A Monday in Brooklyn
I'm sitting at the Brooklyn Public Library right now where there is free (though unsecure) internet access for anybody within range. I ended up taking the day off because my computer wouldn't turn on... and that allowed me to traipse around Brooklyn in the Park Slope area for a little while. I need to head back to my aunt and uncle's apartment to hang out with my 11-year-old cousin for the rest of the afternoon... and then hopefully catch Heroes this evening. A more detailed report of of my self-guided walking tour will come sometime later.
I'm completely lame because I didn't bring a camera with me to New York. So I don't have a picture of the finished front plaza of the central branch that was just recently finished. Here's an aeriel photo of what it looked like under construction.
My uncle is the project director for the project, which also includes a new 200-person auditorium and conference rooms in the basement, which I got to see. That is also almost done. It was really cool. Awesome libraries are definitely one pro to living in (or near) a big city.
Right now I've forgotten my blog password and I don't feel like resetting it so I'll have to retro-publish this entry.
Someone this past weekend told me that some group of people are petitioning the Oxford English Dictionary to antiquate the use of hyphens, supposedly because of the fast and trendy "internet" or whatever that is. I personally don't think hyphens should be antiquated because then we'll have reallylongass words like the Norwegians and Germans do. They must be on their way to antiquating spaces between words, which is really progressive. Maybe we should all be aiming for that level of linguallove.
