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Because everyone needs a Bollywood-style number now and then.

Slumdog Millionaire's closing number, Jai Ho. And if anyone could tell me why the Pussycat Dolls have a remix of this... *snort* Is something wrong with Hindi? I think not!

Life, Book Request/Search, and Other Matters

Oddly enough, I am in a very mellow mood right now. And have been for a while now. This is noteworthy because, as those who've spent a large portion of time around me or talking to me know, I am stress. And worry. And so on. So the fact that right now, I'm mostly without it, is quite noteworthy.

I need to pick up things for a SCA projects. I need to finish the new kaftan for domnall and bag trousers. I need to pick up wool felt for coat appliques and cotton batting for the new set of fighting clothing I'll be sewing him.

Oh right, and I need to sew myself clothing for rapier! Woot! I'm actually rather excited.

Actually, in terms of projects, there are so many floating around in my head. I'm having to rein myself in for several reasons - a)I want to give them proper attention, b)right now, finishing my bachelor's is one of the most important things, and c)money. I'm by no means broke, but I'd like to concentrate on finishing up some things before I start others.

But that little ivory box in my medieval spanish book? The ideas! They abound!

By any chance, does anyone on my flist (and in Tucson) own a copy of Otfried Staudigel's Tablet Weaving Magic? I'm looking for it, and have placed a request to get it at the UA library through InterLIbrary Loan, but WorldCat turned up few copies...

Finally, we have Addressing The Followers The Day After My End-Of-The-World Prophecy Failed To Come True by Brian Dunn. From McSweeney's. Simply because I am amused.

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Personal Library Management Musings

Now, the one downside to LibraryThing, near as I can tell, is it's just books*. Well, that and the fact that there seems to be no checkout feature, which would be quite nice.

These two things combined are actually rather important to us - we've a decent DVD and a modest video game collection. Not to mention, well, a fairly varied electronics collection and a bunch of other stuff.

Now, I've got a LibraryThing account, and I picked up a CueCat as well. now i just need to upload stuff... I'm more than happy to have my library up on there, simply for the ease of other people to view. However, one of the things domnall wanted when we talked about getting a record of everything using software was that he would like a checkout feature - we frequently lend out DVDs and it's nice to know who's got what.

I may have found the answer to my problems.

Biggest downside - this little baby is Mac only. And I'd have to modify the CueCat to scan, though I can use Alia's built-in camera to scan...

Tempting, tempting...

*I am well aware that people *do* have DVDs and such uploaded.