Greetings Earthlings, Yes I am a little fascinated with all hype surrounding the 40th anniversary of the moon walk. It seems that the trekkie in me loves the thought of going where no one has gone before, with the handball season on hiatus I have found myself spending a lot of time looking at the online footage of the landing and browsing the NASA website. I do find it a little unbelievable that NASA deleted the original tapes of Armstrong & co walking on the moon, and had to enlist the aid of newsrooms to collect footage in order to have tape ready for the 40th anniversary celebrations - forget about history when you need to save money! And I am also mightily intrigued by the list of artifacts that the Lunar Legacy project wish to collect and preserve if they get the chance. I wonder if any of this will end up on E-bay? Coming back down to earth, many thanks to our obsessive reader for giving us a list of her recommended books, these will be appearing shortly on the blog, once I figure a way to link them to the blog.
Beam me up Scotty
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Shameless Plugs for Manukau Libraries No.2
Kia ora folks,
Seems like an age since I last pointed out how wonderful we are at Manukau Libraries, so I thought why not it must be time for another quick infomercial...
Did you know that...
Seems like an age since I last pointed out how wonderful we are at Manukau Libraries, so I thought why not it must be time for another quick infomercial...
Did you know that...
- Audiobooks are free, yes free! This is fantastic as I love being able to load them on to my ipod and playing them when walking little Millie.
- DVD rentals cost $2 for a week - isn't that great news for the holidays?
Friday, July 10, 2009
Recap of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
What a wonderful and lively discussion we had about Mark Haddon's book.
It was very interesting to see how different our reactions and opinions were towards the book. The way some of us were more sympathetic towards the Mother and how others of us felt more empathy towards the Father (I was definitely in the latter group despite his violence towards poor old Wellington - although if Wellington had been a corgi I may have ended up like Christopher and viewed Father as a murderer)
The differing views regarding Haddon's use of equations and diagrams to illustrate Christopher's thinking. My favourite digression was the explanation of the Monty Hall problem.
Overall I think it was a very readable book despite it's unusual style and it certainly did make me think about the way we are all different and how our perspectives of every day things can be astonishing, for example the way Christopher copes with the catching the train - signs have become such a form of visual noise for me - I have got to the stage I just ignore signs, so I find it amazing that someone would need to read every sign as a coping mechanism, amazing but understandable.
cheers Natalie
P.S. Quick fact today a genius was born a few lunar cycles ago, (okay if you want to be pedantic, last century, but what is a century between friends) kudos goes to who gives me the first correct answer.
It was very interesting to see how different our reactions and opinions were towards the book. The way some of us were more sympathetic towards the Mother and how others of us felt more empathy towards the Father (I was definitely in the latter group despite his violence towards poor old Wellington - although if Wellington had been a corgi I may have ended up like Christopher and viewed Father as a murderer)
The differing views regarding Haddon's use of equations and diagrams to illustrate Christopher's thinking. My favourite digression was the explanation of the Monty Hall problem.
Overall I think it was a very readable book despite it's unusual style and it certainly did make me think about the way we are all different and how our perspectives of every day things can be astonishing, for example the way Christopher copes with the catching the train - signs have become such a form of visual noise for me - I have got to the stage I just ignore signs, so I find it amazing that someone would need to read every sign as a coping mechanism, amazing but understandable.
cheers Natalie
P.S. Quick fact today a genius was born a few lunar cycles ago, (okay if you want to be pedantic, last century, but what is a century between friends) kudos goes to who gives me the first correct answer.
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