eclipsed by the lunar body of cluelessness

[cimorene]

via cleolinda via guinevere33,

It's ... sublime. It's like looking into the solar corona of hackery, eclipsed only by the lunar body of cluelessness. Even when you go into the comments on his own right-wing site, you read things like: "I too believe Hollywood is filled with perverts and socialists. But an Oscar for Episode III? Are you high?"¹

and here's something else you can file in your brain under "things everybody else already knew": åbo akademis huvudbibliotek has no stacks.  i've heard about libraries like this, in toronto or new york or something, that my mom has been to with me when i was too young to remember, but the thought was so weird and alien that i never bothered to stick it in there under "things cim knows about libraries".  this explains why i had such a hard time finding things at the main library last fall!  and why it seems to contain so few books, because the ones on public display are only the läsesals examplar, the ones that can't be removed from the library at all.  there is a wonderful way of obtaining books from them that can be done almost entirely over the internet!  you just search the catalog and click "beställ"! references to fizzbin have no logical validity in this context.

1. okay, that paragraph contains the best single sentence, but my favourite bit was actually the part about lawrence of arabia.

Comments

[apoplexia.livejournal.com]

Do they have departmental libraries? In Germany, the main library is commonly closed holdings, and the departmental libraries are open (although often you can't borrow from the dept. libraries).

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yes, but you can't borrow from them. :)