Steve, MAKIF'AT writes: “Books are catnip – or porn, if you want to be vulgar about it - to me, and if they’re in plain sight, well, I’m going to be looking at them. I’m also gonna hightail it out after the meeting and look up as many of the titles as I can remember to see if they should go on my wishlist. I’m a bibliophile, and that’s what we do.”
I relate deeply. Thank you, Signore Eco. In another life, I would have loved to be a librarian. When Margaret retired from her position as the SFI head librarian, I asked her if I could be considered for the post. She reminded me politely that I don't have a library science degree. The more unfortunate reason, as far as I am concerned, is that I simply don't have the temperament for it. I am hot-blooded through and through. A few years ago the downtown branch of the Santa Fe public library notified me to return a copy of Richard Hamming's 'Numerical Methods', a really nice hard-cover Springer copy. I did and then waited for a day to check it back out again, but alas it was gone, and not just checked out by another patron. The entire math section disappeared! I went to the desk and asked about the book. The math section was boxed up and sent to auction. They assured me that they were to get new books soon. I asked for another copy of the book and they were sad to inform me that it was too expensive for them to replace. One month later, I returned to find that the math books had been replaced by books about mathematicians. Surely they were just ignorant, us wizards read such esoteric tomes and they cannot be responsible for knowing what it is we want or need. I walked up to the checkout desk and asked if they were hiring for a curation position, and they again sadly informed me that they were not. I haven't returned since. Please, make no mistake, Alexandria is burning. As far as Go documentaries are concerned, have you checked out 'The Surrounding Game'🀀? A co-director of the film, Cole Pruitt, was finishing up a post-doc at LANL when he and Will completed the film. Cole would join us for the Saturday Santa Fe go club meetup at St. John's to play and he was a pleasure to learn from (~3 dan?). 🀀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrounding_Game -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
