LOL! Boooooooks

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[bubblesort]

Out of curiosity, I typed corona in Amazon search. I got lots of weird stuff, but my favorite corona thing on Amazon right now is Chuck Tingle's new book, "The Overwhelming Existential Weight of Staying in Drives me Nuts but Makes Me Nut."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tolkien

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tolkien

www.smbc-comics.com

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

Ahem. From the front page of today's Times. This is either a wonderful coincidence or shameless click-bait.

Dan Brown: ‘sordid affairs’ of Da Vinci Code author | News | The Times

Accessibility Links Skip to content Dan Brown: ‘sordid affairs’ of Da Vinci Code author Henry Zeffman, Washington Wednesday July 01 2020, 12.01am, The Times Media Religion Books Blythe Brown scoured r...

www.evernote.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

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I've mostly been helping out a professor with her outreach work. She's putting together resources to demystify data modeling and statistical methods-based approaches to epidemiological predictions. She works in public health and economics. Since this is not my field, I've been given readings to do. Starting on the z-score formula this week. Not as daunting as I expected it to be, but still challenging nonetheless.

 

[Noodles]

I apparently forgot just how quickly I liked Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter.

I got an email from Yahoo that I have apparently had the email address "Luna_Loveg00d" for 17 years.

Luna first showed up in Order of the Phoenix, which was released 17 years, 14 days ago. So within two weeks I had read the book and created an email address related to the character. Seems I wasn't fast enough though since apparently luna_lovegood was taken.

 

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Someone put some decent time into this prank.

 

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Book history!

 

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Also,

Wiki Wormhole: Do bookstores make you poop? The Japanese have a theory

There are plenty of attempts to explain the Mariko Aoki phenomenon. One theory says a chemical present in either paper or ink triggers the sensation.

aux.avclub.com

 

[Isabeau]

Many answers to the original tweet.

 

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Many answers to the original tweet.

"We had to close for business, thanks to all the fucking vampires."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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Librarian says she changed books to troll school, not Boris Johnson

Has anyone seen my copy of 'The Twits'?

metro.co.uk

A librarian who was praised for her ‘supreme trolling’ of a speech by Boris Johnson says she arranged books to send a message to the school’s leaders, not the Prime Minister.

Unbeknown to Mr Johnson, or any of his aides, he was made to look a bit of a ‘twit’ as he tried to stress the importance of getting children back to school after the coronavirus lockdown during a speech in Leicestershire yesterday.

Eagle-eyed commentators on Twitter quickly spotted the books on the shelves behind him may not have been chosen totally at random.

 

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When I worked in a bookstore I used to recommend setting up book displays like this. Because DAMN there sure are a lot of people who ask for books in this way.

 

[Isabeau]

Nice account to follow.