Just imagine running up behind people, knocking them over and shouting "I STRIKE AGAIN!" at awkward moments..... Man... I wish I was a Llama...

Noirette: Why did you join Gnet, and do you like it so far?

This goes to everyone (and I know I already asked BlackMilk this but...): If the apocalypse already happened and the world is covered in dirt and flame, would you rather be a chicken, a goat, or a llama? Actually, scratch the llama part and change it to cow.

I'd want to be a mountain goat, so then I could live in the mountains.

If there were no mountains, I'd just headbutt people with my horns and make my goat sound.

No seriously. I'm the goat who'd either live in the mountains in peace, or be a pain in the arse to everything else.

to the librarian among us.

why is there no way to determine when checking a book out at our library to see if I have checked it out say in the last 5 years or so? Cause I get a great looking book home only to find I have read it already. My local librarian says it would be a great thing to be able to do.

i read on an average of 5 books a week, lots less than before I had internet, also having trouble getting used to reading with my glasses on. Since my cataracts were removed, my vision is no longer bad enough to allow me to use my long distance vision for books 6 inches away from my face unfortunate side effect they warned me about.

Those are cute indeed! As I see it (and there exist many variations in instruments):

#1 - Rebec - pear shaped, played with a bow, and can be awfully screetchy.
#2 - Transverse Flute - 3-4 hole. These changed a lot after 1700.
#3 - Yes, a Lyre in the Greek style, which gives us a clue as to the time.
#4 - Lute - this one has 3 strings, and is probably an accompaniment instrument.

These are pre-renaissance angels.

Across the street? Because I like it here

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but more to the intent of the question? I'd probably move to the east coast Maritime provinces... My wife and I visited Nova Scocia and PEI a few years ago, and I'd have to call it a pretty beautiful and amazing place... but still, not quite like "home" ... I'm definitely a "west coaster"...

(ps... it's really strange to stand on the edge of the ocean, facing east...)

I'd move to Vancouver, BC or Los Angeles.

It wasn't my question, but #1 looks like a lute, and #4 a mandolin?

Just off the top of my head, I'll list a handful of groups for each

No-Wave : "Teenage Jesus & The Jerks", "Sonic Youth", "James Chance and the Contortions", "The Static"

Trip-Hop : "Massive Attack", "Portishead", "Sneaker Pimps", "Morcheeba", "Tricky"

Both styles are essentially dead, but both have a few artists still going.

Ah, I knew you'd come through for me! Thanks, Lachy! I did a search on eBay last night and found my angels, and was amazed at the price people are asking for them! (They're from the late '80s.)

Thanks to orlok and HopelessRomantic, too.




The only books you've borrowed that should show up in a library's automated circulation system are those books that you haven't yet returned, or have outstanding overdue fines on them. Libraries don't keep (or shouldn't keep) records on what patrons have borrowed over the years, and for a very good reason.

Back in the 1970s, the U.S. government pressured public libraries for lists of what books patrons had borrowed in order to compile information on people the government felt "needed watching." The American Library Association fought this, and libraries won the right to protect patron privacy and people's right to read.

Now here we are in the 21st century and, guess what? The government still wants to monitor citizens' reading habits. This time through the PATRIOT Act, which permits the federal government to demand that a library turn over all computer records. Once again, the American Library Association fought this – but this time there was no winning against the PATRIOT Act. So now, libraries dump those records from their automated circulation system (or deliberately choose software that can't maintain those kinds of records). This is how we can still protect citizens' right to read, and also be in compliance with the PATRIOT Act. The government can demand our automated circulation computers, but there won't be any compiled information on them relating to what any particular individual has read over the past several years.

Here is a statement from the American Library Association:



-- Nephele

Hopeless-

#1 is pear-shaped and played with a bow, so it's a Rebec. A lute is plucked or strummed with a pick or fingers.

#4 could indeed be a mandore, which came about in the mid-1500s, but by then the Rebec was gone except for parts of Crete (where it's still played today) and Spain, so I went with the generic Lute for a pear-shaped stringed instrument. Mandore is still in the running, though.

Obstructive bureaucracy used for good instead of evil! I am amazed!

The thing that made me actually register was because I wanted to find other gothy people in my area.

I also wanted to freak my husband out because although he knows I've been into goth since before we met, he wasn't expecting me to emerge from goth-dormancy. Okay, half kidding, but he was surprised when I told him I'd joined the Gnet forums.

And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, yes, I do like it so far.

I heard of Sonic Youth, but haven't actually heard their music yet. For some reason, I always thought they were a punk band, serves me right for making assumptions based off a bands name


And I love Sneaker Pimps, well at least when Kelli Dayton was still on vocals. I didn't even bother to listen to any of their stuff after she left.

Libraries are naturally subversive! Here's a favorite quote:

"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." – Guy Browning

@ Lachrymose: I need to know what to call these angels. So, the one with the flute is a flautist, and the one with the rebec is a... "rebecist"? Or should that be "rebeckist"? (As in the punning name of the rebec-playing character Hugh Rebeck in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 5.)

Would you call the one with the lute a lutist, lutanist, or lutenist? (I found all three of those words in use, but am not sure which is the most commonly used.) And what would you call the one with the lyre? Lyrist?

-- Nephele