Today's public service message: support your local library. Yes, I buy books but for research this guy is not ponying up the bucks for books on aviation, jet engines, Civil war tactics, bridles, vaudevillian clowns, Native American medicine, etc. Sure there's the Internet (duh), but the glare--the mining in poorly designed site architecture--such the drag. I always feel I've missed something. Don't know if you've been watching AMC's RUBICON (it has grown on me) but I am utterly miffed how those researchers buzz through mountains of data to connect the dots. Fiction, Kieran, it's fiction. Is it? Nothing beats a book grabbed from the stacks that makes you go...hmmm...I did not know that. Of course this leads to additions in the night stand pile which more and more each day grows higher and higher. Dive off or dive in, I suppose.
10/21/10
Dive In Option
Today's public service message: support your local library. Yes, I buy books but for research this guy is not ponying up the bucks for books on aviation, jet engines, Civil war tactics, bridles, vaudevillian clowns, Native American medicine, etc. Sure there's the Internet (duh), but the glare--the mining in poorly designed site architecture--such the drag. I always feel I've missed something. Don't know if you've been watching AMC's RUBICON (it has grown on me) but I am utterly miffed how those researchers buzz through mountains of data to connect the dots. Fiction, Kieran, it's fiction. Is it? Nothing beats a book grabbed from the stacks that makes you go...hmmm...I did not know that. Of course this leads to additions in the night stand pile which more and more each day grows higher and higher. Dive off or dive in, I suppose.