Laurabelle’s Blog

The Oklahoma state Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped will have to close if its budget is cut by 20% as has been propsed by lawmakers. This really distresses me, because this kind of library provides a necessary service to people who cannot read print books, either because they cannot see them or because [...]

The title of this post is blatantly stolen from an email sent to me yesterday by my friend Alita, who apparently can't decide what her web page is going to be about. Last fall it was about squirrels; last week it was about something else, and now it seems to be about German history, except [...]

This morning on the bus I took out my cell phone, because I was bored, and started to play poker. On the first deal, I was dealt a perfect full house. I quit the game immediately, because I knew it would only go downhill from there.

You know that rice I burned yesterday evening? Well, the pot got this icky black crust all over the bottom and sides of the pot. Surprisingly little rice got adhered to the sides of the pot, but it was like the pot got coated in a thin layer of tar. I left the pot to [...]

I apologize that I haven't written in my blog quite as much as I have wished in the last few days. I have been quite a bit busy! To prove it, my schedule for today and the next couple of days: Wednesday, 29 January 6:45 — wake up 7:45-8:25 — commute to UW 8:30-9:50 — lecture (Preservation and Conservation [...]

Today the Laurabelle learned how to do SQL joins. I probably shouldn't be quite so happy about this, but it's so darn cool that I'm really excited. I could have eliminated so much icky PHP if I had known how to do them last summer when I did my CD database. I was talking about [...]

This evening I helped out at an ASIS&T workshop on beginning HTML. Basically the workshop went over the basic structure of an HTML document and a couple of concepts such as paragraphs, links, lists, and images. (The final page everyone created looked something like this example.) I, being the perfectionist that I am, had some [...]

I've not ever really had the problem of not thinking before I spoke. I've always tended to think about things a lot. It's just that I would think, and still say the wrong thing. But recently I've managed to think about all the things I could say, and then not say them. You know, like [...]

Another movie night chez Pete, and the showing was another French movie, La Vie revée des anges (in English, The Dreamlife of Angels). I have to say right off, one of the things I really like about this movie, and maybe about furrin movies in general, is that the people look real. You know, the [...]