List #489: Rules For Poetry (at the end of Poetry Month)

List #489: (my)Rules For Poetry (at the end of Poetry Month)

1. It's all worse if it's not rhymed verse

2. There's no such thing as a bad sestina

3. Form is fun (yay limericks, haiku, sonnets etc.)

4. Cleverness = beauty

5. All interpretations are equally wrong

6. The (word) play's the thing

7. Frederic Ogden Nash = Cafe Nerd Shrine GOD

List #488: Top Ten Reasons Why My Sister, Circa 1995, Thought I Was a Zombie [GUEST LIST]

List #488: "Top Ten Reasons Why My Brother is a Zombie" [GUEST LIST, as written by My Sister, age 10, circa 1995]

1) He thinks I'm from outerspace.

He is always making up stories that he found me in a pod or something.

2) He is really nerdy.

He is always in his room doing homework. He likes math and science and so on.

3) He's crazy

He stays up all night and doesn't sleep the next day.

4) His name is Nic.

Who, but a zombie, would have a name like that?

5) He was really weird friends (except for Laura she's nice)

His best friend is a GIRL.

6) He listens to music all day.

It is so loud you can hear it across the Atlantic Ocean.

7) He plays magic cards.

Watch outm ge might be casting spells on you right now.

8) He always has his walkman in.

He never shares it. I'm convinced he is not listening to music. It probably is a weird midevil contrador he is listenin to.

9) He reads weird stories.

He is always reading about dungeons and dragons, Isn't that weird?

10) He is my brother!

If that doesn't make him a zombie, what will?

List #487: 5 Things that Describe The American-ness of My Good Friend Jason

List #487: 5 Concepts or Traits that Describe The American-ness of My Good Friend Jason

1. Apple Pie

2. (Fantasy) Baseball

3. (Colonial) Williamsburg

4. Ph.D. (almost) in American History

5. New York Yankees

List #486: Computers I have had [Revised]

List #486: (Revised) Computers I have had (including family computers when I lived at home, "*" means I paid for it on my own)

1. Apple IIc (1988-1995)
2. Acer - Pentium, 75mhz, 500 MB hard drive Windows 3.? (1995-1998)
3. *Citon Research - Windows 98, 8 GB hard drive (1998-2004)
4. *HP Media Center - 250 GB hard drive, Windows Media Center (2004-2009), Linux 9.04 (2009-Spring 2010)
5. Dell Laptop (work computer)- (2006- present)

6. *Dell - 1.5 TB harddrive, Windows 7, some other specifications, 2 monitors (fall 2010-present)

7. *Dell netbook - Windows XP (fall 2010- present)

Bonus List: Those Computers' Names (I need to double check these)

3. Total Mass Retain

4. Relayer (windows), Siberian Khatru (linux)

6. Perpetual Change

7. Roundabout

List #485: 1980s Toy Franchises Ranked By My Enjoyment

List #485: 1980s Toy Franchises Ranked By My Enjoyment (not counting primarily creative building toys)

1. G.I. Joe (most versatile figures for imaginary Olympics Events)

2. Transformers

3. He-Man

4. My Little Pony

5. M.A.S.K

6. CareBears and CareBear Cousins

7. GoBots

8. Strawberry Shortcake (dang, they smelled good)

9. Garbage Pail Kids (... Art Spiegelman!)

10. Cabbage Patch Kids

11. honorable Mention: Star Wars, Crystar, Rocklords ('transformer' type toys that turned into rocks...), SeaWees, MicroMachines (all mine were second-hand), Pound Puppies, Rainbow Brite

List #484: 5 Unsolicited and Unrelated Opnions

List #484: 5 Unsolicited and Unrelated Opnions

1. Taxes are good

2. The "Armageddon begins on May 21st, 2011" People in DC are obnoxious

3. People that don't use turn signals should be put in jail

4. Poison/Infect is unfun and unfair in EDH/Commander

5. Reality Television is the television equivalent of a weed

List #483: Scary Things About The Ocean

List #483: Scary Things About The Ocean

1. Multitudes of Venomous Creatures

2. Inconceivable Depths

3. Tsunamis

4. Any other really really big waves

5. Sharks

6. Riptides

7. "Water, Water Everywhere..."

8. Cruise Ships

List #482: Stuff That Wasn't In Washington D.C. Today

List #482: Stuff That Wasn't In Washington D.C. Today (I blame Johh Boehner)

1. Krupin's/Morty's Deli

1a. The pickles at the Deli

2. The Bird Photography exhibit at the NMNH (the website said it was)

3. The Brain exhibit a the NMNH (see #3)

4. Metro stations with all of the escalators working

5. Adequate personal space for viewing the Hope Diamond

List #481: Reasons Why This List Was Late

List #481: Reasons Why This List Was Late

1. Sleeping in for vacation

2. Guitar

3. Ukulele

4. Scrabble

5. Ham, Eggs and Hashbrowns

6. Oregon

7. Walking Outside

8. General forgetfulness

List #480: Reasons why I like Tulips

List #480: Reasons why I like Tulips

1. I like when they are solid vibrant colors

2. I like when they are not frilly

3. I like that the stems are simple and plain

4. Same about the leaves

5. Pella, Iowa.

List #479: Things to Accomplish This Long Weekend

List #479: Things to Accomplish This Long Weekend

1. Hair Cut

2. Kitchen Floor Mopping

3. Bathroom Cleaning

4. Wash My Car

5. Practice Music for Reunion

6. Go Out on the Town

7. Play Outside

List #478: 10 Awesome Things About My Old Friend Ben

List #478: 10 Awesome Memories About My Old Friend Ben

1. He can draw very well

2. He was my friend way back in elementary school

3. We wrote a short story in elementary school that got censored in the school paper for having too many decapitations

4. He could paint Sea-Elf Paladins very well

5. He can skate, run and bike very quickly

6. We used to play a lot of D&D, but rarely by the rules

7. He got me to listen to Ministry

8. His family are very nice people

9. He had lots of lizards and spiders (and other cool toys)

10. I haven't seen him in probably 12 years [not awesome]

List #477: Family Cars

List #477: Family Cars growing up

1. (little red) Chevette

2. Plymouth Horizon (gray)

3. Ford Taurus (light blue)

4. Mercury Sable station Wagon (white)

5. a silver Mini-Van

6. Buick Rendezvous

7. Toyota Corolla, white (me)

List #476: TV Stuff I'm Excited For

List #476: TV Stuff I'm Excited For

1. The Killing

2. Game of Thrones

3. Smallville to finally be done (if I ever get caught up), and to have Booster Gold

4. To see if the David E. Kelley 'Wonder Woman' show is any good

5. That Fringe got picked up for another season.

List #475: 3 Fun(ny) Things that have Happened in the Library

List #475: 3 Fun(ny) Things that have Happened/Happened-to-me in the Library

1. Found a piece of dessicated, half-eaten Salami as a bookmark (in a book that hadn't seen use in many years)

2. Was asked if the library had a subscription to Match.com

3. Found "Origin of Species" 're-shelved' under Fiction.

List #474: Favorite Library Tools

List #474: Favorite Library Tools

1. Bone Folder

2. Double Sided Glue Gun

3. Red Book Cart

4. Barcode Scanner

5. Not the AV stuff.

List #473: Dewey Decimal Classes (in order of favoriteness)

List #473: Dewey Decimal Classes (in order of favoriteness)

1. 300s

2. 100s

3. 700s (almost entirely for 741.5 and the 780s)

4. 000s

5. 900s

6. 400s

7. 600s (641s)

8. 500s

9. 800s (assuming fiction shelved seperately)

10. 200s

List #472: 5 Favorite and 5 Least favorite things about my library

List #472: 5 Favorite and 5 Least favorite things about my library

Favorite

1. Excellent Librarians

2. Solid Graphic Novel Collection

3. Space is used by the students

4. Quality book and e-reference selection overall

5. Lots of windows

Least Favorite

1. Layout of the offices and Desk

2. Temperature/light control

3. Cleanliness, physical-space and loudness-level respect of the children

4. Lack of study-room

5. Windows to nowhere

List #471: Best Things About Being a School Librarian

List #471: Best Things About Being a School Librarian (I ain't no 'media specialist,' fool!) [Library Week]

1. I get to buy aweseome books and resources and convince people to read/use them

1a. And among such resources are Comics and Graphic Novels

2. I get to talk about copyright law

3. I get to learn about the same things the kids are interested in

4. I get to also coach a variety of Hockies.

5. I get to have interesting conversations with interesting kids

6. I get summers off!

List #470: 5 Things Libraries Have Done For Me

List #470: 5 Things Libraries Have Done For Me (Library week)

1. Fed my reading habit from an early age

2. Supplied me with access to nerdy game materials

3. Helped me crush opponents in Speech and Debate

4. Given me gainful employment

5. Supplied me with Buffy DVDs

List #469: Five Favorite Fictional Librarians

List #469: Five Favorite Fictional Librarians

1. Rupert Giles (Buffy)

2. Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)

3. Dewey (Unshelved)

4. Lucien (Sandman)

5. Conan, the Librarian (UHF)

List #468: Favorite Libraries in the World

List #468: Favorite Libraries in the World (that I've actually been to or used)

1. Gould Library, Carleton College

2. Howard County Library, Maryland (currently)

3. Duluth Public Library (when it was actually funded and open at useable times)

4. Suzallo Library, University of Washington (because it's pretty)

5. Upper School Library, GCS (I made this!)

6. Malmo City Library

7. Turku City Library

8. Bangor University Library, Wales (also pretty)

9. Copenhagen City Library (whichever branch I visited)

10. Danish Royal Library (at least to look at)

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

1. My Teams: Wheeler (squirt D, C), Piedmont (Squirt B)

2. Collecting Hockey card stickers to put on my helmet

3. Crying so hard (at age 6) when I got my first penalty (because I was innocent) that I had to go home

4. Being offered a dollar for a goal and 50c for an assist from my grandpa (career lifetime salary <15$)

5. Awesome Fans

6. Hiding one of our players in a locker in the locker room after he punched someone in the handshake

7. Hanging out with friends between games at tournaments (and the little pom-poms the mom's would make)

8. Taking up skiing when it became clear that I wasn't good enough to keep playing on the same team as all of my friends would be on.

Bonus list: Things I don't remember

1. The outcome (Score-wise) of any game or tournament

2. It being un-fun, a waste of time, or a bad experience, even thought I quit

List #466: Things That I Hate That I Love

List #466: Things That I Hate That I Love (at least recently)

1. Whole pizzas

2. Not going to bed at a reasonable hour

3. Free leftovers in the fridge at work (especially since it might have been Chik Fil'A, which is double hate for loving)

4. You (if I were Joan Jett)

List #465: Favorite Nerdy Games

List #465: Favorite Nerdy Games (a semi-revision of List #64)

1. Magic: the Gathering (Commander/EDH)
2. Settlers of Catan
3. Tsuro
4. Hearts
5. Heroclix
6. Apples to Apples
7. Trivial Pursuit, Genus I Edition (not "GenIus"... ugh)
7a: Trivial Pursuit in a Can
8. Regular old Magic: the Gathering
9. Scrabble/ Speed Scrabble /Scrabble Slam
10.Phase 10

List #464: Topics of the Papers that the Seniors Wrote that I am Reading This Year

List #464: Topics of the Papers that the Seniors Wrote that I am Reading This Year

1. Superman as the archetypal American Hero

2. The Value of Physical SFX in Film

3. The CSI Effect

4. The Effect of Social Networking on Education

List #463: Things I Dislike about Baseball

List #463: Things I Dislike about Baseball

(this was an unintentional and accidental revision to bonus list #87)

1. Hitting into Double Plays

2. The Yankees

3. Pitchers' duels (exception: Game 7, 1991 World Series)

4. Home runs

5. Full counts

List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

1. Carleton Reunion 2011

2. Seeing some Twins games (at Camden and Target Field)

3. Game of Thrones TV show

4. "A Dance with Dragons" finally being published

5. Hannah / Daniel J. wedding

6. Disc Golf at LSC with Biscuit

7. 4th of July Pontoon Parade

8. Hanging out at Grandpa's

9. Having a visitor to MN

10. M:tG "Commander" decks

11. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Album and concert

List #461: Pranks I Have Been Involved In

List #461: Pranks I Have Been Involved In (or at least witnessed)

1. Convincing my Mom, Dad and Band Director that I had to drop band to take Biology 2nd semester of senior year or I wouldn't graduate.

2. Rearranging Jal's CDs

3. Freezing a bucket of underwear

4. Victimized far too many times to mention.

List #460: Personal Heroes

List #460: Personal Heroes

1. Rush Limbaugh

2. Michelle Bachmann (the best woman in Minnesota)

3. Samuel Hahnemann

4. Brett Favre

5. Henry Burnett Reese

6. Mark Zuckerberg