Appropriate technology (lesson#7)

Here's a little bit about technology of the old fashioned kind. Simple stuff using found objects (plastic bottles, old washing machine tubing, old fermenter, etc.) to channel rainwater (oh so precious in SE Australia) into my near empty ponds.

This is what will save the world (if it works)

FlickrFun (lesson no.5)

Pictures speak louder...

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Pig Pass ^

Seven & a half habits of a boar

2.0 learning starts with your 7&1/2 habits of lifelong learners most of which were a bit too obvious to remember, but go here if you need more info than your likely to get from me. The podcasts are in American, I'm afraid, much as I love our big cousins, it is a bit... oh, you know.

I do remember something about helping others so I've been prodding along a couple of my "special" friends here at the library in the Art of Blogging. Best trotter forward, and all that. I'll collect a deserved slap or two for that "special" comment, but only if the "specials" figure out how to read this, I might be safe.

And the half bit was about having fun, so I'll have a go, though Misery I find suits me better.

I think no. 1 was setting a goal for this, such as doing a podcast. This might be a go. I think maybe an archive of some of the brilliant jokes lodged in obscure folds of my grey matter, that this modern fast-paced world and the Young People of Today are in danger of losing forever. Where would the world be without:

"My dog has no nose"
"How does it smell?"
"Terrible"

"My wife's going to the West Indies"
"Jamaica?"
"No she wants to go"

I've got more, but "How far to the railway station?" and "They still don't fit" really have to wait for the podcast.

In the meantime, 7 or so habits of an ineffective boar:
Procrastination
Confusion
Delusion
Rage against inanimate objects
Rage against governments
Despair
Disorganisation / messiness
Solace through beer
Enlightenment through single malt scotch.
Is that seven? Are these habits or merely states of mind?

Boring Boarking, a librarian...

This blog commences as part of a Web 2.0 course for librarians. If you've stumbled on it by accident you may wish to nick off quick smart, it could be contagious.

I was going to call it BoringLibrarian, but what if the blog outlives my career as a librarian? Boring was bound to have been taken, but fortunately mutated into BoarKing. I'm not a king or a boar, but blogger "Thisdonkey" is not actually a donkey, hard to believe, though he looks a bit like one and can be as stubborn.



I need to find a picture of a king for my profile, then photoshop in a couple of tusks. It'll be so funny, probably.



I seem to remember that some cannibals in days gone by would refer to other humans (the ones in the pot) as "Long pig", so perhaps we are all a bit boar-ish at the taste test level... I wonder if my flesh would make good crackling if I rubbed it with vege oil and salt before roasting? I'll try it next time I'm roasting one of my limbs and I'll let you know.