Comments on: History of the Whole World: Do Not Want.

By: mixolidius

mixolidius — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:33:32 +0000

OK. Katryn. I’ve just offered my friendship to your avatar in SL. Mine is “PacoLopez Heron” (my name in real life is Paco López Hernández). I hope we can met, despite of our terribly different time zones!

I’ll go on reading you. Greetings from Spain!

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:32:29 +0000

Sue C, meet snail. snail, meet Sue C. I believe you two may have needs that dovetail

I admit to having more library discard editions of Pears Cyclopedia than is proper.

Sue W…those must have been some “just smile through gritted teeth”moments – although for me early on in mummy-hood, a sleep-deprived night could make my mouth engage before my brain and I sometimes called a spade a spade, and broke mummy-etiquette.

mixolidius…thanks….maybe sometime we can speak in Second Life with a Spanish/English translation HUD switched on. My avatar is Emerald Dumont if you’d like to friend her.

By: mixolidius

mixolidius — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:48:15 +0000

Thanks to you, Kathryn. I find your blog very, very interesting and I think that this will not be the last time I’ll quote you. I’m just beginning in Second Life and I need to learn about it and its applications in librarianship and your blog is a fabulous place for doing it.

(Sorry for my awful English… I used to translate it, but to speak and to write it…)

By: snail

snail — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:34:47 +0000

As techie as I am, I have a bit of a “thing” for reference books. Got several editions of Who’s Who, a few scifi encyclopedias, and various other bits and pieces. I don’t yet have the Britannica (though I narrowly missed an unused set a few years ago. The one thing I really desire is a full printed set of the OED. Mmmm…

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:07:49 +0000

I just love mother’s conversations. Check out these ones:

1. I really like the conversation that it is more important for a boy to have a good education (i.e. to go to a really good school) than a girl because after all the male will be bringing in the wages and supported the family.
2. Then there was the conversation about University education being a waste, and people with that have a Uni education being weird – not normal.

You may be thinking these conversations were in the early 1900s, but no they were by friends in the early 2000s.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:57:29 +0000

The timeline of change is smaller than generational. I bought a set of Brittanica just after my 15 year old was born. It came out as a CD for 10% of the price only a few years later and then they stopped selling the books. Of course she has only ever used them on the rare occasion that I suggested that it may be slightly faster than booting up the computer. We even bought a bookcase to accomodate them. Maybe if I hang onto them long enough I could sell them as collectors items? Nah- anyone want a very slightly used set of Brittanica?