Two weeks ago in Chopped (I mean My) Kitchen...

I like to pretend I'm on the TV show Chopped when I cook. There are 2 reasons for that. One, I have a need to try new things and two, I love to be gameful. Acting like I'm on a show where I can only what's provided (plus the pantry) makes things fun. I look through the kitchen, grab ingredients that need to be cooked and see what I can make. Two weeks ago, I made something that my son has decided is his second-favorite meal. It's a vegetarian potato pancake with green onions, zucchini and garlic.

As I remember, I used:

5 potatoes, shredded
2 zucchini, shredded
2 bunches of green onions, chopped
5 garlic cloves, shredded
2 eggs
Some flour
Some pepper
Some salt

I mixed it together and deep fried it (but since it's vegetarian, it's still healthy, right?)

It tasted a lot like those onion pancakes you can get at some Chinese restaurants. Not bad.

Here's a pic:

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• That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening » Nieman Journalism Lab
  How is the LoC going to archive our tweets? 
  tags: library libraries twitter LoC Library of Congress archive
• :. Copyright Advisory Network :: Copyright Advisory Network .:
  This site rules. There are some very easy-to-use tools so that you can figure some sticky copyright issues out in no time at all. Awesome!
  tags: library libraries resource fairuse media copyright
• Home | YOUmedia
  YouMedia is a way for libraries, museums and more to work together in order to help teens become content creators and become more technologically literate.
  tags: library libraries youth learning YouMedia toolkit media teens ya young adult

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Exploratorium's Explo.tv

Explo.tv is a very interesting web project by the Exploratorium museum, which is located in San Francisco. Founded by Frank Oppenheimer (yes, he was on the Manhattan project), the museum has an emphasis on "hands-on" science. Explo.tv contains podcasts, webcasts, videos and slides--all about cool science. The site looks slick, is easy to use and fun to learn from. There's even a webcast where Thomas Dolby performs "She Blinded Me with Science" live. Awesome!!!!

See it here:

Tweets from the week

Archiving tweets and retweets from the week... I know the Library of Congress is going to archive all the tweets in the world....but I'd like to keep a record of what I'm thinking about and saying, too for myself. Read more about the LoC project here!

Already voted or planning on voting? Take a picture and help @everylibrary raise money toward a $500 goal! librarianwardrobe.com/post/345002961…
— Nicole Pagowsky (@pumpedlibrarian) November 1, 2012

Try this IFTTT Recipe: Notify facebook friends of zombie outbreak from the CDC ifttt.com/recipes/51773
— Susan Barnum (@megalibrarygirl) October 31, 2012

Putting finishing touches on my costume then off to work!
— Susan Barnum (@megalibrarygirl) October 31, 2012

And that's the news!

Messages in a bottle

Social media is a like a message in a bottle. It's posted, written, created and then shared out into a sea of networked sites. Some messages get picked up and read, but I wonder how many are just out there bobbing around in the Internet? How many people have sent out a message that no one's read?

Is it useful to write something down that no one might read? Journals and diaries have been used by individuals for years to write about what is going on and how they feel about life and what they see around them. Journals and diaries weren't meant to be read by others, but they are written down by individuals anyway. The usefulness comes for the writer of the diary: it helps solidify ideas, make thoughts concrete and physically malleable.

When diaries are shared, it's an insight into something that is often very personal, but was never meant to be shared.

A message in a bottle is meant to be read. It's written with hopes that someone, somewhere will see it, find it and a connection is made. But the writer doesn't know who, where or when it will be read or if it's ever read.

Our social media messages in a bottle are meant to be shared. Many of them are as personal as a diary, but really, we tweet, blog, share status updates and locations because we want people to find us, know us and connect--even if the connection is asynchronous. We want to be "heard." To read a thought is to keep it alive.

Oh... and happy NaBloPoMo!

Halloween wig: Medusa

I'm revealing the wig that I'll be wearing today! It's a Medusa snake wig. I think there's like 100 little plastic snakes, some ribbon, feathers and some itchy plant stuff from the dollar store glued to the shower cap I used as a base. I hope the rest of the costume turns out as well!

For my kids, we made two costumes together. My son and I built a robot costume out of cardboard, duct tape and spray paint. I apparently need to still add wheels to the side of the costume since it's not just a "robot" but a "transformer." Well, that's too easy to do with a glue-gun and who doesn't have a few wheels lying around the house? LOL. Actually, there's a broken toy in the shed I think I'll use for the wheels. My daughter and I worked on a snow leopard costume. Aubrey, my partner, says she's going to go as a cowgirl.  Pictures forthcoming! :)

UPDATE: Pictures! Me at work and the fam getting ready to trick or treat. All costumes hand made! :D

Hope your Halloween was fun!!!!

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• 7 insanely useful ways to search Twitter | Articles | Main

  7 insanely useful ways to search Twitter http://t.co/SABMGCj

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• Your “Library” Doesn’t Partici

  Your “Library” Doesn’t Participate in Social Media, But Your People Do by @T_Swanson (resonating with me right now!) http://t.co/HfhgwIZ

  tags: diigo

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