Now, who wouldn’t want to buy and live in a surplus 727 jet airliner? In Smyrna Tennessee, no less?

Whoops. Over the last few months, I’ve been enjoying the proximity and collection of the Catonsville Library. It’s right down the street, it’s well lighted, well staffed, and well stocked with current titles. In addition to the books, there’s a large DVD and CD collection available, and I’ve been, uh, sampling the CD collection quite often. Each CD is enclosed with a big plastic anti-theft clip which you have to have the librarians remove for you. As with any well-worn book, some of the CD’s are in less-than-perfect shape, and often the jewelboxes are pretty beat up. Sometimes you have to make an educated guess as to what title is actually inside the case. Why and I telling you this? Please look at the diagram below and try to understand why I would actually check out a Barbra Streisand CD from the library, thinking it was Bob Dylan.

Goodbye, Old Friends. About a year ago, I made a rule about buying any new computer hardware for the house: I wasn’t going to support any Mac with a SCSI hard drive, ADB ports, or lacking at least a USB port. With the recent influx of iMacs in our house, I’ve been looking at the old 8500 on the porch and thinking that it needs to be donated, and I also still have the 7100 here at the office with no purpose in mind. Today I’m going to archive the contents of each, wipe the drives, and get them ready to donate.