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John went and tagged me with the silly-yet-clever 4 things meme. I learned some things I didn’t know about him from his, we’ll see how well he knows his boss…

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Retail Store Designer (VideoWatch, now Hollywood Video)
2. Do-naut, John’s Space Age Donut Shop
3. Puppeteer, Kansas City Toy and Miniature Museum
4. Bubble Expert, Kay-Bee Toys

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Baron Munchausen
2. Spirited Away
3. The Muppet Movie
4. Hudsucker Proxy

(the only) Three places I’ve lived:

1. Indianapolis, Indiana
2. Leawood, Kansas
3. Ann Arbor, Michigan

Four TV shows I love:

1. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends
2. Fairly Oddparents
3. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
4. Daily Show

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Disney World
2. Alaska
3. Amelia Island, Florida
4. Chicagoland

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Eggs Benedict (or Deep Fried French Toast) at Angelo’s
2. Vermicelli with Beef and Spring Rolls (#15 at Dalat)
3. New York-style Pepperoni Pizza (NYPD!)
4. A Northside (the Northside Grill’s signature breakfast sandwich)

Four sites I visit daily:

1. metafilter
2. boingboing
3. kotaku
4. axis.aadl.org

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Kosmo (closed for remodeling!)
2. Northside (closes at 3)
3. Angelo’s (closes at 3)
4. Cafe Marie (closes at 2)

Man, I didn’t realize I was so obsessed with Breakfast.

Four bloggers I am tagging:

1. Clam Chowder
2. Hidden Peanuts
3. Notational Slurry
4. matth

One thing remarkable about this very webby 2.0-ish exercise is something that is missing, something you would expect to find in lists of people’s favorite things… most versions of this meme do not include 4 favorite books! As someone pretending to be german used to say, very interesting. However, that will never do, especially as this meme winds its way through the library world, so, let’s put it back in this strain.

Four books (or series) I love:

1. Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
2. The Galactic Milieu Saga, Julian May
3. The Culture Novels, Ian M. Banks
4. Anything by Vernor Vinge

Four Videogames I can (and do) play over and over again:

1. Mario Kart (Doubledash or DS)
2. Pikmin (1 or 2)
3. Dance Dance Revolution (Max2 or higher)
4. Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Off you go, silly little meme. Write when you infect a brain!

Dave at KCPL posts a great set of library gaming goals, and the establishment of a Gaming Task Force. They will use force. To accomplish tasks. Hence, a task force.

Kansas City’s downtown branch is a beautifully restored bank, and one of his notes is for a Game Vault… they are uniquely equipped to provide this service. He also talks about networking matches across libraries. We are planning on testing a multi-branch console network at the AADL-GT planning meeting next weekend, with 4 mario kart stations at Malletts Creek Branch, and 4 downtown. We have gigabit fiber between branches, and with the magic of VLANs, we can create a network for the 8 gamecubes that has ports at both locations.

At AADL, we have gigabit fiber directly to Merit, and we are connected to Internet2. If another library would have a low-latency, high-speed connection, we may be able to do mario kart cross-country, using Warp Pipe, which allows you to route gamecube LAN traffic over the internet. When you do this (which is not supported by Nintendo), the speed of the race is essentially limited by the speed of your internet connection. Ping aadl.org and check your time… if you get below 30 milliseconds, let’s talk.

Internet2 is always looking for cool new killer apps for the Abilene network; it would be great to use this fantastically fast backbone to schlep 6 megabits per second of banana peels and master shells across the country, instead of all the same old telerobotic surgeries and cello master classes.