Riba Rambles:
Musings of a Mental Magpie

Posted by Lis Riba at 10:30 AM

Now that the ALA conference has begun, I thought I'd check if any of our competitors were offering free demos which I could/should check out.

Along the way, I got sidetracked by discovering backdoor access into a database of dissertation and theses.

Since then, I've been racking up links to works I'd like to read, both of personal and professional interest.

Sadly, many of the ideas I've thought would make good dissertations have apparently not been written, which means that if I want to learn more about those topics, I may have to do the research myself.

Posted by Lis Riba at 7:57 AM

Think they're having fun?

Posted by Lis Riba at 7:27 AM

Been a while since I posted some of these:

Posted by Lis Riba at 7:30 PM

Remember we bought a new car last August?

Tonight, on my commute home, I watched the odometer roll over from 19,999 to 20,000.

Mechanical dials made these events much more impressive than digital readout.

Posted by Lis Riba at 10:50 AM

The results, I mean, not the fact that I'm wasting away my Sunday morning taking free online quizzes.

Your result for The Leadership Test...

Very Good Leadership

You scored 89 good leadership, and 14 poor leadership

You've got a lot of great skills, attitudes, and attributes to be a leader. You are cut out for being a leader, and know how to make the right decisions in the right situation(s). The aptitude for leadership is definitely in you.

Take The Leadership Test at HelloQuizzy

I tried to answer as honestly as I could, and avoided tailoring my responses to what might be considered correct.

Posted by Lis Riba at 10:15 AM

IT was going to be one of Rabbit's busy days. As soon as he woke up he felt important, as if everything depended upon him. It was just the day for Organizing Something, or for Writing a Notice Signed Rabbit, or for Seeing What Everybody Else Thought About It. It was a perfect morning for hurrying round to Pooh, and saying, "Very well, then, I'll tell Piglet," and then going to Piglet, and saying, "Pooh thinks--but perhaps I'd better see Owl first." It was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody said, "Yes, Rabbit " and "No, Rabbit," and waited until he had told them.

You scored as Rabbit!

ABOUT RABBIT: Rabbit is generally considered Clever by his many friends and relations. He is actually a much better reader and writer than Owl, but he doesn't consider it worth mentioning. Instead, Rabbit's real talent lies in Organizing Plans. He organizes rescue parties, makes schemes to reduce Tigger's bounciness, and goes on missions to find out what Christopher Robin does when he's not at the Hundred Acre Woods. Sometimes, however, his Plans do not always go as Planned.

WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are smart, practical and you plan ahead. People sometimes think that you don't stress or worry, but this is not the case. You are the kind of person who worries in a practical way. You think a) What are my anxieties about and b)what can be done about them? No useless fretting for you. You don't see the point in sitting around and waiting for things to work out, when you could actually work them out today and save yourself a lot of time and worry. Your friends tend to rely on you, because they know that they can trust you help them work things out.

You sometimes tend to be impatient with people who are less practical in their ways. You don't have much patience for idiots who moan about things but never actually DO anything about them. You have high expectations of everyone, including yourself. When you don't succeed at something, or when something goes wrong despite your best efforts to prevent it, you can get quite hard on yourself. You need to cut yourself some slack and accept that everyone has their faults, even you, and THAT IS OKAY. Let yourself be faulty, every now and then, for the sake of your own sanity.

Take The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test at HelloQuizzy