Übermetacool

What if my lifetime membership to LibraryThing isn't. Not that I am thinking of my own end. But can a web site, or anything else for that matter, really promise a "lifetime?" Is there a will that bequeaths mastership of the web site should whoever it is that is in charge should, well, pass, retire, or even just quit. I mean, doesn't everything end at some point? Do you Dear Reader really believe that the lifetime guarantee on the Shamwow really lasts that long? I have put a lot of time and effort into cataloging my books on LibraryThing. Probably too much. (And there is more to do.) I needed a backup plan. It wasn't too hard to conceive. Or to carry out. In the tools section of LibraryThing I saw an option to export records. Ooooh! Yummy. I exported and saved my whole catalog as an Excel spreadsheet. But that would not be enough. Nosirreebobcattail. I opened FileMaker. You can already see where this is going, can't you Dearest of Dear Readers? I created a template for my books. Library of Congress Call Number. Title. Author (last name, first name). Publication Info. Date. Tags. Notes. Enough. For now at least. Then I imported the metadata from the spreadsheet that I had generated from the web site, into FileMaker. My mouth is watering a bit. This may have been the geekiest thing I have ever done on my own. OK. OK. It was the geekiest thing I have ever done. Hands down. No "may have been" about it.

Oh bother!

Today's tasty LC morsel is G9930. I love it. I love it. I love it! Who wouldn't swoon for this seldom-used and little-known call number. More fun than a barrel of monkeys armed with super-soakers on a hot summer day. I have used this class number thrice. As of this writing. The first was a few weeks, maybe months ago. The library acquired a replica of the "map" used in the movie Time Bandits. What is one to do with a subject heading of "Time travel-subfield-delimiter-v-maps?" Well, I am waiting. Give up Dear Reader? Do you? The answer is G9930. The number used for maps of imaginary places. I had a little extra time on my hands last week and went to a map drawer in the map collection. In the corner. At the bottom. I grabbed two maps to catalog. Sweet. Narnia and Middle Earth. So if you ever want to have some fun Dear Reader, just do a call number search in any library that uses Library of Congress classification. That number again is G9930. So you don't forget, call before midnight yesterday. Oh, how I long to catalog that which is pictured here. Lame wrap-up of (to? for?) the post. I know. Oh well. Oh bother.

BOOM!

Or rather BOOM!!! Super Bowl Sunday. But football seems irrelevant. I prepared a couple recipes from the New York Times dining section. I had to. Our entree shall be, is, something called Bacon Explosion. For dessert, Jelly Donut Pudding. That is all I'll say or write. I'll let the pictures do the talking.