A very astute man once pointed out that “2 in 1” is a…ahem…bogus term, as 1 cannot hold 2; that’s why 2 was created. It’s hard to argue with that impeccable logic, but at BPL, we’ve been in the lab, feverishly attempting to concoct a way to overcome the reasonable-yet-constricting laws of oneness. After multiple … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Internet
If You Wanna Go Fast (Online), Come to the Library
Aside from playing stupid, time-wasting Flash games, my most vivid early memories of the Internet involve a lot of waiting. Waiting for the static-y, digital donkey-sounding tones of dial-up to finish serenading me so I would finally be connected to AOL. Waiting half a day for a bootleg live blink-182 album to download on Napster. Waiting … Continue reading
Avoiding Spoilers on an Internet That is Dark and Full of Them
As much as we love the Internet for its bountiful supply of useful information, soothing animal content, and general time-wasting enabling, lately, especially for fans of Game of Thrones and the Marvel Cinematic Universe who are tardy to their respective new content parties, it’s been a cruel, dangerous heckscape. Every time you fire up a … Continue reading
Use Your Library Card to Take Technology Home
If you’ve watched TV lately, you’ve probably caught a series of commercials in which a family is comically struggling to survive without access to the internet. While the commercials’ solution to an internet-less existence is to buy their product, BPL is offering a better, free-er means of bringing the internet to you. We’re proud to … Continue reading
Don’t Believe Everything That You Kinda Read as You Scroll
Your Facebook newsfeed: home of misleadingly flattering status updates, babies sporting clothing displaying how many months they’ve been alive, food that is apparently too remarkable to eat without first creating a photographic record of its existence, cute animal videos, pithy political memes, 31 BuzzFeed Lists You’ll Allow to Steal Five Minutes of Your Life Despite … Continue reading
Do You Even Google, Bro?
As tech-competent as I like to believe I am, the list of things I don’t know is likely shamefully longer than I care to admit or even realize. I tend to count Google as something with which my familiarity is solid, but last night, I discovered some things that revealed Google and I aren’t as … Continue reading
Reference After Dark
A few months ago, I regaled you with this tale of how a plucky library staff defied impossible odds to valiantly serve its patrons during a harrowing Internet outage. Because the universe is cruel and lacks both memory and a sense of justice, history repeated itself earlier this week, only this time, it knocked things … Continue reading
I Want it All (But Thankfully Don’t Need it)
I want all the books. That statement is a little misleading. I don’t want all the books for me personally; I want them for the library. And I don’t really want all the books; these books don’t interest me, except for their comedic value. I guess what I mean is, I want several good books … Continue reading
Down But Not Out
On Tuesday this past week, the unthinkable happened here in library land. No, they didn’t change the Dewey Decimal System; our Internet went down, which was almost as traumatic. For around five grueling, archaic hours, we were forced to operate independent of all the magic powers we’re accustomed to being afforded by the Web. It … Continue reading
