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The medieval leper and his northern heirs por Peter Richards
The Monster of Florence por Douglas Preston
Night Of The Grizzlies por Jack Olsen
Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age (Library of Great Lives, Easton Press) por Andre Maurois
March of Archaeology por C.W. Ceram
Where Mountains Meet the Sea (Alaska Geographic) por Alaska Northwest Publishing
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publicado por setnahkt às 11:10 pm (EST) em Jul 5, 2009
A previous project in the same class involved sythesizing pyradine, and musk is definitely better smelling than that. However, musk also sticks around a lot longer. Natural musk is some sort of cyclic ketone and comes from the scent glands of musk deer; I imagine collecting it is an interesting job.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:54 am (EST) em Jan 29, 2009
I took organic chemistry from a perfume specialist. We made synthetic musk as the final lab project. I've always liked the smell of musk, but it gets old when your clothes, hands, hair, books, and everything else about you smells of it. And I got a lot of funny looks in my other classes.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:23 pm (EST) em Jan 28, 2009
publicado por setnahkt às 7:39 pm (EST) em Jan 28, 2009
The Shackleton I liked most was by Alfred Lansing. It was the first and best. I'm moving slowly in the Leonardo book. I'm only a few chapters in -- reading it at lunch. It's interesting, but a bit more holistic science writing than I'm used to.
The book on the Essex sounds interesting. When I get halfway through my current stack of books-in-waiting, I'll look it up. :) Oy! There are just too many good books. Wait? You drove to Alaska? Recently? That's a long trip in winter.
-Steve
publicado por benjfrank às 10:35 pm (EST) em Jan 14, 2009
My favorites change over time, but science, history, biography, and adventure are always good bets. Heck, I can't even settle on a favorite genre. (I'm reading books on Leonardo da Vinci and baseball now.) Two books that immediately came to mind looking at your interests were "Adrift" and "Endurance". I reread Endurance several times. It had so many dimensions to it: survival, leadership, adversity, positive-thinking, priorities, teamwork, etc.
What are you reading now?
-Steve
publicado por benjfrank às 10:43 pm (EST) em Jan 13, 2009
Well, I was close. London has a surprising number of people with bad teeth; I suspect it's a combination of one of the world's largest per capita sugar consumption, plus national health care that doesn't consider cosmetic reasons for treatment. It could also be American chauvinism; we're so used to perfect teeth that those that are slightly less than perfect seem strange. However, there's a difference between "slightly less than perfect" and "missing".
I did a small amount of geology in eastern Kentucky years ago, and also endulged my Civil War interests by visiting Perryville. Of course, I also stopped at a lot of bookstores.
publicado por setnahkt às 8:37 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
publicado por setnahkt às 8:09 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
Hmmm. Someplace with poor dentistry, someplace with a lot of elderly, someplace with a lot of meth users, or someplace where they play lots of ice hockey?
I think I'll go with Mississippi.
publicado por setnahkt às 8:06 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
You might enjoy The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson. Peter the Great figures prominently in it; it's very long but a good read. Lots of science and history.
I do really enjoy your comments. They are too funny.
Oh. I always get all mushy at compliments. (The emotional mushy, not the decomposition mushy).
And you have caused me to buy a number of books. Which is a bad thing you know. Feeding an addiction. It's my heroin. But, judging by the number of your books you are a junky too.
Well, that is what we're here for. Reading does knit up the ravelled sleeve of care for me. Better than drugs. And less likely to make your teeth fall out.
I guess at least we don't drool on ourselves, slur our speech, or forget to bath for weeks. Well, I guess I am speaking for myself. You don't have a drooling problem, slurred speech or forget to bath do you? If you do, well, stop buying books, it's probably making you drool......
No, not yet at any rate. The psychiatrist thought I was fine. Of course, maybe she's just saying that.
publicado por setnahkt às 6:42 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
Kind of dribs and drabs of dried tissue hanging on. Dermestid beetles would have been ideal, but I didn't have any. Burying in an anthill might have worked as well but then I would have to dig it up again.
When I was in graduate school of sorts one of the students parents let him have a party for all of us at their house. One person got embarrassingly drunk and had to toss some cookies and the closest things was the washer machine. The son of the house had the brilliant idea of putting it thru a wash cycle. Unfortunately chunks don't go thru those little drainage holes.
Yet another reason to always chew your food thoroughly.
You are really being a bad influence on me you know.
It is always pleasant to be appreciated.
publicado por setnahkt às 2:53 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
I was driving the parents around; their idea of a vacation is to go 1000 miles, stop at a WalMart, and exult that it is exactly like what they have at home. THerefore no stopping at interesting places. They have many redeeming features, however.
Guess what I have! ... a gravestone salesmen's kit...
Some people have all the luck, I guess.
So you are rather, ah, twisted also!!!! I noticed people tend to apologize for being interested in things like pictures of dead people. I offer no such apologies....
I don't either; I have plenty of other things to apologize for.
...we both jumped back and screamed when we jostled it and severed monkey heads floated to the top...
That's the nice thing about paleontology; everything has been dead for a long time. However, we did have a collection of modern invertebrates to compare to the fossil ones, and we had to keep adding alcohol to the containers. It later turned out that it wasn't evaporating; one of the night janitors was drinking it. It takes a certain kind of person to drink alcohol out of a jar that contains a preserved sea cucumber, which looks a lot like one of the more intimate internal organs.
We were always on the lookout for dead stuff, it would please our professor so. If I found it before going to class I'd put it in a plastic bag but if I came across it on my way to class on my bike I would just have to carry it in the open. I remember carrying a squirrel by its tail on my bike, it flapping in the apparent wind.
I have done nothing quite that exciting. I did collect roadkill for a while; I wanted to make a costume entirely out of bones. I found that if you dump a dead dog in your washing machine with a lot of bleach the bones come out pretty clean. Don't do it with a load of laundry, however. I eventually gave up on the idea and gave my bone collection to somebody else.
The RTD bought a piece of property west of Denver with the idea of building a new bus facility there; it fell through due to economics, so we rented the site out to various parties while waiting for things to change. Out land people got a call from a neighbor complaining about odor; so they sent the Environmental Unit (me) out. It turned out that the tenant had a contract with Jefferson County to collect roadkill on county highways and take it to the dump. Unfortunately, he had a end-dump semi to do his collecting with, and it wasn't economical to bring it to the landfill until he had a full load. The carcasses were in plastic bags, but that didn't help much in July. At the same site we later turned up crates of buried 105mm recoiless rifle ammunition, which the owner was going to sell for scrap someday. At first, we couldn't tell if it was live or not (all we could see was one end of the shells, and the primer was still intact - no firing pin mark) so we had to call out the Jefferson County bomb squad. It turned out that they were empty shell casings - that particular ammunition was electrically fired so the primer didn't get dented.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:23 am (EST) em Dec 17, 2008
This is getting kind of strange, like we were separated at birth or something. Even where we don't have exactly the same books, we usually have ones that are similar - for example, you have:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1754017
and I have
http://www.librarything.com/work/6425351
...I also went to an old off the radar restored town (really more preserved rather then restored) called, I think, South City and I think it was in Wyoming, Some university was taking care of it...
South Pass City; I've been past there but never stopped. If you find yourself in Central City, Colorado, check out the Thomas House. The family moved to Denver in 1917 and didn't take anything with them, so all inside is exactly the way it was in 1917. (You'd probably also like Central City Historical Society's current exhibit:
http://www.gilpinhistory.org/2008_Death_...
Inspired by a description here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/313401
I once spent all night Halloween in a supposedly haunted cemetery in Central City. Nothing happened.
Another thing to investigate: got to the Recommendations tab, then click on "your tags" on the right side of the page, then pick a tag (like "death"). You get a recommendation list based on what other people have tagged with "death".
publicado por setnahkt às 6:35 pm (EST) em Dec 16, 2008
Hmmm. I read Massie's biography of Peter the Great last year; a pretty interesting guy.
Do you have books like this other than Wisconsin Death Trip??
You might like this one:
http://www.librarything.com/work/32396
Very interesting discussion of human genetics, as illustrated by people with congenital defects. The author mentions a museum in Holland that sounds very similar to the Mutter Museum, and there are quite a few pictures.
You might like
http://www.librarything.com/work/4850008
and other books on criminal forensics; CRC (the same people that put out The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has a lot of them. All pretty expensive, unfortunately. Look for books I've tagged "forensics"
I'm surprised to see you have The White River Badlands, it's pretty obscured. I would guess you must have been to the Badlands National Park.
At one time in the past I was nominally a paleontologist, and of course everybody likes fossils, so I tend to pick up books like that whenever I get the chance. I bought the entire field guide collection of the Kansas Geological Survey when I was in Lawrence in October. And yes, I was at Badlands National Park, but was driving my elderly parents around so I didn't have much chance to wander around. COllecting is illegal in National Parks anyway, and I don't pick up much any more because rocks are heavy.
I noticed that you have the same book I read on the Great Influenza. It is a very good book. I think you would also like The Devil in the Freezer and The Hot Zone. Excellent books and excellent author (can't remember the name). It's about the smallpox virus and the ebola virus respectively. The Hot Zone on ebola is horribly scary. Thank goodness it is rapidly fatal, that is the only thing that keeps it from spreading like wildfire. People don't go far once they're infected.
I've been picking up books on disasters - epidemics, explosions, shipwrecks, and so on. It's peripherally job related because I'm supposed to be one of the emergency coordinators here and I'm therefore interested in how people behave in emergency conditions. I assume I will be running aroound in circles screaming just like everybody elese.
I've read The Hot Zone (from the public library); haven't read The Devil in the Freezer; you might look for books I've tagged "epidemic". I always try to get more than one book on a subject to get different points of view; for the 1918 influenza I've got this one:
http://www.librarything.com/work/107307
and this one
http://www.librarything.com/work/107307
I find Barry is a better writer; Crosby goes into more detail about the search influenza's cause.
I do have an addiction. Before internet I went in bookstores all the time, especially bookstores in museums and used book stores. Thank goodness I don't have to pay full price anymore. But sometimes I just can't help myself.
Yep. I have some pretty good used bookstores nearby, and always haunt them whenever I'm on any sort of trip. Then there's the various mail-order places; I get a lot of catalogs from Edward Hamilton Bookseller, The Scholar's Bookshelf, Daedelus Books, and Labyrinth Books. These are all remainder houses that have bought up unsold books and sell them for half price (or less). I do a lot of "virtual shopping" from catalogs; write up orders that I don't send until I've got the money. By then, half the books have been sold out. Then, of course, there's Amazon....
I ended up buying Wisconsin Death Trip. I think my uncle bought it for my Grandmother 20 years ago but I don't know what happened to it. She grew up in Wisconsin. I'm sure it was much cheaper back then!! Glad you mentioned it. There is something spooky about pictures of dead people from the past. I really like it.
Ah, good. I figured you would. I agree with you on death and dead people, which probably should bother both of us. If I weren't so old, I'd be a Goth for sure, and wander around dressed in black. I don't like the music, though, and it would be too much effort to put on black eyeliner ever morning. Probably get some adverse comments at work, too.
I have a book on the Lusitania that has a few pictures. I wish there was more published. National geographic had a DVD on the Lusitania that showed a lot of them but they didn't publish them in the book they put out. They photographed a lot of the dead because of the logistical problems of distant relatives. They're just spooky. And like time travelers in a way. Old photos of living people can be similar but there is something poignant about death pictures of young people who died before their time.
Just finished a book on the Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes ore carrier that sank in a storm in 1975. One of the crew is lying off the bow of the wreck, but no pictures. The bottom lake water is so cold that there's not enough bacterial action for bodies to float. That's the reason for the line in the Gordon Lightfoot song - "Superior, it's said, never gives up its dead..."
Pictures of the Titanic, with people's clothes and shoes lying on the sea floor, are also pretty creepy. That Titanic is well below the carbonate compensation depth - that far down bones dissolve. The only reason animals with bones or shells can live down there is that they keep adding new material at the same rate it dissolves.
I just got it in the mail today! It is awfully expensive, and of course I haven't read it yet. It is mostly black and white photos of paintings showing garments, but it does have some pictures of real textiles and clothing, some taken from dead peoples burials. Looks quite interesting. The elaborate embroidery is impressive. I can't even begin to imagine the man hours (or more likely women hours) spend to produce these fabrics. It is pretty amazing. I think we tend to think of distant history as being somewhat primitive, but it looks like the clothes of the high and mighty were more sumptuous than anything you could possibly buy today. But it also looks rather uncomfortable. It is an interesting subject. I am glad we can put comfort first today. But I suppose all peasants always put comfort first!
There were lots of "sumptuary laws", that limited certain items of dress to the nobility - so you could tell if somebody was noble just on the basis of dress. Serveants were cheap back then, and wealthy men and women would have lots of people to help. I once went to a costume presentation put on by the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), and a lady demostrator described exactly what was involved in putting on a corset, multiple layers of petticoats, paniers, fathingales, bustles, and all the other paraphenalia. Sleaves were seperate and had to be tied on, something you can't do yourself, and I never realized how flirtatious it could be for a lady to ask a gentleman to tie on her sleave if it "accidentally" came undone.
Men's costume was less rigourous but it still would have been a hastle to wear hose and doublet and have to poke out your ruff with a stick every day to make the pleats. No central heating back then, of course, so a lot of the multiple layers were just to keep warm.
I find research into the "ordinary" parts of historic life just fascinating. History books are full of battles and speaches and such, but seldom does anyone describe just what was involved in things like getting dressed or cooking a meal. It's also interesting that men's clothing tends to change less; if you saw a man wearing clothes from 1908, you probably wouldn't notice until you got close, but a woman in 1908 dress would be obvious from a distance.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:31 am (EST) em Dec 16, 2008
http://www.librarything.com/work/2783981
any good? It's been on my wish list for a while, and I'm also thinking of it as a present for a couple of friends who are costumers.
I passed another bookstore today.
publicado por setnahkt às 6:37 pm (EST) em Dec 15, 2008
I wonder if there's a 12-step program? Or perhaps a book about dealing with the issue? I'll have to see if I can find one.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:53 pm (EST) em Dec 13, 2008
Perhaps the best way for non-cat people to think of cats is not as animal companions but as animated art objects. DaVinci said "Every feline is a masterpiece", which about covers it. You probably wouldn't take your favorite painting backpacking with you either.
Whle you can train cats to do certain things, they have to be things the cat wants to do anyway. You could probably train a cat to help with firewood, which would be the cat yowling loudly until you went and got enough firewood to keep it happy.
I went out for coffee today and unfortunately passed a bookstore.
publicado por setnahkt às 6:46 pm (EST) em Dec 13, 2008
Well, mine is fond of depositing hairballs where I will step on them in the middle of the night. The catbox get composted. Meowing is not much of a problem; with this cat (Gulfrey) it's pretty conversational.
And most cats I've known are pretty arrogant...
I think mine sleeps too much to be arrogant. But in general, yes; the saying is "Dogs have owners; cats have staff".
And you don't hear of cats saving peoples lives. A dog growling at an intruder is a lot scarier than a cat meowing...
Mine is very good at detecting people coming up the sidewalk; his ears perk up, he growls, and then runs under the bed. I figure as long as he acts as the warning system, I'll take care of the intruder deterence stuff with a shotgun.
...And if I was freezing to death a big dog could help keep you warm, but a cat would just scratch you up...
Have to disagree there; there's nothing like a purring cat on your stomach to make you want to stay in bed in the morning. There's also no better alarm clock - something that will take you from stuporous slumber to completely alert more rapidly than anything else I've discovered - than having a cat lick your eyeballs.
I've always wondered what it would be like to have a large cat - a Savanna, or a ocelot or margay. I encountered a bobcat at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago that had been raised from a kitten. It was adept at escaping from its enclosure and startling zoo visitors by rubbing against their legs, which is how I met it. It was disconcerting. We have mountain lions out here but I've never seen one; every once and a while one will take a unsuspecting jogger or a stray three-year-old or a backyard dog.
I don't like small yappy dogs. I think chauwahas (can't spell it at all!!!!!!) look like some one sqeezed there heads too hard and their eyes started popping out...
I have to agree there; it always seems that dog's personality is inversely correlated with their size. Big dogs are usually mellow and even tempered, while small dogs always seem angry. Perhaps it's frustration. Although all the daschunds I've know have been been pretty decent folks.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:31 am (EST) em Dec 12, 2008
I have a cat, who can be left at home without seriously damaging things except books left on the floor. He started out as a minuscule kitten and is now roughly the size, shape, and demeanor of a sofa cushion.
...Usually kennel would refer to a dog enclosure, but if it is some huge spread I guess kennel doesn't conjure up that type of image....
Hundreds of dogs, each with its own doghouse, and separated so they are outside biting distance even when at the end of their leashes.
...but the really bad ones I get rid of...
Only reason I ever lose books is if I loan them to someone and don't get them back or if I accidentally buy two of the same title, which happens often enough to be annoying.
publicado por setnahkt às 9:40 pm (EST) em Dec 11, 2008
No; I assume I should. I have several stacks of unread books right now so I probably shouldn't take on many more. There is, oddly enough, a considerable interest in dog sledding here in Colorado amd there's a large dog ranch (I suppose that would be what you would call a place where you raise sled dogs) a few miles from my house. Do you dog sled in addition to kayaking, which would be most impressive? I have an outbreak of athlete's foot from time to time, which is the only athletic thing I can lay claim to.
I don't rate books at LibraryThing until after I read them so you can tell which ones are waiting to be read. I think there's around 300 or so. Currently reading this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/933610/...
and this
http://www.librarything.com/work/19038/b...
and this
http://www.librarything.com/work/748302/...
publicado por setnahkt às 8:22 pm (EST) em Dec 11, 2008
Right here: http://www.librarything.com/work/886
I found Shackleton admirable in general but didn't like the fact that he killed the dogs and the ship's cat. It would be fun to visit down there sometime. Scott's hut is still down there and my friend who works for Raytheon got to go inside. They also had to re-erect the memorial cross set up for the Scott party, because the old one blew away in a storm. The US was going to bring it up the hill on a helicopter, but the New Zealand contingent insisted that it would be more honorable to carry it up, so everybody from McMurdo took turns doing that.
...I also love In the Heart of the Sea about the sinking of the whaling ship the Essex which Moby Dick was based on....
Read that one but gave it to Dad so it isn't in the library.
...I'm 50 by the way, in case you are afraid to ask....
No kidding? I would have guessed much younger from the pictures. Probably all that paddling around. Then again, I'm a paleontologist so I don't think of things as "old" unless they're at least Jurassic. Or Middle Kingdom if I'm in Egyptology mode.
publicado por setnahkt às 5:27 pm (EST) em Dec 11, 2008
A lot of people seem to have done that, often showing their books in 3/4 view. You can also check from time to time and see if anybody else has downloaded a cover. I wish there was an option to turn on that would say something like "a new cover for your book X has been downloaded" and you could go and see if it were the correct one. Something to suggest for site improvements, I suppose. I had to manually scan about 60% of my covers. This is, by the way, another thing "combining" is good for; if you can properly combine books all the covers that other people have downloaded will show up. It can be annoying; there were a number of times when I went to all the trouble of scanning in a cover only to find that somebody else had done it already when I combined the book.
I hope to move before next fall and might do the covers and assign numbers to my books than. I would like to print off a list of all my books eventually too. I hope there is a printer friendly way to do that eventually.
There's a "print" option under the "list" library view; I've never tried it. There's also an "export" option under "tools", which allows you to export to a .csv file that can then be loaded to a spreadsheet. Never tried that either.
How many books did you have the last time you moved? Or have you stayed put....
Hmmm. It was 1993 and I was living in a house trailer. I expect maybe half what I have now - about 2500-3000 or so but I'm not really sure.
How old are you anyway? You said old but it is all relative you know!! I'm nosy!
57, but with the maturity and sense of responsibility of a 16-year-old. I don't consider it "nosy"; it's taking an interest in me, which I find rather flattering. I'm always delighted to see the "You have a new comment" block turned on when I log into LibraryThing. I see you've aquired some "Helper Badges" for Common Knowledge and Combining. Did you get "Shackleton" and "Lord Shackleton" sorted out?
publicado por setnahkt às 4:39 pm (EST) em Dec 11, 2008
I have a few signed ones, not by anyone famously dead, unfortunately. (Well, unfortunately for me, fortuantely for them). I usually note "signed" in the Comment field.
I noticed you seem to have covers on most or all of your books. Do you take pictures of your covers to get them on the site?
I was so OCD about getting the correct covers that I bought a flat-bed scanner. I had them all at one point, but there was a glitch in LibraryThing where a few were lost; I think I'm missing 5 or so. I'll have to track them down and scan them again. (You can find out where your covers came from and which are missing by Profile>Statistics>Book Covers). For some very large books, I had to use a paint program to piece together partial cover scans, and you can tell:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3224613...
Did you ever use "Cover view" from your Library page? (Or for that matter, from anyone else's Library page?) It can be rather attractive. Supposedly there is a way you can turn all your covers into a mosaic of a picture; check under the Tools tab. I've never tried it but I've some people here who have used it to "mosaicize" their profile photographs.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:30 pm (EST) em Dec 10, 2008
Very slowly and with the aid of a good dictionary. Fortunately, a lot of hieroglyphs are common and repetitive - just about every tomb has some variation of a standard prayer on it, so you can almost memorize that. Similarly, there are pretty standard epithets applied to royalty - "sa ra" (Son of Ra); "nb twy" (Lord of the Two Lands"); "nswt bty" (King of Upper and Lower Egypt) - so you can rattle those off fairly easily. I took the language at University of Chicago, where I was the only geology major in a class full of linguists and archaeologists. It was pretty embarrassing sometimes, as my classmates were usually already versed in several ancient and modern languages while I was still struggling with basic English grammar. However, I got "courtesy Cs".
It is wierd to think that most people who halibut fish bring guns and they usually shoot it in the head before hauling it on board because the big ones are so dangerous when they flop around. People have been killed. They are also known as 'barn doors' in Alaska. They are so wierd. You probably already know this, but incase you don't, they are born like most fish with an eye on each side of its head but eventually both eyes migrate to one side of the head; happens on most bottem feeders that continually swim on one side along the bottom.
The fisherman related that they still catch them with a hook and line which rather suprised me; I had assusmed they were caught with nets. Apparently you set out a whole bunch of baited and bouyed lines and come back later to see how many have a halibut attached.
...I don't need binoculars to see bears from my little kayak ship for one, Mr. luxury liner guy!!!...
Doubtless very true, but on the other hand I didn't have to row the ship.
...Okay, so you made up for it later. The Mendenhall is pretty nice. Did you go up Mount Roberts? If you did did you take the tram part way? I walked (I'm cheap)...
No, we were only in Juneau for one day so I didn't have time to do much. I find cruise ships are nice for reconnaisance; you don't have to worry about where you are going to stay and where you are going to eat, and if you find a place like you can always come back for a more thorough trip later.
publicado por setnahkt às 5:24 pm (EST) em Dec 10, 2008
Ah yes; the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. "Creepy" can mean a number of things for me; the association with diseases and skeletons and such is obvious, as are horror books and movies, but I also use it sometimes when I find the author's philosophy to be - well, creepy. Like this one:
http://www.librarything.com/work/217402/...
Gee, I thought of another issue. Some books are simple reprints, maybe with a new forward but essentially unchanged. But sometimes it is improved/undated. Like "Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures" is a great book and the newer edition has more recent finds included in it....
There's been some debate about that in combining circles; for example, should something like a textbook that has frequent new additions be considered one work or multiple works. The general consensus seems to be that works that are issued annually (like The World Almanac are a different work every year, but works that are just periodically updated (textbooks, for example) are considered single works unless there is a pretty substantial change (a new co-author, for example, or maybe an entirely new author but the same title). Fiction is almost always the same work even if a new edition comes out unless there is a really large amount of additional material (The Norton Critical Editions are an example, because they contain essays, biographies and what-not in addition to the actual text; thus a Norton Critical Edition of War and Peace would be considered a different work from a basic edition). However, an edition of War and Peace that just had a different introduction would be combined with others. Translations are considered the same work, with the exception of translations to ancient languages; for example, the Egyptian hieroglyphic version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a different work from an English or French version.
There seem to be two categories of users at LT; people who want to organize things exactly right, and people who use it as a social networking site. I favor the later; if I wanted to discuss (for example) War and Peace with somebody I wouldn't care if they had read it in English or in Russian, but if I want to talk about the Egyptian version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit I would be looking for people who also read Egyptian rather than people who were interested in children's books.
...I noticed you have a book on the glaciers of Prince William Sound. Have you been there?...
2002 on a cruise ship (Veendam). Probably not like you've seen it, although there's a certain degree of comfort in sitting high above the water being served mocha-lattes while watching the wonders of nature drift by. To make up for that, when I went to Mendenhall Glacier I used the Juneau public bus system; the bus I rode out on had a contingent of people who had just been released from the mental health center, which made for interesting conversations - sometimes with real people. On the way back, though, I talked with a Haida indian halibut fisherman, who provided many interesting details (not surprisingly, I suppose) on how you fish for halibut.
publicado por setnahkt às 3:24 pm (EST) em Dec 10, 2008
Aha. That sounds like your doing your combining from the Author page, which used to be the only way you could do it, and still is the only way you can do books without ISBNs. (Well, not quite, but the other way requires intensive knowledge of HTML programming and/or entering "false" books and then deleting them, and I still haven't figured out how to do either).
Bravo! If you now click on the Zeitgeist tab, then the Helpers link, then the Helpers log link (in yellow, top right) and hunt around for a while you will see things like this:
walton combined The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival by Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival by Sir Douglas Mawson (see work)
A few rules of thumb: it's acceptable to combine different editions as long as they have the same content, but it's considered wrong to combine a full edition and an abridged edition (when I say "accpetable" or "considered wrong" there's no real rules posted anywhere; it comes out of the "Combiners" group.)
If you enter any movies or CDs, put "videorecording" or "sound recording" as part of the title, so that the movie version of (for example) Romeo and Juliet doesn't get combined with the written version or the soundtrack recording.
It's not considered acceptable to combine "multiple" authors; i.e., if you have a book authored by "John Smith and Jack Jones", don't combine Smith and Jones; intead edit your author field on the book page to just be John Smith.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:04 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
Ummm, does that mean something went well or something went poorly or Lord Shackleton got fixed or...?
publicado por setnahkt às 10:02 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
Try clicking the "Search" tab, then search the site (not your own library) for "lord shackleton". See if you get a page that says something like "Ths author has been combined with Ernest Shackleton" and see if you can separate it there. If you can, then you should have a page with "Lord Shackleton" by himself. Add a "Disambiguation Notice" mentioning that the authors should not be combined. In the green column at the right of the screen, there should be instructions for permanently perventing that combination.
...How the heck have you done so many books. Geeze. There is obviously a method to your madness. There is definitely something I'm missing. But, eventually I will figure it out!!! Thanks for your help. More badges for you!!
I'm only doing the easy ones: books where you are listed as the sole owner and which have an ISBN. I set up a custom view that would show the title and author, the ISBN, and the number of members only. Then by clcking on the title I get the book page. On the left column near the bottom (might have to scroll down) is a link to "Editions". If you click that, you get another page that shows "Copies and editions of this book" and "Potential work combinations" with a list of possible combinations below. If you then click on the "combine/separate" link, you get a page listing all the possiblties with check boxes for combining. There's a "combine" button and if you clck that after checking at least two boxes, you get one more page that says (more or less) "Are you sure?" If anybody has entered a disambiguation notice (something like "book a and book b aren't really the same" it will appear.
publicado por setnahkt às 9:49 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
setnahkt combined Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth by Kirk Johnson, Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth by Kirk R. Johnson (see work)
setnahkt combined Preserve It Naturally: A Complete Guide to Food Dehydration by Inc. Excalibur Products, Preserve It Naturally: A Complete Guide to Food Dehydration by Inc. Excalibur Products (see work)
setnahkt combined Prince Consort by Godfrey Scheele, The Prince Consort, man of many facets: The world and the age of Prince Albert by Godfrey Scheele (see work)
setnahkt combined The Print (Life Library of Photography) by the editors of Time-Life Books, The Print by Time-Life Books (see work)
setnahkt combined The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life Vol.1 by Gary B. Nash, The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life, v. 1 by Gary B. Nash, Private Side American Hist 3e V1 by Gary B. Nash (see work)
setnahkt combined The Private Side of American History; Readings in Everyday Life, Since 1865 (Volume II) by Thomas R. Frazier, The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life by Gary B. Nash (see work)
setnahkt combined The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life : Since 1865 (Private Side of American History) by Thomas R. Frazier, The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life by Gary B. Nash, The Private Side of American History; Readings in Everyday Life, Since 1865 (Volume II) (see work)
setnahkt combined The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life. vol 2 by Gary B. Nash, The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life by Thomas R. Frazier (see work)
setnahkt combined The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life by Gary B. Nash, The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life (see work)
setnahkt combined Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China, Quest for Etenity by George Kuwayama (see work)
setnahkt combined Ramesses the Great: Master of the World by William MacQuitty, Ramesses the Great by Random House Value Publishing (see work)
setnahkt combined Reader's digest ideas for your garden: 2 by Robert Dolezal, Reader's digest ideas for your garden by Reader's Digest editors (see work)
setnahkt combined Outdoor Recreation Areas (Home Repair & Improvement Ser.) by Time-Life, Recreational Areas (Home Repair & Improvement Ser.) (see work)
setnahkt combined Restoring Antiques (Art of Woodworking) by Time-Life Books, The Art of Woodworking: Restoring Antiques by Time-Life Books (see work)
setnahkt combined Rich Earth: Alaska's Mineral Industry (Alaska Geographic) by Penny Rennick, Rich Earth: Alaska's Mineral Industry (Alaska Geographic) by Penny Rennick (see work)
setnahkt combined Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease by Stanley L. Robbins, Pathologic Basis of Disease by Stanley L. Robbins (see work)
setnahkt combined Rocks & Fossils, revised and updated by Arthur Busbey III, Robert R. Coenraads, David Root, Rocks & Fossils by Arthur Bresnahan Busbey (see work)
setnahkt combined Rousseau's dog : two great thinkers at war in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds, Rousseau's dog : two great thinkers at war in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds (see work)
setnahkt combined Running the Amazon (The Adventure Library , No 3) by Joe Kane, Running the Amazon by Joe Kane (see work)
setnahkt combined Russian America (Alaska Geographic), Russian America (Alaska Geographic) by leading authorities (see work)
setnahkt combined Words for the Wild : The Sierra Club Trailside Reader by Sierra Club, SC-WORDS FOR WILD (Sierra Club Totebook) by Sierra Club, SC-WORDS FOR WILD (Sierra Club Totebook) by Sierra Club (see work)
setnahkt combined Sea kayaking : a manual for long-distance touring by John Dowd, Sea Kayaking by John Dowd, Sea kayaking : a manual for long-distance touring by John Dowd (see work)
setnahkt combined Sea Kayaking Canada's West Coast by John Ince, Sea Kayaking Canada's West Coast by John Ince (see work)
setnahkt combined Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype by Merry A. Foresta, Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype by Merry A. Foresta (see work)
setnahkt combined Secrets of the dark chamber : the art of the American daguerreotype by Merry A. Foresta, Secrets of the dark chamber : the art of the American daguerreotype by Merry A. Foresta (see work)
setnahkt combined Secrets of the Nest by Joan Dunning, Secrets of the Nest: The Family Life of North American Birds by Joan Dunning (see work)
setnahkt combined Sewing From Square One: Turn Simple Fabric Squares into 20 Projects by Darlene Cahill, Sewing From Square One: Turn Simple Fabric Squares into 20 Projects by Darlene Cahill (see work)
setnahkt combined Shackleton by Roland Huntford, Shackleton by Roland Huntford (see work)
setnahkt combined Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A.; Narrative introduction by Hillary Worsley S, Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley (see work)
setnahkt combined Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley, Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley (see work)
setnahkt combined Shipwreck: A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure by Dave Horner, Shipwreck by Dave Horner (see work)
setnahkt combined Shipwreck: A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure by Dave Horner, Shipwreck: A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure by Dave Horner (see work)
setnahkt combined [No title], Shivitti: A Vision by Ka-tzetnik 135633 (see work)
setnahkt combined Shivitti: A Vision by Eliyah Nike De-Nur, Shivitti: A Vision by Ka-tzetnik 135633 (see work)
setnahkt combined Sister to the Sioux (Second Edition): The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891 by Elaine Goodale Eastman, Sister to the Sioux : the memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-91 by Elaine Goodale Eastman (see work)
setnahkt combined Sitka, and Its Ocean/Island World (Alaska Geographic) by Pat Roppel, Sitka, and its ocean/island world by Patricia Roppel (see work)
setnahkt combined Sleeping Bag Yoga: Stretch! Relax! Energize! For Hikers, Bikers, and Paddlers by Erin Widman, Sleeping Bag Yoga: Stretch! Relax! Energize! For Hikers, Bikers, and Paddlers by Erin Widman (see work)
setnahkt combined The snow people by Marie Herbert, The snow people by Marie Herbert (see work)
setnahkt combined Southeast, Alaska's panhandle (Alaska geographic) by Patricia Roppel, Southeast, Alaska's panhandle (Alaska geographic) by Patricia Roppel (see work)
setnahkt combined The Spice Trail: One Hundred Hot Dishes from India to Indonesia by Sandeep Chatterjee, The Spice Trail: One Hundred Hot Dishes from India to Indonesia by Sandeep Chatterjee (see work)
setnahkt combined The Spice Trail: One Hundred Hot Dishes from India to Indonesia by Sandeep Chatterjee, The spice trail : one hundred hot dishes from India to Indonesia by Sandeep Chatterjee (see work)
setnahkt combined Stained Glass: A Guide to Today's Tiffany Copper Foil Technique by Kay Bain Weiner, Stained Glass: A Guide to Today's Tiffany Copper Foil Technique by Kay Bain Weiner (see work)
setnahkt combined Staining & Varnishing by David Holloway, Staining & Varnishing by Random House Value Publishing (see work)
setnahkt combined STATUS & HEALTH IN PREHIST (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry, No 3) by Mary Lucas Powell, STATUS & HEALTH IN PREHIST (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry, No 3) by Mary Lucas Powell, Status and health in prehistory : a case study of the Moundville Chiefdom by Mary Lucas Powell (see work)
setnahkt combined Steve McCutcheon's Alaska by Alaska Geographic, Steve McCutcheon's Alaska (Alaska Geographic,) by Richard Emanuel (see work)
setnahkt combined The Survival of Jan Little by John Man, The Survival of Jan Little by John Man (see work)
setnahkt combined The survival of Jan Little by John Man, The survival of Jan Little by John Man (see work)
setnahkt combined Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una by Priscilla Russell Kari, Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una by Priscilla Russell Kari (see work)
setnahkt combined Taxidermy Step by Step by Waddy F. McFall, Taxidermy Step by Step by Waddy F. McFall (see work)
setnahkt combined Technique of the Neurologic Examination by William DeMyer, Technique of the Neurologic Examination by William DeMyer (see work)
setnahkt combined Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias, Ten hours until dawn : the true story of heroism and tragedy aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias (see work)
setnahkt combined Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition (Core Texts) by Walter Gratzer, Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition by Walter Gratzer (see work)
setnahkt combined Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition by Walter Gratzer, Terrors of the table : the curious history of nutrition by Walter Gratzer (see work)
setnahkt combined Textbook of Anatomy by W. Henry Hollinshead, Textbook of Anatomy by W. Henry Hollinshead (see work)
setnahkt combined Titanic's last secrets : the further adventures of shadow divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler by Bradford Matsen, Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler by Brad Matsen (see work)
setnahkt combined To the Ends of the Earth: Womens Search for Education in Medicine by Thomas Bonner, To the Ends of the Earth: Womens Search for Education in Medicine by Thomas Bonner (see work)
setnahkt combined Tom Brown's Field guide to nature observation and tracking by Tom Brown, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown (see work)
setnahkt combined Tom Crean An Illustrated Life: Unsung Hero of the Scott & Shackleton Expeditions by Michael Smith, An Unsung Hero : Tom Crean, Antarctic Survivor by Michael Smith (see work)
setnahkt combined Totally Bonsai: A Guide to Growing, Shaping, and Caring for Miniature Trees and Shrubs by Craig Coussins, Totally Bonsai: A Guide to Growing, Shaping, and Caring for Miniature Trees and Shrubs by Craig Coussins (see work)
setnahkt combined A tourist guide to Mount McKinley: The story of "Denali"--"the great one" : mile-by-mile through the Park over Mount McKinley Park Highway (formerly the Denali Highway) : the record of McKinley climbs by Bradford Washburn, A tourist guide to Mount McKinley: The story of "Denali"--"the great one" : mile-by-mile through the Park over Mount McK by Bradford Washburn (see work)
setnahkt combined Toward the Brink, 1785-1787 (Age of the French Revolution, Vol 4) by Claude Manceron, Toward the brink, 1785-1787 by Claude Manceron (see work)
setnahkt combined Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior in the Outdoors (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) by Michael Bane, Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior in the Outdoors (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) by Michael Bane (see work)
setnahkt combined The transplanted : a history of immigrants in urban America by John E. Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America by John Bodnar (see work)
setnahkt combined Travels in West Africa (The Adventure Library , No 10) by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (see work)
setnahkt combined Treasury of Alaskana by Ethel Becker, Treasury of Alaskana by Ethel Becker (see work)
setnahkt combined The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 by Stan Cohen, The tree army : a pictorial history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 by Stan Cohen (see work)
setnahkt combined Tree houses you can actually build by David R. Stiles, Tree Houses You Can Actually Build by David Stiles (see work)
setnahkt combined Triple Divide Peak by Andrew Selters, Triple Divide Peak (High Sierra Hiking Guide) by Andrew Selters (see work)
setnahkt combined True to nature : Christopher Parsons looks back on 25 years of wildlife filming with the BBC Natural History Unit by Christopher Parsons, True to Nature: Christopher Parsons Looks Back on Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Filming With the Bbc Natural History Unit by Christopher Parsons (see work)
setnahkt combined Uncle Ben's 7-Day Rice Diet, The Uncle Bens 7-Day Rice Diet Plus 120 Easy, Low-Calorie Rice Recipes by Uncle Ben's Inc. (see work)
setnahkt combined Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu by Norbert Wu, Under Antarctic ice : the photographs of Norbert Wu by Norbert Wu (see work)
setnahkt combined Understanding wood finishing : how to select and apply the right finish by Bob Flexner, Understanding Wood Finishing: How to Select and Apply the Right Finish by Bob Flexner (see work)
publicado por setnahkt às 9:22 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
So far so good. I'm busy combining your books so there may be things changing as you watch. There were 75 other copies of Shackleton's Boat Journey. Did the Shackleton author page end up the way you wanted?
publicado por setnahkt às 8:42 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
Not to worry; practice has made me good at pretending to be normal.
...I just found something else vexing. I have stuff by Shackleton and when I clicked on it it brought up him on an author site and I saw there was nothing on hms so I filled it out and made an inquiry to the Scott Polar Institute to see if there are any public domain pictures that I could put up. Now I see there is another site with a picture but no information (which I already typed in on another site). I tried combining them but everything is still separate. Do they never merge?? (You seem to be a font of information).
Hmmmm. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. Is it that LibraryThing has two different page for Shackleton as an author? Let me check.
(Later) Aha. That was what was happening; the authors "Ernest Shackleton" and "Ernest Henry Shackleton" were listed as two different people. (LT will not combine authors automatically unless the names are exactly the same. However, you can manually combine authors as well as books (sometimes that's tricky, becaue authors with similar names or even the same name really can be two dfferent people) so I did that. Now all the Shackletons should be on the same page. Unfortunately, the information you entered got lost in the merge because it wasn't with the "dominant" Shackleton. However, if you got to the "Ernest Shackleton" page you should see him, all his aliases, and all his books and you can enter it for good. Bringing in the new "Ernest Henry Shackleton" might have left some of his books uncombined; if you go to his complete list of works, you may see some that are identical but not grouped together. That page will give you an opportunity to combine them. Entering author information or correctly combining authors or book will give you little "helper badges" that appear down at the lower rght corner of your profile.
Your compliments are swelling my head; there are whole lots of people here that know way more than I do.
publicado por setnahkt às 8:09 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
publicado por setnahkt às 5:03 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
OK, I'll do the easy ones. The cache must have been acting up today, because I got the same message four times.
...! You're now several thousand dollars richer because of me!
That would be assuming I ever wanted to sell books, which I don't. BUt I'm still very grateful.
publicado por setnahkt às 4:49 pm (EST) em Dec 9, 2008
Ooops. "Polar" (at least according to BabelFish) French slang meaning (approximately) "mystery story"; perhaps "whodunit" is an English equivalent. As far as I know, LT doesn't know what language tags are in, so there's no way to specify a language (Another one that gives problems here is "roman", which means "novel" in German; I think that's where we get "romance" from).
One thing you can do from the tag page is search for simultaneous tags (Library thing jargon for this is "tagmashes"). For example, searching for "egypt, travel" will search for all books that have "egypt" and "travel" tags (as opposed to "egypt travel" tags). You can use a minus sign to specify tags not to include: "egypt, -fiction" will search for all books that have the "egypt" tag but not the "fiction" tag. So maybe "polar, -novel" might work?
I find combining books kind of fun, but I seldom do it for books I don't actually own. However, I can work through your library and do the obvious ones if you like.
publicado por setnahkt às 7:38 pm (EST) em Dec 8, 2008
By doing it wrong the first time. (Like the time I combined "Horace Walpole" with "Anonymous").
...Some of the problem may very well be lack of the codes...
There are ways to combine books without ISBNs, but it's trickier; I figured you could fix up the ones with the ISBNs first and then move on to the ones without. There's a "Combiners" group with all sorts of interesting advice on combining books, some of which I haven't figured out yet. I try to see if anybody has the rare books first, since it's more interest to know that there's one other person with Common Spiders of Colorado than 33659 others with Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. Combining can get kind of addictive.
On tagging, unfortunately not everybody tags their books or uses the same tags you and I might. Also the tag pages update very slowly; when I look at my own home page, I have 412 books tagged "egypt", but on the tag page for "Egypt" their's only 386 and it's been that way for a long time. LT made some "improvements" a while back to speed things up, and I think that may have been done to speed up common features (like entering books) at the expense of less common ones (like using the tags page).
publicado por setnahkt às 10:45 am (EST) em Dec 8, 2008
1) Click on the “Tags” tab at the top of the page. This will give you a list of all the tags you use, which you can then sort either alphabetically or by frequency.
2) Now find the tag you’re interested in and move the cursor to it. (Don’t click on the tag or you’ll get a list of all the books that you tagged with it).
3) This will open up a little menu below the tag with “edit|tag page|XML” as options.
4) “Edit” allows you to edit the tag “in place”; in other words, you can change every occurrence of the tag “arctic” to “polar” in your library. Very handy for correcting misspellings.
5) “tag page” will open up the page for that tag, with all sorts of information, including the top users of that tag.
6) You can combine and separate tags just like you can combine and separate books. This affects everybody using either tag, so use with caution (I’ve never done it, although I’ve combined and separated a lot of books).
There are other ways to see who’s using a particular tag, probably including many I don’t know about.
publicado por setnahkt às 4:36 pm (EST) em Dec 7, 2008
I think (haven't been on long enough to know for sure) that LibraryThing will automatically combine books only if the title and author are exactly the same. LT also has caching issues - it sometimes takes a long time for things to "catch up".
However, there are a number of ways you can manually combine books, useful if you want your library to match others better.
If your book has the same ISBN as another, LT will offer to combine it. To do this
1) Click on the “Your Library” tab.
2) Sort you library on the “Shared” column by clicking on the column header. First time will sort in descending order; second time in ascending order. If you’ve customized the library display page so the “shared” column isn’t shown, change o a view where it is (you don’t have to sort it, but I think it makes further steps easier).
3) Pick a book you think somebody else might have, and double-click on the title of that book in the “Title” column. (If you single-click, LT will offer to edit the title instead). As an example, take Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole.
4) That will bring you to your personal page for that particular book. On the left side of the page, near the bottom, will be a link to “Editions”. Click that.
5) Now you have an “Editions” page. There will be a “Potential Work Combinations” header below “Copies and Editions of this title” (it might be off the display on the bottom if there’s a lot of editions, but for Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole it’s right in the middle).
6) Below that is a “Combine/separate potentials” link and a list of books that might be the same as yours. Click the “combine/separate potentials” link.
7) Now you have a “Combine potentials” page, with two sets of books – the Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole that 50-odd other people have, and the lonely one that you have. Click on the check boxes to the left for both sets of books, then click the “Combine/separate books” button. You’ll get a “combine works” page, with another button to click, just to make sure. (I’m not going to go further because I don’t want to spoil your fun).
If “None Recommended” appears under “Potential Work Combinations”, probably everything’s already been combined that can be. If there’s nothing but a comment about MARC records, then the book probably doesn’t have an ISBN. (There are ways to combine books without ISBNs, but time for that later; this much should keep you busy for a while). You can also separate incorrectly combined books, which happens every once and a while. Nothing you do combining or separating will change anything on your page for the book except the number of members who have it and things like the potential work covers.
publicado por setnahkt às 4:10 pm (EST) em Dec 7, 2008
Well, I concede defeat in the picture department. What other site?
publicado por setnahkt às 10:29 am (EST) em Dec 7, 2008
Alas, yes. The mental trauma has obviously warped me for life. Maybe even longer.
OK, let's see if I can do this right this time: if you enclose text in these:
<i></i>
it should come out italics.(Had to figure out how to get the <i></i> to appear in the comment).
I liked the old picture better.
publicado por setnahkt às 9:59 pm (EST) em Dec 6, 2008
Well, that's geeks for you - not very romantic but we know how to use technology. As it happens, it was a 6" Alvin Clark refractor, made in the 19th Century, on an equatorial mount. You couldn't quite depress it enough to actually see in any windows, (that's why I said "tried"), but you could see the roof. Alas, I never saw any coeds en deshabille on the roof of Woodward Court in the middle of the night, so I had to settle for astronomy.
publicado por setnahkt às 5:46 pm (EST) em Dec 6, 2008
Yep. IBM 1620, IBM 370, PDP 11, DecSytem 20 and all those other mainframes. I still know how to program an IBM Model 28 Keypunch. The little things that come out of punch cards are "chads".
And the concept of having men and women in the same dorm, even on alternate floors, was as alien as Marvin the Martian. Which, considing the personalities of the guys I went to college with, was probably just as well. I tried to use the telescope on top of the Physics building to look in the girls dorm windows - and I was one of the more normal ones.
publicado por setnahkt às 4:36 pm (EST) em Dec 6, 2008
Not to worry; modern computer stuff is over my head too, and I was a professional FORTRAN programmer for 8 years. Of course, back then the computers were steam-powered, we chipped our own keyboards out of flint, and we had to use real mice.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:26 pm (EST) em Dec 5, 2008
HTML is the language used to make web pages. I know just enough about it to be incompetant; I hope, through study, to work my way up to mediocre but I haven't had much chance to use it.
At any rate, simple HTML commands use a left angle bracket (the mathematic "less than" sign), a command, a right angle bracket, some text, a left angle bracket again, a slash, the same command, and a closing right angle bracket. For example, if you want to put text in italics it's left bracket i right bracket text left bracket slash i right bracket. For bold use a "b" instead of "i".
To insert a picture, it's a little more complicated; you have to specify the size and location. If you want, click on "View" in your browser toolbar, then click "Source" and you'll get a popup window that displays the HTML code for this page (assuming you're using IE; there are certainly way to do it in other browsers but I don't know what they are). That's about all I know; if you have any friends that do web design they can help, or you can look at the source code for profiles with pictures and see how they did it.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:35 pm (EST) em Dec 4, 2008
Lots of people do; either as their "picture" or by embedding HTML code in their profiles.
...Maybe even run a contest for bragging rights on catagories like funny libraries, classic, macabre. etc.
Mine would be rather macabre....
Hmmm. You can do a little of that with tagging, by searching for specific tags; you can, for example, search for everybody who uses the tag "creepy" or "macabre". You can also look for multiple tags, for example "ancient" and "egypt". There was, I think, a contest for heaps of books, but I arrived to late to be in it (I think the prize was a free LibraryThing memebership). I can't stack books in heaps on the floor, because if I do my cat eats them; he seems to have a thing for paperback book covers, perhaps liking the coated paper (I think they use gelatin to make that shiny coating sometimes).
...I have a nicely done fake skeleton propped up on my books. and I happen to own a human skull. And a taxidermied bat... I have a Smilodon fatalis (saber-tooth cat) skull, but it's a resin cast (I had a real one on my desk at Cornell, but I had to return it to the collection when I left.
...I guess my library is victorian. They were somewhat macabre...
I know; all those pictures of people in coffins. You might like the book Wisconsin Death Trip, which is full of stuff like that.
...I did go to Westminster Abby and did a wax rubbing of one of the brass plated graves but don't remember much else...
There's probably a picture on the Web somewhere; let's see if I can find it...ah, here we go - Lady Elizabeth Nightingale:
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/history...
You will probably have a heart attack to hear that in 2005 I hiked 1700 miles of the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail). At one time I had 9 blisters and 2 toe nails falling off...
Aaagh! gasp! choke! collapse! Longest I ever did was 18 miles a Chiracaua National Monument. Used up all my water about halfway and it was pretty grim after that. Great geology, though, and very attractive lizards.
It does sound to me like you've traveled a lot. Went I went to Europe I figured the most expensive thing was the plane flight so I stayed for a couple months.
I really wish I had done that when I was younger. I've always wanted to do a walking tour of the British Isles, but I doubt I'll ever be able to manage it.
...You picture is evasive! Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater...
I think there are laws against showing my picture - something about "displaying grotesque or freakish people in public".
publicado por setnahkt às 2:49 pm (EST) em Dec 4, 2008
publicado por timspalding às 1:13 am (EST) em Dec 4, 2008
Ah well, I'll just have to use my imagination.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:17 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2008
Great balls of fur, that's really impressive. I consider myself adventurous if I camp out for one night. I find the wonders of Nature far more appealing if I sleep in a hotel bed and have a shower every other day. I suspect Nature feels the same way about me. Especially the shower.
...Love High Gate Cemetery outside of London...
Haven't been there but it's on the list. Did you get to Westminster Abbey and see the tomb with the sculpted skeleton rising up and stabbing the deceased with an arrow?
...By the way, I think I'm the one going on and on!!!...
Not so; this is far and away the most interesting conversation I've had since joining LibraryThing.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:09 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2008
Well, I have to admit I already noticed that one when browsng your library. It will go on the "hidden" amazon.com wish list. Not that that I'm embarrassed, but although my parents don't know about LibraryThing they sometimes buy stuff for me off Amazon and I wouldn't want to shock them too much.
Have you traveled extensively??
Not really. In my starving student days I went to see the 1970 solar eclipse in Mexico and the 1972 one in Canada; went to Big Bend in 1986 to see Halley's Comet, 1991 to Egypt, 1991 to Baja California for another eclipse, 1993 to London and Egypt, 1999 to England for another eclipse and then stops in Ireland, Norway, and Holland, 2002 to Alaska for sightseeing, 2003 to Egypt again for the transit of Venus, 2005 to London, 2006 to Egypt for another eclipse. Domestically I think I've been in every state except Florida, Hawaii, North Dakota and Rhode Island, usually to do some sort of geology/history/astronomy trip. Most recently (this October) to Kansas. Magnificent scenery, unfortunately buried under 300 feet of loess. I ended up buying every geology road log the Kansas Geological Survey had, so I'll be prepared next time.
How about yourself? I've been blathering about me for some time, but what little I've heard of your adventures sounds vastly more interesting. Even the foot binding. :)
publicado por setnahkt às 8:36 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2008
Tombeaux de particuliers contemporains de Pepi II by Gustave Jéquier - $294.52
The Ramesseum; The Tomb of Ptah-Hetep by James Edward Quibell - $128.99
The Reign of Thutmose IV by Betsy M. Bryan - $205.00
The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III by Dows Dunham - 398.99
Les pyramides des reines Neit et Apouit by Gustave Jéquier - $967.03
and there's probably a couple dozen more like that. I picked these up in various obscure used bookstores in the US, England, and Egypt, and I don't remember what I paid for them, but I doubt any cost me more than $25.
publicado por setnahkt às 3:47 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2008
Wow. Yes, that's quite a find. I'll have to take your advice and do a little research on my collection; I've got some excavation reports I picked up on sale at the Cairo Museum that might have some value.
...Isn't it wonderful that you can track down books pretty easy!! I've been on a book buying spree since I started putting books on this a few weeks ago. Yikes!...
Yep, me too. The problem is I seen many interesting-sounding books that others have and then want one myself. I had to divide my amazon.com wish list into 72 separate lists to keep it managable.
... Did you go to the Oriental Institute while you were in Chicago?
I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago, majoring in geology. I thought I would take something interesting for my required foreign language and thus took Egyptian; all the classes were taught at the Oriental Institute so I spent a lot of time there. I ended up taking classes from Klaus Baer, Edward Wente, and Janet Johnson. I hear they redid some of the galleries recently, but I haven't been back. I still maintain a membership; the have special discount rates for out-of-towners.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:23 am (EST) em Dec 3, 2008
Somebody told me you don't have to pay property tax in Egypt untl a building s finished, so naturally nobody ever completes contruction. I remember seeing high-rise buildngs where the top floors were still under construction but the bottom floors had obviously been lived in for years.
If I accumulate enough bad karma in this life, I'll probably come back as an Egyptian dog.
publicado por setnahkt às 9:47 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2008
Egyptian men will do that; it's the casual assumption that all Western woman are like what they see in the movies. It also goes along with the casual assumption that all Westerners are rich (admittedly, that's not far from true by Egyptian standards) and thus can afford to buy baskets full of whatever junk the vendors are selling. The government has toned down the vendors somewhat; they are no longer allowed on the front (north) side of the Great Pyramid, for example, and at other monuments (like the Valley of the Kings) they are kept to a little row of booths off to one side. (However, the exit is arranged so you have to pass those booths).
An oncoming train would be worse. But maybe he would have had to pay more attention to his driving and wouldn't have been so inappropriate! I think I might have messed my pants if I was in your position.
I alwsys carry spare underwear in Egypt, for a variety of reasons. :)
publicado por setnahkt às 7:04 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2008
Thanks, it came free with the geek genes.
When I was in Egypt I was traveling independently with a blonde haired male cousin of mine, and I have red hair, so we stuck out like a sore thumb...
Good heavens, that's one of the best and most exciting Egypt stories I've ever heard. My own best story is pale in comparision - I took a taxi ride in Alexandria where the driven decided to beat traffic by turning down a railroad track. With a train coming.
You could probably make a pretty good video game about Egyptian drivers, except you would always die before you got to second level.
publicado por setnahkt às 5:33 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2008
There was a dramatic difference between the 1991 and 1993 visits and the 2003 and 2006 ones. The country got much more conservative. Travelling independently is essentially impossible now; it's not strictly illegal but the government is so concerned about the welfare of tourists (40% of the Egyptian GNP comes from tourism) that they go to extremes to "protect" them. Thus if you try to wander around unattended someone will eventually show up, want to know what you're doing, and "strongly encourage" you to do something else. In 1991 and 1993 I was able to stroll around Saqqara and Abusir by myself; now I probably couldn't do that. You can do it a little at Giza, but the whole Giza plateau is now surrounded by a wall with guard towers.
Egypt made Europe feel just like the U.S. It was a little frustrating at times, but nice to experience someplace non-western. Egypt was always a dream trip, to see the monuments of ancient Egypt. Now my dream trip is Antarctica!! But not just as a tourist on a boat. I want to sea kayak and backpack!!
It's a different place, alright. I admire you tremendously if you travelled around Egypt by yourself. As far as Antarctica goes, if you want to you can probably hook up with Raytheon Polar Services, the contractor that supports US operations down there. I have a friend who works there. Alas, it's not a glamourous as it sounds. McMurdo is apparently like a slightly decrepit college campus and they are extremely strict about allowing you to go off on your own during your free time; there's only one trail you can take and you have to sign in and sign out. OTOH, there's always opportunites for volunteer work; my aquaintance was the supervisor of the heavy equipment shop but found himself working out on the ice shelf and driving a crevasse-locator truck to the South Pole as part of a convoy bringing in supplies too big for air transport. I was told I could probably wangle a job down there if I wanted but I'm getting a little too old for that sort of thing and it would be a hassle to sell or rent my house for the duration of the contract. Hiking and sea kayaking are way beyond me, alas; I describe my outdoor activities as "staggering through nature", and about the only thing I'd be good for in a sea kayak is an anchor. Check that; I'd probably float. Perhaps a bouy.
publicado por setnahkt às 11:18 am (EST) em Dec 2, 2008
I've been to Egypt four times - 1991, 1993, 2003 and 2006 - and if I remember correctly they were not on display in 1991 or 1993. So I'm not sure when they were put back on view but it was after 1993. I've run across a couple of mummies literally coming out of the ground at Saqqara after a sandstorm. When I pointed one out to a Egyptian archaeologist, he said not to worry about it, it was just Late Period. The other one I was a roundish thing, almost buried in sand, that I first thought was a piece of pottery, but turned out to be a skull. I put it back.
publicado por setnahkt às 10:52 pm (EST) em Dec 1, 2008
I've just been back once since they redid the Egyptian section. I understand that one of the mummies was supposed to be haunted, and would sometimes get up in the middle of the night and wander around; maybe that's why they moved it :). I'm glad they've got the tomb of Unasankh restored again; I've seen the actual one in Saqqara.
The Egyptian Government talks now and then about reburying the mummy collection at the Cairo museum, holding that it is undignified for all the great pharaohs to be on display like that. None have complained yet, though.
...There is something really appealling about creepy things!...
Hmmmm. I wonder if we were separated at birth.
publicado por setnahkt às 9:34 pm (EST) em Dec 1, 2008
No; I had no idea. Might be the most valuable book I have; who'd have guessed?
...I didn't take any classes but had a Field Museum membership. Members night once a year was fun....
I was a member too. I spent a lot of time Egyptian section in the basement. There was also a creepy hand left over from a Polynesian cannibal feast, and some unwrapped Peruvian mummies.
...If you find any good books on the history of embalming let me know, it would be up my alley!!....
I have one; try searching my library for books with the tag "death". Can't do it myself while composing a message.
publicado por setnahkt às 8:14 pm (EST) em Dec 1, 2008
Wait a minute; I bought my copy of X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies at the Field Musuem too, and also about 30 years ago. Were you taking an adult education class at the museum, by any chance? That's what I got mine for. I think it was a class on mummies taught by Frank Yurco, and it included a showing of the Boris Karlof film.
...I seem to find a lot of interesting books on paleopathology thru Universities. I also majored in Anthropology in college and spent a lot of time in an ethnozoology lab with dead things!
My interest in dead things is mostly out of general creepiness. However, I've recently aquired a semi-professional connection; I do environmental site assessment work for the local transit district and we're building a new light rail line that might take part of an old cemetery for the right-of-way. I know some of the early embalming fluids were pretty toxic - sometimes up to a pound of arsenic per body - so I've been trying to investigate 19th Century mortuary customs so I know what will be waiting in case we have to start digging up graves. My college major was paleontology; it's easier dealing with things that have been dead since the Ordovician.
...I am wondering what you do, if anything, to actually find your books on your shelves. Do you mark them with numbers?...
I've got them by general categories - Egypt, other ancient civilizations, travel books, geology, fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and so on. I can usually remember roughly where one is. At one point, I organized tham by color - black books on the upper left shelves, trending through violet books, blue books green books, yellow books, orange books, red books and white books on the lower right. It was interesting looking but made finding anything hopeless.
...I need a lot more shelf space and can't really put them in order now because of lack of space...
Me too. I am a pretty mediocre carpenter, so all my shelves, while sturdy enough, don't look very good. Out of a three bedroom house, one entire bedroom is devoted to books, plus two walls of the living room. I've got my eye on the other living room walls and then the study. Then on to the master bedroom, and finally the basement. I figure books are decorative enough - sort of like very thick wallpaper.
publicado por setnahkt às 4:19 pm (EST) em Dec 1, 2008
I was surprised at the value of one book I bought about 30 years ago at the field museum, The atlas of x-rays of the Royal Mummies, with microfilm of the x-rays in a pocket in the back. It cost me about $50 which was a lot of money for a book back then but I really wanted it. I was so surprised to find that it is now considered rare and sells for 200 - 400 dollars. Makes me wonder about some of my other books. I seem to find a lot of interesting books on paleopathology thru Universities. I also majored in Anthropology in college and spent a lot of time in an ethnozoology lab with dead things! Crazy. Anything polar is great. You have a lot of books on dead things!! I wish I could find a book on the "Prince of el Plomo", a Peruvian mummy that I think is the most astonishing mummy. When I was a child I saw what I could swear was a National Geographic with a whole article on him but have never been able to find it since. The child was a sacrifice and he looks like he is asleep and is quite haunting, A time traveler of sorts.
I am wondering what you do, if anything, to actually find your books on your shelves. Do you mark them with numbers? I need a lot more shelf space and can't really put them in order now because of lack of space. And I can never find anything.
publicado por walton às 1:25 am (EST) em Dec 1, 2008
You really do have an interesting library; I especially like the combination of Egypt and geology. I had considered myself fairly well up on Egypt books but you have some I've never even heard of.
Adding books is a chore; once you get them all it's pretty satisfying. It took me about six months. It helped that I was able to get a lot directly from amazonn.com. I got so OCD about it that I bought a scanner to enter covers.
Examining another's library is rather personal; you can obviously tell a lot about somebody by the books they read. I was reluctant to enter some of mine but eventually decided I was too old to be embarrassed any more.
publicado por setnahkt às 8:14 pm (EST) em Nov 30, 2008