Tag Archives: language

Friday Fun Link – Archive of All Wordle Answers

I haven’t been doing the Wordle regularly like I used to but still occasionally do it. And it recently occurred to me that if you have a regular “starting word” and you looked at an archive of all previous Wordle solutions, that would let you know if there was still a chance you might hit […]

With Apologies to William Carlos Williams (aka Emails I Send To Branch Staff)

This Is Just To Say I have drank the diet ginger ale that was in the SV icebox And which might have belonged to you Forgive me if it was yours I could not remember If it was mine (There are also a couple Coke Zeros in there that might be mine too – let […]

RPL Stories: John

I’ve said it before but #RPLStories is easily the best marketing campaign the library I work for has ever done (they’re focused on patron stories so I’m not just saying that because I have a cameo in one of them!) πŸ˜‰ I knew his story already (likely from his own #RPLStory) but had a lengthy […]

Friday Fun Link – How Every NHL Team Was Named

“Life Moves Pretty Fast”: Why Gen X “Got It” Before The Rest of You

As a Gen-Xer, I don’t even know if this article is being sarcastic or not?

Friday Fun Link – How Human Is Your Dog’s Name?

Fun little web tool…

Friday Fun Link – Annual Performance Review Time (For Your Pets!)

It’s the end of the year. You know what that means. Tweeting me your Annual performance reviews for your pets. Did they meet expectations, exceed expectations or fail to meet expectations? Please leave a picture of your non-human resource below with their performance review. — Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 6, 2022

Friday Fun Link – ChatGPT Is An Exponential Leap for Artificial Intelligence

The new artificial intelligence service, ChatGPT, has taken the Internet by storm and with good reason – this is incredibly realistic (mostly), fast, free artificial intelligence that has potential to revolutionalize the world in numerous ways improving exponentially from similar earlier services. (Of course, as someone pointed out on Reddit, “everyone thought Excel would revolutionize […]

Friday Fun Link – Liam Gallagher’s Funniest Moments

Friday Fun Link – Paid Twitter Verified Accounts Running Amok

"I'm gonna be blunt here: Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground…and it's the best Twitter's ever been." @trevornoah pic.twitter.com/COQ3V0q06b — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 11, 2022 After paying the rather insane sum of $44 billion for Twitter, Elon Musk had to make his money back somehow. Unfortunately, doing away with the site’s […]