Great finds

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Yesterday I spent some time in the city before picking Joyce up from the airport. In Broadway Paper I found some comical products from Knock Knock, including the “mood alert” pad. I put one up for today’s mood on Flickr. I’m thinking of making a habit of posting these. I found another pad I’m keeping a secret for now in order to surprise one of my friends with it.

Today I visited some used book stores. Renaissance Books is organized in a manner that promotes browsing. That’s a euphemism for disorganized. While browsing, I found one of those used book store gems, one of those things I wasn’t looking for and wouldn’t have imagined existed, The Skiers’ Song Book, from 1950. Yes, 75 goofy ski songs from the semi-distant past! Fellow filkers, beware! It includes some from Europe, too, in various languages. Yesterday, at the branch of the store located in the airport (yes, a used book store in the airport!) I found a 1965 report from Argonne National Lab with lots of information from the early work on the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. Very geeky.

Comments

[lisande.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great day! :)

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you appreciate Renaissance in the proper spirit. We get lot of mundanes who just don't understand that the point of a place like that is the things you didn't know you were looking for until they found you! I'm always especially delighted to sell something like that Argonne report at the airport, between the John Grishams and the Ayn Rands and the Danielle Steeles.