Stamp Out (my) Ignorance, Please....

On 6/13/05 9:34 AM, in article , "Conan The
Librarian" wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:

The intriguing and adorable basket-cases who are found rotted or dessicated
under a collapsed stack some two to five years after their last sightings by
the neighbors are given short shrift.

I have nothing to add here, I just wanted to re-read that phrase
again. :-)

(Bill, are you paying attention?)

Well, I *was* paying attention, but then I climbed up to the top shelf to
pull down my copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer- so I could photocopy it for
Cyli, of course- when the whole shelf came down on me! Good thing I had the
edition in my arms, or that shelf would have squished me for certain. Those
sliding dovetails I built it with are strong, but I gotta get it screwed
into the wall better...

p.s. Bill was right.

I already knew that. :-)

Heh.

Bill

William Claspy wrote:

On 6/13/05 9:34 AM, in article , "Conan The
Librarian" wrote:

(Bill, are you paying attention?)

Well, I *was* paying attention, but then I climbed up to the top shelf to
pull down my copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer- so I could photocopy it for
Cyli, of course- when the whole shelf came down on me! Good thing I had the
edition in my arms, or that shelf would have squished me for certain. Those
sliding dovetails I built it with are strong, but I gotta get it screwed
into the wall better...

I worry more about you disappearing under a mound of one-sided
plane-shavings, my librarian, flyfihing, wooddorking brother.

p.s. Bill was right.

I already knew that. :-)

Heh.

I knew you'd understand. :-)


Chuck Vance (BTW, French cleats are really good for attaching
those sorts of things to your wall :-)

Chuck Vance (BTW, French cleats are really good for attaching
those sorts of things to your wall :-)

We now call 'em LIBERTY cleats round here in the red states.

--
Frank Reid
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:57:52 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 6/12/05 10:28 PM, in article ,
"Cyli" wrote:


Thank heavens for modern photocopies, which would let readers like me
see any book they had interest in without doing damage to the
originals.

What?

Puzzled,
Bill

Oh, I meant that they can lock up all the rare books and put out
photocopies into the regular circulation stacks. This will make it
easier to keep the truly rare copies safe, but let someone like me
look at them anyway. Wll, almost look at them. Look at a clone of
them.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:01:27 -0500, wrote:

(snipped)

I think you and John Gierach ought to get together and hire wayno AND
jeff and pay them vast quantities of money to start teaching these
scurrilous types a lesson they'll never forget...

HTH,
R

Only a couple of problems with that. A: I don't care enough. B: I
don't have vast quantities of money.

There's always the other one. Were I to hire an attorney to sue
anyone it'd be to get my pathetic little pension (somewhere around $7
to $20 a month, I believe) dug out of HealthEast up here in MN.
They've been putzing around and putting it off for over a year now.
Luckily I'm mostly after them to annoy them a fraction as much as
working for them (except for the Mounds Park stint) annoyed me. I
don't think they intend to ever pay it. But I don't intend to let it
go, either. It'd pay for my lotto tickets. Every 6 months or so I
email the pension lady who works only one half day every two weeks
about it. She's nice enough. The organization sucks. I mean really
really sucks. Worse than HWMNBN sucked. But more clever than he was.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:16:22 -0500, Cyli
wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:01:27 -0500, wrote:

(snipped)

I think you and John Gierach ought to get together and hire wayno AND
jeff and pay them vast quantities of money to start teaching these
scurrilous types a lesson they'll never forget...

HTH,
R

Only a couple of problems with that.

OK, but let's see what they are...

A: I don't care enough. B: I don't have vast quantities of money.

That's it? Where's "C: It's a silly-assed suggestion propounding the
pursuit of a totally frivolous complaint"? (Well, excepting the paying
vast quantities of money part)

There's always the other one.

Ah, whew...so you do have another problem and you just want to REALLY
expound on the ridiculousness of the idea...

Were I to hire an attorney to sue

Uh-oh...I don't like where this is heading...

anyone it'd be to get my pathetic little pension (somewhere around $7
to $20 a month, I believe) dug out of HealthEast up here in MN.
They've been putzing around and putting it off for over a year now.
Luckily I'm mostly after them to annoy them a fraction as much as
working for them (except for the Mounds Park stint) annoyed me. I
don't think they intend to ever pay it. But I don't intend to let it
go, either. It'd pay for my lotto tickets. Every 6 months or so I
email the pension lady who works only one half day every two weeks
about it.

Oh...yeah, this didn't head where it probably should have...but here we
are...OK, so, it's your position that this company is conspiring to
screw you out of $7 to $20 a month by paying someone 12-13 days a year
to keep you and this money apart...well, you may be familiar with the
old saying about who is soon parted from their money...

She's nice enough. The organization sucks.

Er, the person in charge is nice enough, but the "organization"
sucks...interesting concept.

I mean really really sucks.

Fair enough - I mean really, really interesting concept...

Worse than HWMNBN sucked. But more clever than he was.

Why? Did he conspire to spend an even more disproportionate amount of
time and money to try to keep a few dollars you claimed were yours, too?

Whatever foats your bloat,
R

On 6/14/05 12:16 AM, in article ,
"Cyli" wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:57:52 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 6/12/05 10:28 PM, in article ,
"Cyli" wrote:


Thank heavens for modern photocopies, which would let readers like me
see any book they had interest in without doing damage to the
originals.

What?

Puzzled,
Bill

Oh, I meant that they can lock up all the rare books and put out
photocopies into the regular circulation stacks. This will make it
easier to keep the truly rare copies safe, but let someone like me
look at them anyway. Wll, almost look at them. Look at a clone of
them.

It was the term "photocopy" that puzzled me. I had images of strolling up
to the desk at the British Library, asking for the Lindisfarne Gospels and a
pile of 10p coins for the copy machine.

What is done now makes photocopies look like fish wrappers. For example,
after mentioning the Kelmscott (which, while rare, isn't particularly old),
I dug up our copy of this:

http://www.octavo.com/editions/chkwks/index.html

Which, while nice (very nice, actually), won't be the fix a bibliomaniac is
looking for. (And truly is a *photo* copy, I suppose!) For most of us
though, it'll do. And there are of course online collections of digitized
texts, both free text-only collections (eg. Project Gutenberg) and
subscription based text/image collections (eg. EEBO or NCO).

Bill

On 6/13/05 6:50 PM, in article
, "Conan The Librarian"
wrote:



William Claspy wrote:

On 6/13/05 9:34 AM, in article , "Conan The
Librarian" wrote:

(Bill, are you paying attention?)

Well, I *was* paying attention, but then I climbed up to the top shelf to
pull down my copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer- so I could photocopy it for
Cyli, of course- when the whole shelf came down on me! Good thing I had the
edition in my arms, or that shelf would have squished me for certain. Those
sliding dovetails I built it with are strong, but I gotta get it screwed
into the wall better...

I worry more about you disappearing under a mound of one-sided
plane-shavings

Fortunately, the shavings in my shop actually float *up*! :-)

Chuck Vance (BTW, French cleats are really good for attaching
those sorts of things to your wall :-)

Well, they hold up a gadzillion pounds of iron in the shop, guess they'd
hold my copy of the First Folio as well...

;-)

B
(ps. Putting the final coats of paddylac on my new office table, will send
you pix forthwith.)

William Claspy wrote:
...
What is done now makes photocopies look like fish wrappers. For example,
after mentioning the Kelmscott (which, while rare, isn't particularly old),
I dug up our copy of this:

http://www.octavo.com/editions/chkwks/index.html

Which, while nice (very nice, actually), won't be the fix a bibliomaniac is
looking for. (And truly is a *photo* copy, I suppose!) For most of us
though, it'll do. ...

The library here at Illinois has an elephant folio edition
of Audubon's _Birds of America_ in the rare book collection.
It's one of the rarest of the rare and is treated as such,
but the library had facsimile prints made of the whole book
and displays a different one each week in the main rotunda.
It's worth a trip to the library every week if only to look
at the magnificent copies.

--
Ken Fortenberry

William Claspy wrote:

On 6/13/05 6:50 PM, in article
, "Conan The Librarian"
wrote:

I worry more about you disappearing under a mound of one-sided
plane-shavings

Fortunately, the shavings in my shop actually float *up*! :-)

So you have sweep the shop ceiling?

Chuck Vance (BTW, French cleats are really good for attaching
those sorts of things to your wall :-)

Well, they hold up a gadzillion pounds of iron in the shop, guess they'd
hold my copy of the First Folio as well...

;-)

I dunno ... that might be a close call. ;-)

To be serious for just a moment: I used a modified French cleat
(straight, not beveled) to hang a bookshelf I built for the house we
used to live in. The thing was 6' long by 3' tall. Once I lifted the
shelf into place, it wasn't about to budge (though I think I did feel
the earth shift slightly). I almost didn't bother screwing the back to
the cleats, but figured we might have an earthquake some day.

B
(ps. Putting the final coats of paddylac on my new office table, will send
you pix forthwith.)

Please do. I'm sad to say that my wooddorking has been minimal of
late. I've been too busy tying flies for my NC trip. :-) (Only 93
hours, 32 minutes and 45 seconds until I leave.)


Chuck Vance (but who's counting?)