Just something about librarians…and…chicks with tatoos. Ooh La Lah!
From the Texas Library Association…
A fundraising activity for the TLA LIBRARY DISASTER RELIEF FUND, this calendar showcases the charms and often concealed art of 21 women of the Texas library community. As members of the Texas Library Association, these women volunteered to reveal their ink and share some of their stories for the well-being of our state’s libraries.
Who’s in it? The Tattooed Ladies represent both urban and rural libraries; public, school, academic, and special libraries; and the state’s geography from El Paso to the Gulf Coast and from North Texas to the Rio Grande Valley. You’ll meet seasoned professionals and passionate lay advocates, retired librarians and library school students. Libraries thrive on and promote diversity and freedom of expression. The Tattooed Ladies of TLA calendar is a testament to both.
Take it away Rory…
As always, this makes me long for a Stratocaster to hack away on; just click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.
From the LA Times….
It may be raining satellites
The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.
Some of the callers reported what looked like a fireball in the sky….
….The FAA notified pilots Saturday to be aware of possible debris after a collision Tuesday between U.S. and Russian communication satellites.
Hmm…I smell a cover up. Perhaps our man in Texas can look in to this.
PD, show us a Satellite!
Ok, so the first surprise in this Science Daily article is that Texas has an official state dinosaur.
State Dinosaur?
Hunh!!??
Who knew? Do other states have official dinosaurs?
The second surprise in the Science Daily article is that apparently, Texas got it wrong. Got the wrong dinoaur and now, they want to change it.
Peter Rose is the scientist behind the name change: His master’s level study of dinosaur bones at SMU eventually led him to dispute the long-accepted notion that the large, sauropod bones found in and around the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, were the same as Pleurocoelus bones first found in Maryland in the late 1800s.
Rose determined it was a different dinosaur altogether – a previously unrecognized genus and species he named Paluxysaurus jonesi, after W.W. Jones, the owner of the land on which the fossils were found.
Well, this stuff is important and you got to get it right, right?
Paluxysaurus jonesi
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