2020-03-28 18:37
Cabinet of Curiosities, Domenico Remps, 1690sDaily Thoughts 03/28/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory. I am reading about… Read More
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2020-03-27 16:10
Ernst Rudolf, Reading A Book, Unknown DateDaily Thoughts 03/27/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.I did my laundry yesterday. All but one of the laundromats has closed in m… Read More
2020-03-26 12:49
Daily Thoughts 03/26/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Web Bits Libraries Want to Turn Bookmobiles Into Free Wifi Trucks During Coronavirus Lockdownhttps://www.vic… Read More
2020-03-25 16:55
Daily Thoughts 03/25/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books. I am reading about bibliotherapy.I als… Read More
2020-03-24 15:46
Peg for Bookbinding, 5th to 7th CenturyDaily Thoughts 03/24/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I am trying to figure out what to do about the census which starts on… Read More
2020-03-23 19:38
Daily Thoughts 03/23/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books. I am reading about how digital readers… Read More
2020-03-23 01:00
Bottle, Glass, and Pipe, (Violette De Parma), Georges Braque, Paris, 1914Daily Thoughts 03/22/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Ta… Read More
2020-03-21 17:35
Reading A Love Letter, Torii Kiyomasu, 1711Daily Thoughts 03/21/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory. I also read some more of Wh… Read More
2020-03-20 15:04
Daily Thoughts 03/20/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books. I am reading about the differences bet… Read More
2020-03-19 21:57
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe, 1722Daily Thoughts 03/19/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.We are still sheltering in place. I read most of the da… Read More
2020-03-19 00:26
Seated Man Reading A Newspaper, Pablo Picasso, 1912Daily Thoughts 03/18/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.The Mount Vernon Public Library is now closed.We have been… Read More
2020-03-17 19:28
Marguerite Gerard, Lady Reading in an Interior, Between 1795 and 1800Daily Thoughts 03/17/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Talk About W… Read More
2020-03-16 16:28
Woman Reading by George Henry Boughton, Circa 1900Daily Thoughts 03/16/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What We Talk About When We Talk About B… Read More
2020-03-15 16:30
Young Man Writing and Reading from Large Volume at His Left, Dominique Vivant, Before 1825Daily Thoughts 03/15/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some m… Read More
2020-03-14 16:48
Leopold Horowitz - Portret Jadwigi z Zamoyskich Sapieżyny 1882Daily Thoughts 03/14/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory.I ch… Read More
2020-03-13 20:50
A woman writing about memories of places visited, 1850Daily Thoughts 03/13/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory. I am readi… Read More
2020-03-12 19:44
Jakub Husnik, Before 1916Daily Thoughts 03/12/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory on the way to work.I checked the displays and… Read More
2020-03-11 18:33
Louis Welden Hawkens, Solitude, circa 1890Daily Thoughts 03/11/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory. I am reading about the… Read More
2020-03-10 19:05
Daily Thoughts 03/10/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I checked the displays and the gift books.I checked some books in the mezzanine in the biography section.I ch… Read More
2020-03-09 15:27
Daily Thoughts 03/09/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some of The Season of Storms, The Witcher Book 6 by Andrzej Sapkowski last night on Overdrive.Web Bits… Read More
2020-03-08 18:30
American Homes and Gardens, 1905Daily Thoughts 03/08/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I am halfway through reading, The Lady of the Lake, The Witcher Book 5 on Ove… Read More
2020-03-07 15:03
Daily Thoughts 03/07/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some books on horticulture. I have been looking at them online on Hoopla. I looked through… Read More
2020-03-06 21:17
Reading by Lamplight, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1859Daily Thoughts 03/06/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.The library is closed today for sanitization.I read… Read More
2020-03-05 15:28
Thoughts, Marcus Stone, 1880Daily Thoughts 03/05/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.The library is closed today due to a preventative cleanup for the coronavirus.I r… Read More
2020-03-04 20:12
Giovanni Battista Moroni (Painter), Bartolomeo Bonghi (Died 1584), Painted shortly after 1553Daily Thoughts 03/04/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.I also looked over some grant… Read More
2020-03-03 19:05
Daily Thoughts 03/03/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I finished reading Agency by William Gibson. I found it gripping enough to finish by the end of last ni… Read More
2020-03-02 17:16
In March Read the Books You've Always Meant to Read, Works Project Administration, 1941Daily Thoughts 03/02/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Ag… Read More
2020-03-01 17:04
Poster for the Film, The Time Machine from 1960Daily Thoughts 03/01/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Art of Memory. Memory started ou… Read More
2020-02-29 13:50
1919. La guirlande : album mensuel d'art et de litterature. fasc. 5-8, [Paris] : M. Francois Bernouard.Daily Thoughts 02/29/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I star… Read More
2020-02-28 14:35
Daily Thoughts 02/28/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I finished reading Imagined Life A Speculative Scientific Journey Among the Exoplanets In Search of Intellige… Read More
2020-02-27 13:46
Daily Thoughts 02/27/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Imagined Worlds. I am reading about what it might be like for several worlds in&nbs&hell…Read More
2020-02-26 17:55
Daily Thoughts 02/26/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of A World Without Work. I am reading about the limits of education with technology.&n&hell…Read More
2020-02-25 16:46
Daily Thoughts 02/25/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I read some more of A World Without Work. I am reading about how automation creates… Read More
2020-02-24 23:47
Pushkin recites Ode to Liberty at graduation from Lycee - by Ilya Repin (1844-1930)Daily Thoughts 02/24/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Imagin… Read More
2020-02-23 18:45
Reading the Legend, Lily Martin Spencer, 1852Daily Thoughts 02/23/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Imagined Life. I am reading about the… Read More
2020-02-22 20:05
Rhyme and Reason - The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, 1882Daily Thoughts 02/22/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook at the library.I read some more of A World Without Work… Read More
2020-02-21 19:05
Boise's Carnegie Library was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and was selected from among 17 sets of plans submitted by competing architects in 1904. The library moved to larger facilities… Read More
2020-02-20 20:42
Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by Siemens and Halske in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ca.1900Daily Thoughts 02/20/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some mor… Read More
2020-02-19 17:27
Cover of the June 1951 issue of Fantastic Novels magazineDaily Thoughts 02/19/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What Is Chemistry? I am re… Read More
2020-02-19 01:30
Reading, by Yamashita Shintaro, Bridgestone Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1908Daily Thoughts 02/18/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of What Is Chemist… Read More
2020-02-17 19:59
The Writing Room, Hotel La Salle, ChicagoDaily Thoughts 02/17/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of A World Without Work. I am reading about t… Read More
2020-02-16 18:42
Harper's February, Edward Penfeld, 1897Daily Thoughts 02/16/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I started reading The Witcher Saga Book 4: The Tower of Swallows… Read More
2020-02-15 18:20
Daily Thoughts 02/15/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I finished reading Baptism of Fire A Novel of the Witcher by Andrej Sapkowski. It i… Read More
2020-02-14 17:57
Daily Thoughts 02/14/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Baptism of Fire A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. I like that the main c… Read More
2020-02-13 14:15
Daily Thoughts 02/13/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.Web Bits Library of Congress to Receive $10 Million Dollar Gift to Help Upgrade Its Jefferson Buildinghttps://www.washing… Read More
2020-02-12 23:04
Daily Thoughts 02/12/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Time of Contempt. I rather like the intrigue of the story. Andrej Sapkows… Read More
2020-02-11 22:53
Jan Lievens, Old Woman Reading, Before 1674Daily Thoughts 02/11/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Time of Contempt on the way to work. … Read More
2020-02-10 23:50
Giuseppe Crespi, Bookshelves, Circa 1726Daily Thoughts 02/10/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I finished reading Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski. There i… Read More
2020-02-10 06:24
Eugenio Zampighi, Reading the News, Before 1944Daily Thoughts 02/09/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.I also read some more of Blood of Elves. I like how wizards are portr… Read More
2020-02-07 22:54
Daily Thoughts 02/07/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.I read some more of Blood Of Elves. I am enjoying the story so far.I checked the displays and the gift books.I check… Read More
2020-02-06 20:38
Kitagawa Utamaro - Young Woman Reading as Older Woman Writes, January 1806Daily Thoughts 02/06/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Blood of Elves… Read More
2020-02-05 22:52
Lowman and Hanford Co. booksellers store interior, 1st Ave., ca. 1908Daily Thoughts 02/05/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I read a little more… Read More
2020-02-04 22:33
Albert Morris Bagby's New Novel 'Miss Träumerei', 1895Daily Thoughts 02/04/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I finished reading The Element… Read More
2020-02-03 22:42
Why write a letter when postcards say it better, two 1920s women, one writing, one reading, postcards, 1929Daily Thoughts 02/03/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I… Read More
2020-02-02 20:01
The alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, from a 15th century European portrait of Geber, Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166Daily Thoughts 02/02/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this m… Read More
2020-02-01 21:30
The Virginian is a 1914 film based upon the novel The Virginian by Owen Wister, and starring Dustin Farnum as the Virginian. This is a monochrome movie poster for the film.Dai… Read More
2020-01-31 12:18
Daily Thoughts 01/31/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Last night, I read some more of The Periodic Table A Visual Guide to the Elements. I am reading about a… Read More
2020-01-30 13:37
Sebastian Staskopf, Still Life With Books and Bronze Statue, Louvre (by 1657)Daily Thoughts 01/30/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Web BitsKobe's Bookshelfhttps://… Read More
2020-01-29 16:20
Daily Thoughts 01/28/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some of Dead Astronauts. This is hard to describe in some ways. It is very philosophical. … Read More
2020-01-27 23:08
The Poster, Miss Art and Miss Litho, 1896Daily Thoughts 01/27/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Periodic Table which has a short summary on… Read More
2020-01-26 17:42
Lippincotts for April, 1897Daily Thoughts 01/26/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some of Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer yesterday. The writing is… Read More
2020-01-25 22:33
Boise's Carnegie Library was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and was selected from among 17 sets of plans submitted by competing architects in 1904. The library moved to larger facilities… Read More
2020-01-24 18:44
Take along a book Abstract/medium: 1 print : color lithograph ; sheet 53 x 34 cm (poster format), 1910Daily Thoughts 01/24/2020I read some more of The Golden Thread on th… Read More
2020-01-23 13:23
Daily Thoughts 01/23/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Golden Thread. I read about cotton. There is some material on how slavery… Read More
2020-01-22 11:43
Daily Thoughts 01/22/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Golden Thread. I am reading about how monks raised sheep for wool in the middle… Read More
2020-01-21 21:20
Scribner's for March, now ready. Everybody is talking of the house of mirth, by Edith Wharton in Scribner's. Are you reading it?, 1905Daily Thoughts 01/21/2020I checked the library Twitter a… Read More
2020-01-20 19:31
Poster, A Book Is Nothing But a Person Talking Publicly, 1920Daily Thoughts 01/20/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Financially Forward by Alexa… Read More
2020-01-19 19:44
Marbled End Paper From A Book Bound In England in 1847Daily Thoughts 01/19/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Financially Forward last night.&nbs&hell…Read More
2020-01-18 17:17
One of Meridian, Mississippi's public Carnegie libraries, which has now been remodelled into the Meridian Museum of Art.Daily Thoughts 01/18/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook th… Read More
2020-01-17 11:56
Daily Thoughts 01/17/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Wisdom of Frugality. I am reading about how environmentalism ties in with fruga… Read More
2020-01-16 19:53
View of the Library, Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, Susan Alan Dashwood, 1886Daily Thoughts 01/16/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Wisdom o… Read More
2020-01-15 22:34
Daily Thoughts 01/15/2020On the way to work, I read some more of The Wisdom of Frugality. I am reading about when it is appropriate to be extravagant like at weddings or museums or nat… Read More
2020-01-14 15:16
Daily Thoughts 01/14/2020I took a day off from library things to rest.This morning I checked the Twitter and Facebook for the library.I read some more of The Wisdom of Frugality. There… Read More
2020-01-12 20:42
Daily Thoughts 01/12/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of The Wisdom of Frugality. I am reading about why people are not frugal and live beyo… Read More
2020-01-11 17:56
Title: Main Reading Room. View of statue representing Philosophy, by Bela Lyon Pratt, on the column entablature between two alcoves. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington… Read More
2020-01-10 17:37
Daily Thoughts 01/10/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I read some more of The Wisdom of Frugality. I am reading about how frugality can s… Read More
2020-01-09 13:57
Daily Thoughts 01/09/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Web Bits One for the Books: The Unlikely Renaissance of Libraries In The Digital Agehttps://www.theage.com… Read More
2020-01-08 16:54
Paul Klee (German, born Switzerland. 1879–1940) Reading on the Bed (Lektüre auf dem Bett). 1910. Etching. Plate: 5 5/8 x 7" (14.3 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 7/8" (18.6 x 27.7… Read More
2020-01-07 17:03
Daily Thoughts 01/07/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I finished reading The Green New Deal Why Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Econom… Read More
2020-01-06 12:04
Daily Thoughts 01/06/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.Web Bits DHS Monitoring Apparent Hack of Library Program Website.https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/politics/dhs-hack-website… Read More
2020-01-05 22:35
Netsuke of the Sage, Kinkō Carrying a Scroll and Seated on a Carp, 18th Century, Japan Daily Thoughts 01/05/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Last night I… Read More
2020-01-04 14:42
Daily Thoughts 01/04/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.On the way to work, I read some more of The Green New Deal. I am reading about pension funds and social… Read More
2020-01-03 00:38
House of Industry, Men's Reading Room, 712-718 Catharine Street, Philadelphia PA, From Report of the Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor for the Seasons of 18… Read More
2020-01-01 22:35
Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading James McNeill Whistler, Circa 1880-1890Daily Thoughts 01/01/2020I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Last night, I finished reading How… Read More
2019-12-31 21:06
Bamboo Slip Book, (18th Century)Daily Thoughts 12/31/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I spent some time checking books in the mezzanine.I checked the displays and… Read More
2019-12-30 14:54
Other Worlds, Science Stories, December 1951Daily Thoughts 12/30/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of How Science Works. I am reading about a… Read More
2019-12-29 23:27
Reading by William Collingswood Smith, 1830sDaily Thoughts 12/29/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I also read some more of How Science Works. I read about ph… Read More
2019-12-28 21:57
The Complete Science Adventure Books, 1953Daily Thoughts 12/28/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of How Science Works. I am reading about evo… Read More
2019-12-27 12:15
Daily Thoughts 12/27/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read a little bit more of How Science Works. I am reading about biology and genetics.I took a day off… Read More
2019-12-25 19:14
The Musicians Table, Juan Gris, 1914Daily Thoughts 12/25/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of How Science Works. Each description is two page… Read More
2019-12-24 15:05
Daily Thoughts 12/24/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I also read some more of How Science Works The Facts Visually Explained. I am reading about concepts li… Read More
2019-12-23 21:00
City Life, De Vos, Chromolithograph, Issued between 1861 and 1897Daily Thoughts 12/23/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this afternoon.On the way to work, I read some more of Ho… Read More
2019-12-22 19:00
L. Prang & Co's Holiday Publications, Louis John Rhead, 1895Daily Thoughts 12/22/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.I read some more of How Science Works. I am reading… Read More
2019-12-21 15:48
Daily Thoughts 12/21/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of How Science Works. I am reading about solids, liquids and gases and their atomic st… Read More
2019-12-20 11:54
Daily Thoughts 12/20/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I finished reading Behavioral Finance What Everyone Needs to Know by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and John R… Read More
2019-12-19 17:19
Daily Thoughts 12/19/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Behavioral Finance this morning on the way to work. I am reading about decisions ba… Read More
2019-12-19 02:01
Edouard Vuillard, Ker Xavier Roussel Reading, circa 1904Daily Thoughts 12/18/2019I went to the Digital Census Training this morning at the Westchester Library System. There was a brief… Read More
2019-12-17 11:27
Bradley His Book, The Kiss, William Henry Bradley, 1896Daily Thoughts 12/17/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning Read More
2019-12-16 17:33
Daily Thoughts 12/16/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I also did a little bit with keeping track of programming.I have to check the time clock later today.I took a… Read More
2019-12-14 15:29
Hans Eworth, Portrait of Lady Dacre, circa 1555-1558Daily Thoughts 12/14/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.I read some more of Behavioral Finance What Everyone Need… Read More
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