thebookslinger:

While the Dewey Decimal System may work, it’s far from perfect.

Example:
636.5- Farm animals, how to raise animals, etc.
636.7- Dogs as pets, training, etc.
636.8- Cats as pets, training, etc.
637.3- Cheese making
638- Beekeeping
639.3- Fish as pets, aquariums, etc.

Cheese making? Really?

(via librarianista)

This week I spent time out on my bicycle, going for walks, and using machines at the university gym.

How long until I feel thin again? =/

taweesha:

Because kidnapping people and forcing them to act out your interesting make-believe worlds is technically illegal.

(via excessivebookshelf)

Good things about having a new RPG group: -get to play RPGs again -receive free beer in exchange for running the game

Bad things about having a new RPG group: -grad students are terrifying -location requires me to wait for a bus alone on a downtown street corner

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)

(via subadamantine)

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker  (via larmoyante)

(via subadamantine)