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Vote for the 2010 Teen Tech Week Theme

Teen Tech Week was last week. You can vote for the 2010 Teen Tech Week theme (and answer a short survey about your use of technology) on the YALSA website. Choose from three potential themes: TMI @ your library; FYI @ your library; and Create, Share, Learn @ your library. The poll will also asks a few questions about your tech habits, how you use technology at school or during free time, and the availability of technology at the libraries you use.

Create a Resume Using Google Docs

In Google, go to the drop down menus in the upper left hand corner and click on more.  Then go to Documents.

Google will make you create a user id and password but after you do that, you can access all the nifty online tools they have, including Google Docs, the online equivalent of Microsoft Word. Docs is web based, so you can create files, upload, edit, share and store your files via the internet. So, when you leave Council Grove High School, you can access your files from any computer that has a network connection.

The best thing about Google Docs in my opinion, though, are the templates. You can make a survey, a scrapbook, business cards, resumes, and a host of other professional looking documents. Right now, there are hundreds of resume and cover letter templates available for you to use, and they look good.

Google also has Spreadsheets (like Excel) and Presentations (like PowerPoint).

Here is a screenshot of how one of the resume templates looks. Yep, it's tiny, but you get the idea.

  

Angel

“You’re wrong,” the dark angel said. “Humans base everything on appearances.” He twisted his profile to her, executed a grotesque pirouette. “You like the angel look I have assumed for you today? The androgynous features, with matching toga? It’s been all the rage since a few dull Western painters made it up in the middle of the nineteenth century. Now we have to come to you approximating it, or you all shrivel up in fear.”

From page 129 of Angel by Cliff McNish, another gift from the CG Area Foundation Fund.

The Disreputable History

"Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box--a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

Frankie wanted to be a force." (from page 214 of Printz Honor Book, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

Yes, it has one of the least attractive book covers EVER. And, ok, it's a girl-empowerment book filled with characters who are both way more intelligent, way more ruthless, and way richer than me.  

But the book is smart.  

Boy, is it ever. 

And lots of fun.

And it won an award!  How cool is that?

-mh 

Ode to Plaid

Plaid is an ancient and regal tradition.  Originally used to denote clan in Scotland, it has spread like wildfire across the lands, infecting every nation and every culture with the tartan-streaked color wheel of godless beauty.  Today, plaid no longer denotes clan, but instead denotes mental toughness and astonishing bravery.

It’s a well known fact that men and women all over the world choose plaid for its warmth, feel, quality, and of course, beauty.  No matter where you live, you can rest assured that a plaid clad warrior is off somewhere not so far away defending you and everyone you love from menial labor.  These plaid soldiers do things like chop wood, get into bar fights, have beards, live in the mountains, and generally are tougher than everyone else.  Thus, is their value to society.

If you’d like to join the plaid cult of personality, too bad, you aren’t plaid worthy.  Spend a year learning to handle an axe, then maybe you’ll have what it takes to be considered for plaidhood.  Plaid: it’s the magic that makes the world go round.

Many posers attempt to choose to wear plaid. What they do not realize is that you don’t get to choose plaid.  Plaid chooses you.  Because so many have attempted to disgrace the holy vessel that is plaid by wearing it without divine right, certain measures have been put into place to keep these pretenders under control.  This includes anyone who wears aviators with their plaid.  That, though, is really the only stipulation.

For the ladies. . . .  All you really need to do to attract manly, stunning, plaidwearing beasts is to wear plaid yourselves.  This is because it takes courage just to wear the stuff for you fashion sensitive types.  Anyone who knows me knows that the way to my empty heart cavity is through plaidwearing women.  I salute you plaidchosen women, for being of that genus that makes me so giddy with the joy of the chase. Thanks for being there, the only type of female capable of handling a true plaid warrior. Written in the stars through time, we were made for each other. 

-Scott

Teen Tech Week 2009

Fray

Thanks to a generous donation from the CG Area Foundation Fund, we were able to buy a few books that we would not ordinarily have  been able to buy. One of those books is FRAY, a Joss Whedon graphic novel involving much battling of impossible odds to achieve, if not greatness, survival.

Perfect Circle

I was Stumble Uponing (best thing ever) the other day, and I found a site on YouTube about a Freehand Circle Drawing Champion. This man warmed up with a few windmills of the arm and presto! --a perfect circle. -ap

un pollo de goma

Keaton shows off his stop motion animation techniques in this video of the Attack Chicken, Sweeney, going for Josh.

PIGS

We have three fantabulous books about pigs in the CGHS Library. Oddly enough, they do not move. Hey, they are captivating books!

The Complete Pig: An Entertaining History of Pigs

The Whole Hog:  Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs

The Good Pig:  The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

Here is a sample from page 56 of The Good Pig. "Then there were parties. I used to dread them. I could never think of anything appropriate to say. My innate idea of a great conversation starter is something like 'A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant!' This opener often causes strangers to move away. Another party strategy that I've found doesn't work is staring at the floor. At one reception I had to attend because I was getting an award, I stared at the floor so intently that other people thought I had dropped something and offered to help me look for it.

But now--thanks to Chris--I had a mission at parties. Finally, I had something to talk about.

I didn't even have to bring it up. Often, when we met new people, our hostess would introduce us: 'And this is Sy and Howard. They have a pig.' "