View Full Version : Just when you thought the library couldn't be any cooler....
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 11:05 AM
My library now will reserve DVD's for a week long loan,no fee,free,gratis....they even ship booked copy's to my local branch for pick up....anything to undermine Blockbuster's neighborhood corporate monopoly is sweet by me....I have "Curse of the Golden Flower" and "Children of Men" waiting.....the Library may be socialism's greatest singular achievement......(y)
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 11:08 AM
(y)
A good library is a wonderful thing.
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 11:09 AM
the Library may be socialism's greatest singular achievement......(y)
Actually, in America, you have Ben Franklin to thank. He's the one who got it going.
SugarInTheRaw
06-14-2007, 11:20 AM
the Library may be socialism's greatest singular achievement......(y)
Libraries are cool. Socialism sucks.
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 11:26 AM
Actually, in America, you have Ben Franklin to thank. He's the one who got it going.
I knew he was a pinko!....not red,white and blue at all.....my local branch funded by by Carnegie money and designed by the same architect of said New York hall....(y)
http://cac.mcgill.ca/cac/bland/building/pictures/full/2-19.jpg
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 11:30 AM
Our library has all kinds of funky features, hidden and not-hidden.
On one floor, there's actually a bookcase that, if you push it, it swivels and you can go behind it and close yourself in.
On another, there's an audio installation in the stacks so that you're standing there reading or browsing, and suddenly you hear the sound of a page turning overhead, loud. It happens at random intervals, so you never know when it'll happen.
Stuff like that. Cool. (y)
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 11:33 AM
Socialism sucks.
your mothers tit....universal healthcare,subsidized post secondary education,totally weak.....silly rabbit
On one floor, there's actually a bookcase that, if you push it, it swivels and you can go behind it and close yourself in.
I bet that is where the librarian masterbates to all the banned books.
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 11:35 AM
I bet that is where the librarian masterbates to all the banned books.
Well, good luck with that. It's in the first floor browsing section (new materials), about eight yards from one of the guards and also waaaaaaayyy close to the children's department.
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 11:35 AM
Our library has all kinds of funky features, hidden and not-hidden.
On one floor, there's actually a bookcase that, if you push it, it swivels and you can go behind it and close yourself in.
On another, there's an audio installation in the stacks so that you're standing there reading or browsing, and suddenly you hear the sound of a page turning overhead, loud. It happens at random intervals, so you never know when it'll happen.
Stuff like that. Cool. (y)
Neat,I like the homeless guy's birdbathing in the washroom at mine and the East Indian "security" guard who greets me warmly when he's not napping....Microfiche!
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 11:37 AM
Neat,I like the homeless guy's birdbathing in the washroom at mine
Yeah, we get a little bit of that, but not too much, thank God.
Some of the bathroom sinks are art pieces, too. Instead of a sink, per se, it's like a ragged canyon with a drain at the bottom. Very cool.
SugarInTheRaw
06-14-2007, 12:58 PM
your mothers tit....universal healthcare,subsidized post secondary education,totally weak.....silly rabbit
Not so. Who pays for it all? The government does or the insurance companies. Really? Well where does the government and insurance companies get their money?
Whoever isn't a socialist before the age of 20 has no heart; if you are still a socialist at 40, you have no brain.
- Winston Churchill
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 01:07 PM
Not so. Who pays for it all? The government does or the insurance companies. Really? Well where does the government and insurance companies get their money?
Whoever isn't a socialist before the age of 20 has no heart; if you are still a socialist at 40, you have no brain.
- Winston Churchill
You,I and your mother,we all pay into the pot that's the premise,a socialized collective for the betterment of all.....I'm a direct byproduct of the benefits....
"It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
-Spock
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 01:19 PM
I think John Goodman outweighs pretty much everybody else.
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 01:22 PM
I think John Goodman outweighs pretty much everybody else.
^Marlon Brando and Orson Welles just rolled over in their graves....
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 01:23 PM
...oh, they've both lost a lot of weight now.
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 01:29 PM
...oh, they've both lost a lot of weight now.
I have heard that death is the newest thing in fad diets.....
:D
Let me know when they start giving away Twizzlers.
abcdefz
06-14-2007, 01:35 PM
I have heard that death is the newest thing in fad diets.....
:D
Heroin was a trendy diet supplement for a while, but, yeah.
How exactly is it that libraries work anyways? I mean, how can they buy one copy of a book and have hundreds of people read it without publishing companies/authors getting mad?
I love libraries, but I don't see how they get around the interests of those people. Sure, maybe it's not significantly impacting their sales - but how similar is that to people sharing an album online?
MC Moot
06-14-2007, 02:03 PM
How exactly is it that libraries work anyways? I mean, how can they buy one copy of a book and have hundreds of people read it without publishing companies/authors getting mad?
I love libraries, but I don't see how they get around the interests of those people. Sure, maybe it's not significantly impacting their sales - but how similar is that to people sharing an album online?
Well here in the Great White North libraries are fiscally supported by philanthropists as well as municipal, provincial and federal government sources....I think you'd pretty damn hard pressed to find a author or musician who would object to their creative output being dispersed by this method....a lot of publishing and clearing houses actually make material available specifically for library usage.....(y)
MC Moot
10-29-2009, 04:56 PM
Nice haul today… (http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x265/mcmoot/library-1.jpg)(y)
insertnamehere
10-29-2009, 05:15 PM
my library has a wii, a 360 and a ps3
MC Moot
10-29-2009, 05:27 PM
my library has a wii, a 360 and a ps3
hmmmm...I don't know that I like that idea at all...video games in general are crap for the mind and a waste of time,I find...but maybe if seniors were using the wii for fitness or something...
Ty Webb
10-29-2009, 06:55 PM
hmmmm...I don't know that I like that idea at all...video games in general are crap for the mind and a waste of time,I find...but maybe if seniors were using the wii for fitness or something...
oooooh do you not own a TV either smug jackoff.
MC Moot
10-30-2009, 11:28 AM
^I'm a bonafide T.V and pop culture junkie,scruffy...
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