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IllinoisOwl

Age 73
Joined Saturday, October 16, 2004
Recent Book Activity

Dealers of Lightning : Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Wright-Sized Houses : Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions Small Houses
Menopaws: The Silent Meow
The Cyberiad
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Getting Permission: How to License and Clear Copyrighted Materials Online and Of
The 59-Second Employee : How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One Minute Manager
I, Robot
Whiskers & Rhymes
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Extended Profile
"but PIGS are supposed to be more like humans than CATS are!"


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I work in information technology, teach at a local university, and have an on-line store selling book-related stuff.


My picture is a cut from Arnold Lobel's popular "Books to the Ceiling" nursery rhyme from his book *Whiskers and Rhymes*. The verse is:


Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard my the time I read them.


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The love of learning,
the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

≈ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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My books
surround me,
enlighten and astound me,
protect me, and connect me
to the universe
around me.


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Twenty-six letters, a solid foundation.
Throw in some squiggles to add punctuation.
Not very many, I'm sure you'll agree.
So, what can we build with these?
Well, let's just see.

Letters make words, punctuation makes pauses.
Finely-tuned rhythms of phrases and clauses,
Sentences, paragraphs, fill up the pages.
Books fill up libraries - thoughts through the ages.
Ideas and concepts, philosophies grow.
How many are there?
I really don't know!

Twenty-six letters, in pixels or ink.
Not very many, but enough, don't you think?


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"I am whelmed by your eptness."


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