Wednesday, September 26, 2007

"go crazy"

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: go crazy
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become insane
Synonyms: blow a gasket*, blow one's mind*, blow one's stack*, blow one's top*, crack up*, flip one's lid*, flip out, fly off the handle*, freak out*, go ballistic*, go bananas*, go batty*, go berserk*, go bonkers*, go buggy*, go cuckoo*, go daffy*, go haywire*, go kooky*, go loco*, go loony*, go mental, go nuts*, go nutty*, go off, go off one's rocker*, go off the deep end*, go off the wall*, go psycho*, go wacko*, go wacky*, lose control of oneself, lose it*, lose one's cool, lose one's mind, wig out*
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

* = informal or slang

Friday, September 21, 2007

Park(ing) Day 2007

Happy Park(ing) Day!

What? You don't know about this holiday? Go here! It explains a lot that it has originated from San Francisco, but it truly is great idea.

Why PARK(ing)?

More than 70% of most cities' outdoor space is dedicated to the private vehicle while only a fraction of that land is allocated to open space for people. Around the nation, inexpensive curbside parking results in increased traffic, wasted fuel, and more pollution. It’s time to rethink the way streets are used!

A metered parking spot is an inexpensive short-term lease for a 10'x20' plot of land. Imagine what you can do in a space usually dedicated to private vehicle storage. Parking Day began in a single metered parking spot in San Francisco and then spread around the world. People who want more open space, less traffic, and safer streets have joined together.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

I'm back!

It's been a rough ride these past few months. Physically, I still sound like I'm coughing up a lung. I must be reverting to my previous life as a cat. Mentally, I'm going a bit cuckoo. I'm a bit upset, more concerned about how things will happen the next few months.

I will admit openly that the ubiquitous "they" screwed up and gave MY job to someone else. The best part of the sordid affair is that as of Monday October 1st, I will be back in the library! It's not MY job, but it is a very good job - a fantastic opportunity as campus (solo) librarian and instructor at a new (in our area) college. WooHoo!

I will miss my coworkers greatly. My last day is next Friday, and I hopefully will have all my ducks in order (so to speak).

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Please note.....

Please stay tuned for a very important message.......

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Are we too selfish to change?

I'm slowly trying to minimize the footprint me and my family makes on the environment. Green Bay is slow in adopting the environmentally-conscious way of life like my home town of Madison is, but it's getting there. I love the idea of purchasing locally raised meat. We have the vegetable garden, but we need to harvest soon before the threat of frost and get the food canned or frozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma is the next book on my "to - read" list. So I read No Impact Man's blog regularly, and I applaud this "Change the Message" message.

Reposted from
No Impact Man (permission granted).

A hundred years ago, waste was considered immoral. Throwing out something that still worked was just plain wrong.

What changed that? Marketing. Factory owners wanted to keep their production lines churning and factory workers wanted to keep their tummies full. Repetitive consumption seemed like the answer.

Slowly but surely we convinced ourselves that new was better than old. It became ok to throw things out. It became ok to waste. In fact, out with the old and in with the new kept the economic wheels turning. Buying became downright patriotic.

The result of this old messaging is that, now, everybody wants the newest iPod, the biggest SUV, a huge vacation. And no one is going to give these things up voluntarily, right? Wrong.

Because history shows us that acquisitiveness, a twentieth century phenomenon, is not based on selfishness (which presumably would have been present from the Stone Age). Instead, our consumption arose because of newly-learned social norms and values.

So, we can change the message.

For many years, in this country, smoking was trendy. Now it’s not. The message changed. When I was young, people threw their wrappers on the New York streets without a thought. Now people sneer if you drop your trash. The message changed.

Why wouldn’t the same be true of our use of planetary resources? For many years, as a culture, we thought it was great to get more and use more, and that was the message.

People argue that changing course is impossible. You can’t, they say, change human nature. But we don’t have to change human nature.

All we have to do is change the message.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

So cool!

SoundSeen: Audio Slideshow
Stuart Brown describes Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay.

Monday, September 10, 2007

well, duh

Your results:
You are Spider-Man
























Spider-Man
80%
Supergirl
63%
Robin
60%
Superman
55%
Wonder Woman
53%
Green Lantern
50%
Iron Man
50%
Hulk
40%
Catwoman
40%
The Flash
35%
Batman
30%
You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.


Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

RIP

too true

Friday, September 07, 2007

Well....

What a balance one has to make when you get your hopes up and think positively about something to end up not getting it, or it not happening the way you want it. It's ok, really. Just disappointing when you KNOW what clearly should have been.