Interlibrary Loan of the day

How to Discipline With Love (From Crib to College) seems to be a book about disciplining with love. In it, the author goes on at length about how disciplining with love is a good idea, and gives various techniques that might be useful if you decide that you'd like to try disciplining with love. There isn't anything in there about disciplining with hatred, or even a section on disciplining with ambivalence. There are lots of sections about disciplining with love though, so if that's your thing, you might want to check it out.

Interlibrary Loan of the day

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you probably have noticed that Captain ILL has no use for evil, except as a place to plant his boot. It should come as no surprise then, that titles like The Beautiful Side of Evil get him all riled up. Sure, evil can be beautiful; there have been many times that a sinister femme fatale has attempted to seduce Captain ILL (they are usually easy to spot since they invariably carry a cigarette holder and speak with a foreign accent). But evil shouldn't be glamourized; especially since most evil-doers are so ugly that they have to wear a mask even in their secret identity. Evil was put on this planet for one purpose and one purpose only: to be booted!

Interlibrary Loan of the Friday

Captain ILL was discussing this title, Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid, with Sergeant ILL before the book even arrived. She posed an interesting question which left the Captain a bit stumped: how do you know if you're stupid? Everyone knows that IQ tests are biased against mutants and other minorities, so testing doesn't help. Of course everyone is always telling Captain ILL what an idiot he is, but they're all morons so their opinion hardly counts. The Captain does know how to read, and can do enough arithmetic to pay the bill in a restaurant, though he sometimes has to remove his shoes and socks to have enough digits to count on to figure out the tip. He's never embarrassed by this though, since there are always several other guys doing the same thing. So what makes a person stupid? Captain ILL doesn't know, and he wasn't able to glean any clues from this book since he erred on the side of caution and didn't open it.

Interlibrary Loan of the day

Mink is one of those manga books that starts in the back and ends in the front. If that weren't confusing enough, you also have to read each page from right to left in order to avoid becoming hopelessly confused. Captain ILL became pretty confused anyway even though there are lots of pictures. He's going to assume that the confusion is a result of his not being a pre-teen girl, and not because of some mental deficiency on his part. Here's what the back (front) cover has to say: "When Mink accidentally picks up a mysterious CD from the future, shs upgrades into a virtual pop idol version of herself! Discovered as the next "it" girl, she's got the Cyber World at her feet. However, she can't blow her cover - or else she'll be deleted!" Is Captain ILL the only one who finds this incomprehensible?

Interlibrary Loan of the day

Audacious: Ivy's Story is a tragic tale in the Brides of Wildcat County series. The North Olympic Library System's barcode is obscuring the back cover summary, so Captain ILL will try to fill in the pieces. The young heroine, Ivy Nesbitt, has had her reputation shattered so she decides to go to California. Here she meets a fellow with the unlikely name of Justus Calhoun. Justus Calhoun is apparently a dashing young man, but he's no Jamie Rayburne, Ivy's first love and the man who ruined her reputation in the first place, who has apparently come to California as well. "How can Ivy choose between her old love and her new?" Unfortunately, the answer must be underneath the barcode, so let's just say she dumps them both, puts on a costume, and becomes a superheroine. Why don't all stories have a happy ending like that?

Interlibrary Loan of the day

Magical Melons is the ILL of today. Captain ILL was so offended by this title, that he couldn't bring himself to put the cover image up, or even look at it. This sort of degrading nomenclature infuriates the Captain, and he can't imagine why Ms. Brink, the author, would write such filth. Here are a few scandalous quotes from the back page: "The high-spirited Caddie is back with her lively siblings for some amusing escapades." and "You'll hear of ... a poor girl revealing a surprising talent" and finally "Magical Melons is sure to capture your attention". Unacceptable! To top it all off is an endorsement from a notorious literary magazine:

"The writing is fresh and the homely happenings ring true ..."
-The New Yorker

Don't read this book, and to be safe, don't read the New Yorker either!

A New Era ...

Now that all this 20 for 2.0 business is over with (thanks to Bowlingwidow for helping me out with the last few assignments), it's time for me to face the facts and acknowledge that this really isn't Joe's Blog anymore. Somewhere along the line, Captain ILL grabbed the reins and ran with them, and all I had to do was sit back and enjoy the ride. So this is now officially Captain ILL's blog, as it always has been. I will continue to serve as the Captain's editor and spokesman, but all fiscal, administrative, and creative responsibilities will be in the Captain's hands.

Ciao!

Joe

# 20 Relax & speglar (färdigställande)

Jag lyckades göra # 20 och kan se hur det skulle komma i praktiskt för vissa människor.

# 19 Peli

Olen onnistunut, # 19 ja voi nähdä, miten se on kätevää, että jotkut ihmiset.

# 18 Kart og Geotagging

Jeg klarte å gjøre # 18 og kan se hvordan den ville komme i nyttig for noen mennesker.