Good Thursday

I'm not fully adjusted to working Thursday evenings yet; it still feels strange to be lounging around the house after Sparky leaves for school. [I typed "work" instead of school; Freudian slip? He's getting tall enough to look like he should be headed off to work...well, some days school is work, isn't it?]

But I'm getting some things done, online, that have been hanging around for awhile. And I'm going to work on some 'work' stuff as soon as I finish this. At least, that's the plan.

I'll probably also go hang out with the guinea pigs. I haven't updated here lately, but Cinnamon continues to hang on: he's blind on the right side as well as lame and bent so the right eye points straight down at the ground when he walks. His left eye has developed a cataract and is slowly filming over. Eating is challenging, and drinking is extraordinarily messy: he gets his front half totally soaked whenever he tries to drink. Other than that, he seems perfectly healthy. Of course, Buddy remains robust and scatter-shot as ever. One of them keeps sneezing this morning.

I think Cinnamon is standing in as a reminder of my sister and my mom.

And on that cheerful note, here are some words for you:

Newly 'Wrested:

pixie
v. to practice sabotage as an expression of environmental politics.

Note: [The article cited in the Oct. 2004 citation says, “The Earth Liberation Front initial ELF led to the use of the term ‘elf’ and then to ‘pixie-ing.’”] Pixieing can range from mischievous to criminal acts, including occupying a site, crippling machinery, or removing survey markers.

'Spy Word:

well-booked
adj. Having access to a substantial number or a wide variety of books.

Citation: Bill McCoy, the general manager of Adobe's e-publishing business, says: "Some of us have thousands of books at home, can walk to wonderful big-box bookstores and well-stocked libraries and can get Amazon.com to deliver next day. The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will be not on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books." It is these underbooked — students in Mali, scientists in Kazakhstan, elderly people in Peru — whose lives will be transformed when even the simplest unadorned version of the universal library is placed in their hands.
—Kevin Kelly, "Scan This Book," The New York Times, May 14, 2006 ail

This quote makes me reconsider the whole digital archive thing (hey, it's a huge topic in Library Lit).

But, please, no pixie-ing on Kimsquit's patch.