The Shifted Librarian - Shifting Libraries at the speed of byte
 Wednesday, October 02, 2002

I'm having a surreal morning and I haven't even left for work yet. I came downstairs to find Kailee on the computer. I almost broke my neck walking by when I saw the word "naked" on the screen. Luckily, she was only looking up "naked mole rats" and she had gone to Animal.com to do it. Whew.

When she got no hits for this query, she exclaimed, "I just want my naked mole rats!" So I showed her how to do phrase searching in Google. I have yet to find out why she is researching naked mole rats. Thank heavens the porn sites haven't thought to use that term on their sites! Please note, too, that if we were using filtering software on our computers, Kailee wouldn't have found any information at all on naked mole rats.

Then I walked into the kitchen where Brent was eating breakfast and watching a Power Rangers show on TV. I walked in at the exact moment when one of the Rangers said, "I would help defeat [some enemy], but first we have to get out from under this dancing spell!"

Ah, but at least Ernie is back!

Addendum: Will believes he's found Kailee's motivation for researching naked mole rats. You can tell that my librarian skills are atrophying, because I didn't do a proper reference interview to determine that Kailee was looking for a particular naked mole rat.

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 Friday, May 10, 2002

Sons cut short their mothers' lives. Having a son shortens a woman's lifespan by eight months - daughters lengthen it by five, according to pre-industrial data [New Scientist]
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