Thing 3: Flickr

They call it flickr, flickr, faster than lightning.

So I'm checking out the flickr and doing searches for librarians and bowling. To my surprise, the Claremont Colleges have a whole set from their SCELC bowling tournament. Here are the tags for this picture: scelc, scelcbowling, librarians, bowling, lotcc, and librariesoftheclaremontcolleges. Awesome is not a tag for this picture, but it should be.

As I suspected, the Claremont Colleges have a worthy library system.

Agony of Defeat

This clip is great and shows why and how bowling makes great sports television. Just last week I was watching bowling with my buddy and commented that I never see Chris Barnes win on TV . . . sort of like Parker Bohn III in the 1990s when he was still married to Mary.

And then, there's yesterday, in the Tournament of Champions, one of the three Triple Crown tournaments, this happened to Barnesy. Thank goodness he has a lovely wife and children to console him. I give you the second half for that's when the emotional and psychological collapse begins.

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.