . but perhaps I'm not using it for the right purposes. The feeds on the right are all things I've seen before. I didn't really discover anything new.

Last Night's Bowling Scores

Because you all care and I have a captive virtual audience:

Here are my bowling scores: 277-223-267 for a 767 series. For those who can't divide by three at home, that's a 255 average last night. Booyakasha!

In team news, we won 3 out of 4.

A hybrid discovered, on Biographia Literaria

This Samuel Coleridgesque librarian was found via google . . . and I'll have another post soon detailing my experience with search engines. But google seems to uncover more juicy blog entries than other search engines I've tried.

Anyway, back to the blogster, Lorna, a librarian in training who also happens to have fallen for bowling. Click here to read more about her bowling experiences and her friends' disdain for community bowling shoes.

As with all information professionals, I'm impressed with her wide-ranging knowledge of literature (Proust) and film (The Big Lebowski). And her comic story of "The Pin" marks her as a literary wit in the tradition of Dorothy Parker. If only she'd come across the pond and work in the U.S.

Pete Weber, Bowling Hero

Turkey Bowling

Okay, now I'm linking to Youtube. Let the good times roll.

Turkey bowling

Thing 2: Blogging (Part 1)

I learned that it is very easy to create a blog -- no wonder there are so many of them out there! I also learned that it is difficult to place a diaeresis over a vowel; my solution was to cut and paste it from a Word document. I look forward to adding video in future blog posts. I do wonder how much space do I actually get for this blog, and am pleasantly surprised that so much is available for simply having a gmail account.

Pleased as punch with the trading card application. Not frustrated, as of yet. And the whole site is intuitive.

Genesis

Nature abhors a vacuum, and I was shocked to discover that not one blog exists detailing the hybridization of librarians and bowlers. My niche blog rectifies this situation, thereby appeasing Nature.

The birth of this blog is the result of an official mandate. To read more about our 10 simple rules for dating my library blog, click on the following: http://ucilib10things.blogspot.com/

The rest of this blog will be a record of my learning curve in the 2.0 world, as well as detailing awesome bowling news of note. So as Tobias Fünke says, "Let the great experiment begin!"