{"id":681,"date":"2013-02-14T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=681"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:57:58","slug":"of-troll-quotes-and-book-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Of Troll Quotes and Book Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time browsing the aggregator in hopes of finding potential blog post fodder. I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/bionicteaching.com\/?p=2501\">Tom Woodward&#8217;s rif on quotes and authenticity<\/a> but could find nothing of any consequence to add except to say thanks for providing the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaellivingston.com\/\">Michael Livingston&#8217;s blog<\/a>, which has been added to the aggregator.<\/p>\n<p>So, I tried my hand at making a <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/troll-quotes\/\">troll quote<\/a> instead:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ivyrun.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Slide1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-682 alignnone\" title=\"Earth and Stars\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ivyrun.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Slide1-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">This seems like something that would make it to Facebook, if I do say so myself, although it occurred to me that I am very much out of the mainstream when it comes to media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 17px;\" title=\"The LIbrary by TheRichardsons, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/6556107927\/\"><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border-color: #a8001c;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7026\/6556107927_c7b0c198e1_m.jpg?resize=240%2C179\" alt=\"The LIbrary\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">From Tom (btw, that West Wing video clip in <a href=\"http:\/\/bionicteaching.com\/?p=2513\">another post<\/a> is one of my favorites), I headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/02\/diy-book-scanning-is-easier-than-you-think\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">because this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">phrase annoyed me: &#8220;Bookshelves today are simply not as <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">appealing as they used to be.&#8221; Really? I do beg to differ. I have no interest in spending $500 to build a book scanner so I can get rid of my books any more than I got rid of my albums once I digitized them. I still put an album on th<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">e turntable now and then. And there are just times when I want to read an analog book, one with pages, one that runs on its own power (and mine as I turn those pages). Part of the reason we bought this house is because I needed more shelves! Two more books arrived in the mail yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, it occurred to me that maybe I&#8217;m out of the mainstream here as well. Digital is always better, and I can turn into a 150-page-a-minute book scanner. But, when would I find time to read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time browsing the aggregator in hopes of finding potential blog post fodder. I loved Tom Woodward&#8217;s rif on quotes and authenticity but could find nothing of any consequence to add except to say thanks for providing the link to Michael Livingston&#8217;s blog, which has been added to the aggregator. So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of Troll Quotes and Book Shelves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,115,195],"tags":[391],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creativity","category-ds106","tag-ds106"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-aZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}