List #761: A Few Things I like about Rush

List #761: A Few Things I like about Rush (the band, not the Limbaugh)

1. "2112"

2. "Take Off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie, feat. Geddy Lee

3. Geddy plays a Rickenbacker

4. "Limelight," "Spirit of Radio," "Tom Sawyer"

5. They are Canadian

6. They are one of two things in the world for which Ayn Rand had any positive influence (the other is Debate Evidence).

7. The title of the Song "By-Tor and the Snow Dog"

List #691: 5 Things I like about Ice Hockey

List #691: 5 Things I like about Ice Hockey

1. It's played in cold conditions

2. Shooting top shelf

3. Pond hockey

4. Drop passes

5. Cycling the puck in the offensive zone

List #683: Things I like about Facebook

List #683: Things I like or liked about Facebook

1. Pictures and funny status updates

2. Fun random postings and links to videos and articles (with less volume than Twitter)

3. Connections to other Librarian friends that give me ideas

4. Getting comments on things that I've posted

5. Making comments on things that friends have posted

6. The old School "Is...." status format

7. Convenience for reaching friends and family with 'too big to text' and 'not big enough to be worth an e-mail' information.

List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

1. School Counselors (one once told me my fear was invalid and silly, among other things)

2. Bouncers (they are scary)

3. Batman (I am a superstitious and cowardly lot)

4. Doctors (I think they're making it up most of the time)

5. Travelling/Phone Salespersonages (I also pity them)

6. Career Politicians

7. anyone whose job is to worry about "the Bottom Line"

8. Lawyers (most of them)

9. Auto Repairists

10. Coat Checkers (or anyone else that takes my stuff away from me)

11. Consultants/Observers/Quality Control

12. PR personages

13. Traffic Cops

14. Telephone Support

15. anyone that wants me to call them with information

16. Choir Directors

Bonus List: Professions I do Trust

1. Librarians

2. Nurses

3. Dentists

4. Beat Cops

5. Cycle Shop workers

6. Science Teachers

7. Most Scientists (depending on their source of funding)

8. Band Directors

Bonus List: Professions I'm on the fence about trusting

1. Administrators

2. Camp Directors

3. Activists

4. Musicians

List #654: Favorite Legumes

List #654: Favorite Legumes

1. Chickpeas

2. Peanuts

3. Peas

4. Black Beans

5. Cacao

6. Soybeans

7. Lentils

8. Cannellini

9. Great Northern

10. Butter bean

List #646: Favorite Places to get a Sandwich

List #646: Favorite Places to get a Sandwich

1. Isabella's Brick Oven Pizza, Baltimore

2. Krupin's/Morty's Deli (now defunct), D.C.

3. Hogan Brothers, Northfield MN

4. Greg and Kristen's house, Catonsville, MD

5. the catering at professional days at work, usually

List #612: 5 Things I like about Minneapolis

List #612: 5 Things I like about Minneapolis

1. The Metrodome

2. First Ave.

3. The Golden Gophers

4. Skyways

5. State Theater/ Orpheum Theater

List #601: A Half-Dozen Other Things I Like

List #601: A Half-Dozen Other Things I Like

1. Other-Town (in Duluth)

2. The fact that there are 12.1 BILLION hits on Google for the word "other"

3. Those other guys

4. Juliet Burke

5. Other Nic (me, when I play games at FGS)

6. Other Truths, Do Make Say Think

List #576: Things I Like about Mowing the Lawn

List #576: Things I Like about Mowing the Lawn

1. It's a good time to listen to tapes, cds, or mp3s, especially podcasts

2. It's an outdoor activity

3. It makes the yard look nice

4. Fresh-cut grass smell (with just a hint of gasoline)

5. Its exercise

6. You can make cool patterns

Bonust List: A few things I don't like

1. Running out of gas

2. Having to pull more than once to start it (though not as bad as the snowblower!)

3. When it gets jammed up

4. Shoes turn green

List #571: Things I like about My Home

List #571: Things I like about My House (that's actually my Mom's house, but I still consider it Home)

1. The wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom (currently Fish)

2. The back yard and access to Hartley Field

3. Gardens and trees

4. The deck

5. The music corner (even though it's too jammed full of stuff to get to)

6. The fake fireplaces

7. The pictures and plants everywhere

8. The kitchen/diningroom table

9. The rock from the old house

10. My family is there.

Bonus List: 1 thing I don't like

1. That the previous neighbors put up a chainlink fence around their back yard to contain their dog (luckily most of the neighborhood kids on this side of the street have outgrown the night-games phase, because that fence ended the unbroken chain of free back-yards)

List #563: Likes and Dislikes about Fishing

List #563: Likes and Dislikes about Fishing

Likes

1. Hanging out with Family, especially my Grandpa

2. Being on a Lake

3. Being on a Boat

4. Hearing interesting Stories

Dislikes

1. Leeches

2. Other bait

3. Not catching anything

4. Catching things (and having to deal with it)

List #533: Things I Like To Do on Road Trips

List #533: Things I Like To Do on Road Trips

1. Drive Safely

2. Only stop when I need gas

3. Time my waste production to coincide with fuel needs

4. Play Ukulele when I'm not the driver

5. Listen to humorous audio-books

6. Listen to podcasts about nerdy things (if I'm alone)

7. Eat frugally unless stopped for the day

8. Get good gas mileage, and keep track of time/place/amount of fuel purchase

9. Visit friends

10. Get on the road early

11. Have a co-pilot

12. Avoid Toll Roads

13. Use Cruise Control!

14. Have good playlists of music

15. Arrive at home!

List #496: Things I like about "Community"

List #496: Things I like about "Community"

1. Paintball

2. Abed

3. The Dean's thing for Jeff

4. Monkey hitting Chang on the head

5. Annie

6. Troy and Abed's morning show / music

7. Kickpuncher

8. The recent 'flashback' episode with flashbacks to things that weren't in the show

9. Starburns

10. the brief, spot-on, Glee parody

List #494: A Few Things I Like About the Twin Cities

List #494: A Few Things I Like About the Twin Cities (and Metro Area)

1. St. Paul

2. First Ave.

3. The Metrodome (poor thing)

4. The Minnesota Zoo and the Como Zoo

5. Skywalks

6. Professional Baseball and Ice Hockey

7. There's two of them

8. Band trips

9. The Capitol building

10. The River

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 #447: Favorite Kinds of Water

List #447: Favorite Kinds of Water

1. Drinking

2. Lake

3. Sophisticated

4. Fresh

5. Frozen

6. Melted Snow

7. The Fountain at the Pine Palace of the-camp-I-used-to-be-affiliated-with

List #431: 5 People I like (and a reason why), number a-dozen

List #431: 5 People I like (and a reason why), number a-dozen

1. J.P. Zieger: for our brief and torrid comps affair (shhh)

2. J.P. Rigilano: for co-founding the Geography Bee, and injuring my leg

3. J. Bjorkman: for keepin' that dog, and a very special, very angry, stick

4. S. Langdon: for being my best friend when I was younger and remembering my birthday

5. J. McAdams: for Field Hockey (which saves my life)

List #410: Some Things I Like in the Columbia/Ellicott City Area

List #410: Some Things I Like in the Columbia/Ellicott City Area (many of which will relate to food)

1. The Howard County Libraries, Central and East Columbia Branches

2. Maiwand Kabob

3. Victoria Gastro Pub

4. Comics to Astonish

5. Pho Dat Thanh

6. Today's Catch fish market

7. The swimming bridge walk

8. My Neighbors

9. Old Ellicott City in general

10. GCS

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

1. Cucumbers

2. Barley

3. Pumpkin

List #403: A few reasons I like February

List #403: A few reasons I like February

1. It starts off awesome

2. It's the only month with a variable number of days

3. Most of the time it's the only month evenly divisible into weeks.

4. It is in the Winter

5. NFL is over

6. African American History is interesting

7. George Washington is awesome

8. 1 Word: Punxsutawney

9. "Groundhog Day" is a great Bill Murray movie.