Recent Posts Tagged With 'Economy'

• This Isn’t Our Job

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 22:23 in library, Economy, reference, patrons

  We had a middle-aged guy approach the Reference Desk with what we thought was a question or two. It began with a question about how certain aspects of Google Maps work. The man was taking a test that accompanied a job application. The test that he ha...

• @ The Library

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 10:01 in library, Economy, patrons, woeful, @ the library

  Several of my regular readers have expressed concern over the diminishing frequency of my posts over the last few months. Sadly, as our economy has tanked so has a lot of the humor that I was able to glean from our patron’s antics. Business @ t...

• Apocalypse Dow

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 18:13 in investments, Economy, federal

  Today was a spectacularly bad day for the stock market. This Bloomberg story sums it up quite nicely. Sadly, I believe that Wednesday is going to be far worse for that is the day that The Fed is scheduled to release its famous Beige Book report. I...

• What a World

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 22:25 in computer, TV, library, homeless, Economy, bizarre, @ the library

  OK, so I’m in the process of removing a trojan from one of our Internet PCs today and from the financial area behind me I hear a homeless  guy who’s watching the stock market coverage on MSNBC say, “What’s oil doing today?...

• Budget Woes

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 17:45 in internet, news, information, library, homeless, Economy, woeful, information literacy, information poverty

  This morning, I read a blog post over at LibrarianInBlack about a USA Today story regarding library budget cuts. The following quote from someone who should know better gives me pause: Cities are making tough choices, says Chris Hoene, director of p...

• Shameful

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 11:05 in news, blog, charity, Economy, donate, clueless

  I just read a story entitled Gold-Digging Shrews Whine About Banker Mates at Gawker about certain women in New York City. These gals entire existence is based on dating wealthy bankers whether married or not married, it doesn’t matter to them a...

• My Peeps

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 20:30 in library, Economy

  I just what to assure my readers that I will be blogging about library weirdness as soon as there is some library weirdness to blog about. Aside from Special Ed being a phenomenal pain in the ass lately, it seems that even the freakiest of freaks are...

• The Big Bad

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 22:00 in Economy

  I’ve got a bad feeling about the state of the Global economy.       ...

• Credit Default Swaps

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 06:51 in Economy

  If any of you guys missed 60 MInutes last night, there was a great story about how we go into this financial crisis. I highly recommend that you check it out. I don’t see why the CEOs of the companies that devised and promoted (colluded) credit...