If I'd wanted schoolin', I woulda gone to school. Oh, wait...

[active_apathy]

And so ends another day of learnifying. Or, rather, another day of icebreaking exercises and autobiographical soliloquies from the teaching staff.

But first, an observation. Today happened to fall between the 13th and 15th of February. Yey. This is the first one in four years for which I've been all by my lonesome, and, well, it came and went like a perfectly normal day. This makes me happy, since it seems to mean that a certain upsetting individual is no longer as upsetting.

And now, on to the day's events.

The learning today consisted of two things:

• The definitions of 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge' are all important, but are hopelessly circular and can get to be thorougly existential. And, well, no-one else can tell the difference anyway.
• Modern libraries are full of electrical things. Electrical things can electrofry you. Getting electrofried is bad. Don't get electrofried.

Also, we have a little training library set up in one of the IT faculty's teaching rooms. It has a smallish collection... which looks fairly big, when compared with the campus library. The campus library is squishytiny; while it's physically bigger than my high school's library, its collection is smaller (!). A goodly bit of its space is devoted to computers, two-thirds of which I can't use.

And I should probably buy a ruler for my cataloguing classes. Problem is, in my experience there's two kinds of rulers - ones that go bendy, and ones that break. Plastic and wooden ones break. Steel ones go bendy. Very bendy. 90° bendy. 90° in two different places bendy. I don't even know how it could've happened bendy.

My rulers don't have distances marked. They have a kind of ruler bodycount.

Comments

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

Maybe your bending unit has an unsatisfied desire and is sleepbending.

Really glad you had a good Day After the 13th of Feb Day. Normally, yes, it's a very very sucky experience, but just sometimes it's full of wonderful chocolately self-realisation and caramel-filled empowerment. Nummy.

And...there was electocution?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

There's electrofrying in the textbook. In fact, there's a drawing of an outline on the floor, with the damaged power lead from an overhead projector running over the top of its foot.

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

But that's stereotyping outlines as clumsy and ignorant of the laws of electicity!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I think they mean to suggest that the outline once had a person inside it.

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

...this completely changes every crime show I have ever seen. I thought Grissom and co on CSI were actually investigating some inner-city chalk-outline gang war and just never mentioning it.