Amazin' Amazon...

[Diane CBPFC]

[....]  I may have to order another DVD today. Any recommendations?

Because I live with guys I have watched “Olympus has Fallen” and “White House Down” – I laughed out loud (LOL) through both of them thinking at times they must have been intentional comedies. The story was practically the same in both movies and during both shows I thought the best solution to the pickle they were in would be to bomb the White House – but that would have made both shows short 60 minutes.

So I recommend them if you enjoy a good laugh.

[Diane CBPFC]

I should note that when I say "watched" - I did wander about a bit during both of those movies.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Amazon prime, here we come.

 

You won't regret it, Sandy. Kev's the man!

Does anyone ever even try to sign a legible version of their signature in these wee machines? I gave up trying years ago, and now do something that more resembles a swastika than anything my bank manager might recognise. Farcical!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

[....]  I may have to order another DVD today. Any recommendations?

Because I live with guys I have watched “Olympus has Fallen” and “White House Down” – I laughed out loud (LOL) through both of them thinking at times they must have been intentional comedies. The story was practically the same in both movies and during both shows I thought the best solution to the pickle they were in would be to bomb the White House – but that would have made both shows short 60 minutes.

So I recommend them if you enjoy a good laugh.

Thanks, Diane - I shall investigate further on Rotten Tomatoes. I do enjoy a laugh, but I tend to be a trifle wary of good ones.

[Diane CBPFC]

It would be a shame to spend money on either of those titles - see if you can't borrow them from the library.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

What's a library? 

[Diane CBPFC]

Remember those musty, stinky places filled with dog eared old books, and stern ladies telling you to “shush” when you were a kid? Today’s libraries are nothing like that. With your library card you can order in books and DVDs and CDs from other libraries from the comfort of your home computer and have them ready to pick up at your own branch. I get moves as new as the current year.

This week, after unsuccessfully trying to sign up to “next issue” 100 top magazines for only 10 bucks a month – you need an iThingy or at least Windows 8 to use that service, I found out I could get 50 magazines the same way for free from my library. Big titles such as National Geographic and Reader's Digest, lots of top  ladies magazines like “O” and Martha Stewart – good science magazines too.  I put 12 of the 50 in my free account which gives me access to back issues too. I don’t imagine I would have time to browse more but if I want them I can take them.

When you borrow an e-book from the library it expires (usually 2 weeks) if you don’t renew it – but the magazine subscriptions do not expire. 

The newest things will be having equipment for people to use such as digital 3D printers.

I run a monthly photography club at our library.
 
Amazing things are libraries.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

You're right, Diane. They're nothing like the used to be, and oh how I wish they were. After a Xmas bout of weeklong studying in my local library, I was almost putting in a letter of complaint at the noise in the reference library. How I wish the "shoosh" women had been there. Sadly the internet is to blame. Libraries are now the hub where local government (quite rightly) supplies PC access to those without. Unfortunately, as they ask repeatedly how to use them, the noise level goes up. We also now have the local government offices in the library too, so the actual amount of traditional library space is slowly being eroded away.

I know times change, and I never used it as much as I should have, but I genuinely miss the old traditional library.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I finally got around to watching '12 Angry Men', after all these years. It was a bit of a shock to suddenly realise how much of my life was shaped by Juror #8 over the past few decades.

Diane, I used to use libraries a lot in the pre-cyber era, when I had to draw things or people I wasn't familiar with. Cue a fifteen minute drive across town, followed by a half hour search for perhaps a couple of books containing photographs of what I was after, if I was lucky. Often I wasn't, and made the fifteen minute return journey empty-handed. These days, a couple of seconds typing, followed by a click or three, and there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of pictures of whatever I need on the screen before me.

I'm delighted that libraries still exist, have evolved, and good people such as you and your photography club are keeping them alive. I loved my local library as a kid borrowing all kinds of books, but I'm afraid I've not been inside one for at least a dozen years.

[Diane CBPFC]

When I was a kid there used to be a mobile library that came to our housing estate - that was a fun way to push books on children. 

The thing is, you could still take advantage of a library card without having to enter the library (well except for signing up for the card the first time maybe) – without going in the doors, you can download eBooks and access all kinds of newspapers and magazines as well as more specialist stuff such as access to finding answers to questions and travel reports and language programs. Things you can do online anyway but often have to pay for.

[Egg]

Still like to go to a shop.........if you can find one!   

Just saying........

[Diane CBPFC]

It's because of you non library users that poor lady on 56 UP lost her job.  :'(

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I'm not taking the blame for those library orgies and her crack cocaine habit! 

[Diane CBPFC]

She did look a little tired.