#20 With my 20g diet complete i can relax on some fatty 2.0 servings

I can't say i enjoyed alot of the stuff we went over due to the fact that it wasn't in my personal interest. I know the goal was to enhance our knowledge of tools and resources out on the web to better interact with our patrons and have a better understanding of how to accommodate there needs. But i know from personal experience that alot of times people already know how to use the tools they have and need. Those that don't understand aren't to keen into learning about new tools as they tend not to use them as frequently as those that do. With that in mind i didn't gain much of any personal satisfaction or knowledge that will help me in the future. Nothing we did really suprised me or got me interested in anything new. I doubt i will ever go back and use any of the services i signed up for when doing the exersizes. I don't even think i will be using the google mail account either. It will all go stale and delete itself most likely. I don't think there was any way of really improving the program. For the way it was presented it was easy to use and understand everything that was given to us. I believe they did a great job in having the video's and all the information given to start us down the right path. The only thing i think that matters is the individual person and the ability to want to explore these tools and resources. To want to use them as a long term service. If another program was offered it would have to depend on the content provided and if it was something i was interested in. If not than i was decline the chance to participate. That way a spot would be saved open for someone that may have the interest in it. I may sound pretty repetitive in the reflection but it stands true. Why bother with taking a class or learning something that you don't have an interest in. Right now i'm thinking on buying a pvplayer. I have been reading up on those like they are going outa style. I have been researching them daily and trying to find the trends they follow. Hopefully i will make a good decision on one that will fit my needs and last long enouph to where i won't have to upgrade anytime soon. Also i read up about once a week on new computer parts. I have been looking at building a new computer so i want to know my options. So maybe next time before a program like this rolls out maybe there will be a "poll" on what tools and things people may want to explore or learn about. But thats my reflection on it. May not be the best and most positive but heck you asked and i provided.

#19 Snacks...check. Drinks...check. Logging in...Failed!! try again later... !@#$%... stupid games.

Gaming was brewed into my soul and engraved upon the back of my eyes. I don't remember much of my child hood other than a blur of regristration numbers and logins. That being said i was pretty much a gamer kid. As soon as i was able to get ahold of a computer and play online games the console world died. First on-line game i can remember playing was trade wars :) it was a BBS(bulletin board system) game where you flew a ship around trading to make money to buy bigger and better ships and create planets to make your place in the universe. It was all text based so you had little to no graphics other than what they could create with letters, numbers, and symbols. I also about that time started playing earth2025 and utopia. Both were text based games also. It wasn't until i started paying Ultima online that i dived into the world of on-line gaming. I know it's not the same small potatoe games we were supposed to play. But i'm not into yahoo games and playing solitare. I went for something a little more stimulating to my tastes. I didn't really have to research any other on-line gaming sites as i have played enouph of them to know where to find them and how to play them. I do however like to get some of the smaller games onto my phone like bejewelled and tetris. recently however i have strayed away from playing video games and rarely play them anymore. I do pick up a game every so often to kill time but i have yet to bury myself into another on-line game. I'm trying the "real life" game where i try to socialize with real people. It's not as fun as saving the world from orcs but hey i can do that in my spare time.

#18 Can you tell me how to get... How to get to my home... Won't google show me the way home...

I love using google maps especially since i can pan around and look at the surrounding areas. I can even follow the path i should be taking and it keeps loading the new areas for me and i can almost make sense of how to get to where i'm going. I even use it on my cell phone since i have interenet on my phone. So basicly i have a map of everywhere anywhere. until i get lost and lose cell service and end up crying on the side of the road like a lost child without a cookie and wondering when the next vehicle will arrive to save me and bring me home. maybe feed me dinner depending on how long i was left alone lost. But hey i guess thats why we print up our driving directions these days. It just makes getting lost that much harder. Unless of course you find yourself in a hurry and forget them at home and half way down the road figure out you really don't remember the third turn to make and it's getting dark and very hard to read the road signs and that sense of getting lost just seems to be overwhelming. But hey thats what that cell phone was invented for to call ahead and ask for directions or re-look up the map. Isn't it great having those maps to use.

#17 My avatar can beat up your avatar

So we can create on-line avatar's or our virtual self? so is that like saying if i don't like my first life i can go create a second? I have known a couple people to immerse themselves into second lives. I kinda fell into the same thing but mine was more in an on-line game. Take for instance everquest or WoW. You create a character to represent yourself in this on-line world and you go about making it your life. Pretty soon i was wondering if i could really live off of summoned bread and water and maybe if i was lucky a goblin wouldn't attack me in my sleep. I was a resident of a guild that thought it was more important to kill on-line monsters than go to work or school. Some of them lucky enouph to be retired or still living at home had the ability to play all day and expected the same from everyone else. Those "hard core" people i doubt ever saw the sky or thought day time only existed if you clapped your hands twice. I don't know if i would ever try anything "second life-ish" again. But who knows the on-line life is much more enjoyable and i can look like a cool gnome to boot.

#16 Gizmo's and Gadget's the on-line tool box

I'm not much of a fan about signing up for a million and one different sites especially to use free tools that are already provided on most computers i use. As for explaining these tools to other people most are in to much of a hurry to want to hear about them. If it's not instant gratification it's not worth the hassel. If most sites provided there service without a hitch or a signup i think people would be more inclined to use there services or tools. As for now i think i will keep my own tool box hidden away and locked up to save myself when i'm stranded on the side of the information highway. If i don't have what i need i will just borrow some from another person and than add it to my collection. Thats what being a tool is all about right? getting used?

#15 If i search for my lost socks will google find them?

I think Google has become the mainstream search tool and most people including myself don't use anything else... why? I really don't know… Other than I have become accustomed to using it. It’s simple, quick, and for the most part has done a decent job of finding me what I need. As long as I don’t go more than a page out. In which case the search is destroyed and made irrelevant. Almost like it finds a trace of what I was looking for turns it around backwards maybe adds in a few extra words and posts some sites. As for the meta searches I think the mamma one is just funny and I might try using it more to see how it compares. I know that you can do searches to test them. But I’m not one to look them over side by side. I will just have to field test it when I need it.

#14 If a podcast is played in a forrest and no one is around does it make a sound?

i'm not a fan of podcasting... probably because i don't have anything important to listen to. i did play a couple of the other library pod casts just to hear a couple and some are good and some are bad. But i'm guessing they all carry there own heart filled message to the masses. Some would say that if you download and listen to a pod cast you might not have to look anywhere else for information. I would say that would be a usefull tool to have. especially since it carries more of a interaction than just reading the information. I did find some of the teen podcasts and the skits they did very entertaining. As for subscribing to them and listening to them everyday i doubt i'm up for that kind of commitement to them. Maybe one day when i find something that suits my interests and i will listen to someone else tell me about it on-line.