Quiet Library

I am very familiar with Youtube. I watch videos on the site a few times a week. My favorite channels/users are Permaculture Science, Peak Moment, and the Dervaes family's Path To Freedom.

For something a bit more humorous. Here is a clip from a Japanese game show called Quiet Library. The ending is unforgettable.

Tools

I checked out the toolbar and the Tooling Around blog. The Book Burro sounds promising. Some of the books which I am interested acquiring are out of print and out of my price range. I wonder how much more effective Book Burro is than the behemoth Amazon.com.

I read the top five reasons to get Gmail on the Tooling Around blog. I used to have a Gmail account a few years ago, but I let it atrophy. I already had enough e-mail accounts with enough storage and didn't feel like sending out the e-mail "Here is my new e-mail address."

Lulu

For Thing #18, I glanced at the winners and found Lulu. I had first used Lulu to buy a book earlier this year: After the Crash: An Essay-Novel of the Post-Hydrocarbon Age. I was impressed with how the book looked and felt...the content was pretty good too. So I investigated the Lulu site a bit out of curiosity. Lulu's goal "has been to have 1 million users that sell 10 books instead of 10 authors that sell 1 million books." It would not seem like a financially prudent proposition to pay even the minimum prices to get a book published if a user only plans to sell a few books. But hey, sometimes it is all about getting the word out so to speak.

Heaven Seventeen

Dear Blog,

I have neglected you for so long. I am trying to kick start myself again after the hiatus of Learn and Play assignments. For some reason I have had the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange in my head as of late...hence the title of this very entry.

Regards,
Jared

P.S. So Goggle docs. Heeeeeeere's mine. I cannot foresee how this would help me in my current position (except to win some tech swag). However, I can see how it may come in handy with reading lists and/or finance reports.

P.P.S. Sorry about that guttural sounding moniker of yours. Cheer up, you could of been named Blah.