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Oh my god I love this concept.
Deep Water Prompt #3064
When libraries are not maintained they expand, swallowing cities block by block. If you run into a building too big to comprehend, that city has starved its library, and you should not go in.
23.09.22
“Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to / follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.”—Jean Valentine
My weeks have been full with readings, classes, a couple assignments, and a midterm that is suddenly two weeks away. Time to prepare my battle CANs.
Also, tort law’s asking the real question.
23.09.23
“and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition” —Tennessee Williams
Yesterday was my first moot practice, and the pressure is on! My weekend plans are nothing but readings. I’m overwhelmed, but I’m doing what I can and loving what I do. Am I doing too much? If I’m ambitious, it’s a grievous fault. Let’s find out how I answer it.
Aight y'all. Here's a lesson I learned from my wife, and I wish I'd learned it years ago:
Before you buy anything, take 5 minutes to search (preferably with a non-Google search engine like DuckDuckGo) "best [whatever] for [specific purpose if necessary]."
Make sure you look at who the reviews are from; there are a lot of bad spam sites out there, but you can find good lists on reputable sites. However, you'll get some of the best lists on Reddit.
Most of what you'll find at the top of the lists on Amazon (and Walmart) are people who have paid for that spot. You'll still have to use discernment to make sure you're picking a good review site, but I'm not kidding when i say that the last time we had to buy a plunger, I ended up on a thread on a plumber's forum where they were discussing which plunger they keep in their own bathroom. (The overwhelming winner was something called a Toilet Saber, and... it's much easier to use than the usual style of plunger, actually.)
She searches "best potato peeler" and "best pastry blender" and "best standing desk" and it seems so obvious, right, but she does it for literally everything and the average quality of things I own has gone way, way up since I started taking 5 minutes to search "best yoga socks" and "best cuticle trimmers" and then going to buy whatever it is.
Her research skills go into overdrive when it comes to big purchases; she's the one who researched our sublimation printer and found the desk I currently use. If there's an extremely passionate subreddit out there about the thing she wants to buy, she'll find it and then read half a dozen reviews.
I cannot stress enough how much she does this. About. Everything. And how much everything we own is better as a result.
It's amazing, honestly.
17 free and helpful things, that everyone can take advantage of
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library They send an age appropriate book once a month if you have a child younger than 5.
Project Gutenberg Lots of free classic books.
Library Genesis A great place to look for and download college/university textbooks for free, as well as other books.
Scihub Endless Free college books. (and peer-reviewed scientific publications that are otherwise hidden behind a paywall)
Khan Academy Free knowledge that you can use to clep out of university courses, or to simply invest your time in a worthwhile topic.
Openlearn UK’s Open University - free courses for all levels of study, samples of university materials, study skills and tie-ins to BBC documentaries. Everything under Creative Commons licence so you can use it as you see fit.
Duolingo The Green Owl of Languages. There are a few hundred that it teaches and the mobile app makes it easy to do anywhere while waiting (!warning! only good for Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Esperanto, and English. with anything else it gets very low-quality and short.).
Codecademy An awesome site to learn how to use some programming languages. Doesn't get into the really advanced stuff, but it's good for a start.
Photopea Completely free Photoshop clone that has all the basic features of Photoshop, using basically the same interface.
Gimp Another free version of Photoshop.
Unsplash Stock of free photos of just about anything, provided by the photographers themselves, to do with what you like.
Futureme You can write letters to yourself (or other people) in the future! You can also make notifications and reminders of a +doctors appointments or anything else important.
Heavens Above You can look up all the satellites flying over your house tonight, including the ISS, Hubble Space Telescope, those pesky Starlink satellites, and whatever else your heart desires, complete with star maps and precise timing. And there is an Android app, but unfortunately no iOS one last I checked. (For iOS you can use “Sputnik!” which is free and tells, when ISS and Hubble passes overhead.)
Night Sky Other astronomy app for iOS. If you hold your phone to the sky the app tells you what you're looking at (or point it at the ground for a view from the other side of the planet). Zoom in with two fingers and tons of deep space stuff is revealed.
Freecycle its literally people giving away stuff they don't need/want any more that they can't/don't care enough to sell.
Nexus Mods Has thousands of video game mods (for 1,509 PC games), made by independent content creators, available to download at no cost.
Archive The Archive aka Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and so much more... For example a lot of DOS games (classics like Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, DOOM, Monkey island, Rayman, Turtles), directly playable through the browser.
My earlier list
More things to do
public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):
brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)
seattle (13-26yo us residents)
boston (13-26yo us residents)
los angeles (13-18yo california residents)
san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)
these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
Books Tulane's library actually has
Jonetta Rose Barras. The Last of the Black Emperors: the Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders (Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998).
Richard M. Bernard. Snowbelt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest since World War II (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Kenneth R. Bowling. The Creation of Washington, D.C.: the Idea and Location of the American Capital (Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1991).
Marvin Harold Caplan. Farther Along: a Civil Rights Memoir (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).
Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital (Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1937).
Willard B. Gatewood. Aristicrats of Color: the Black Elite, 1880-1920 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Harry Jaffe. Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
United States. Compilation of selected federal acts relating to municipal affairs of the District of Columbia : as amended through November 7, 2002 : including District of Columbia Home Rule Act, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995, District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995, National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 : prepared for the use of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2002).
Ronald W. Waters and Toni-Michelle Travis. Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2010).
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~C.S.LEWİS
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