Chatterbox Thursday

He does enjoy the water slide though.

As Chumbles said:

"She got a job in cataloguing (Crankcaller will no doubt affirm that this is where the library authority hides its headcases)."

Yes, they're usually weirdos if nothing else. I've asked ours - a weirdo - to explain things to me as if I don't know anything about cataloguing - he then rattles on mentioning certain Marc record fields and subfields as if I should know them off the top of my head and obscure aacr2 rules.

You can spot them at library conferences. The CILIP conference should have a competition the way DEFCON has a 'spot the fed' competition.

#cataloguerprejudice

Lunch was fish finger rolls with sweet chilli sauce.

You are just hellbent on sabotaging my FF team, aren't you?

Hold up.

I used to work in a library's cataloguing section, when I moved to London with my head full of dreams. My library dream ended in cataloguing. It wasn't for me.

Yes, Indian burn. Not as painful.

I was just a humble ‘Information Assistant’ at the time. So my time in Cataloguing involved mainly labelling books, putting in the security tags and doing some minor updating on the database.

Not for me. But actually it didn’t seem much better on the rung above me, and to ascend to that point I’d have to do a Masters degree, and even then the rung above me was still a rung below the most generic administrative jobs in the rest of the higher education institution I worked for.

I suppose cataloguing isn’t so much a job as a calling.

Were the security tags "tattle tape" - the plastic stuff you stuck down the spine? God. I spent a lot of time doing that when I started. Processing stock.

*Cuts to dream sequence of young crank on a Saturday morning still off his face in a backroom processing books*

I think Sterling was looking for it and after watching many replays agree it wasn't a penalty. He was on his way down anticipating contact from his right side before he brushed against the big lad on his left. Thought the Kane one was even less of a penalty. However, I approve of this use of VAR - to check if the ref has made a reasonable decision, as in rugby, rather than to scrutinise every aspect of every decision, as in the EPL. Also hard to dispute Engerland being the better team. If only they'd drop the weird 'it's coming home' nonsense, and someone eg Roy Keane could politely ask Rio and 'Wrighty' to pipe down a bit, that would make things even better.

Although it doesn't bother me, I get why the whole "it's coming home" thing winds people up.

That said:
a) the original song was about a football tournament 'coming home' to the country where football originated, rather than a song about a trophy coming home. The song is clearly about the hope of being a fan outweighing the disappointment of past experience, rather than an arrogant assumption thst England are going to win.
b) whichever country wins the trophy then takes it "home". It's the home of the winner, not the home of the trophy.

I saw Ian Broudie not so long ago in a local 'organic' foodshop. He gave me a big beaming smile.

Good guy.

If I had to name just one thing, it’d be the chatterbox.

The homicidal cataloguer waited until my mate was high up on a sliding ladder before running at him with a pair of cutting shears held overhead, Psycho style screaming in a high pitched whistle punching a hole in his trousers next to Ken's wedding tackle and knocking him off the ladder; before running round the corner and shouting from between another pair of stacks:

"It wasn't me, it was that mad bitch Bernadette."...

When I was studying for my BA (hons) in Librarianship, I had to study various forms of cataloguing including, ffs, Library of Congress, besides the insanity of Dewey Decimal.

But a special place in my hell is reserved for Ranganathan and his Colon... I'm sure that was when I developed colitis ...  Amazon reviews are all Indian Amazon with such gems as: "classic book for faceted classification. Also helpful for building lightweight ontology"