I recommend you read this column.
» My Gun Experience: Up Close and Personal | ABQ Journal by Leslie Linthicum / Of the Journal on Sun, Jan 13, 2013
My closest view of a firearm came on a dark street in Houston when I made the mistake of turning to look at the man who had been holding a 9 mm pistol to my temple and threatening to blow my head off. …
First, the bookstores die, then the libraries abandon books. Some child alive today will be a life-long avid reader who never holds a paper book.
I’m reading A Game of Thrones as an e-book. For the most part, I like e-books, especially for highlighting, note-taking, and searching. I miss knowing instantly and physically where I am in the book.
A couple of my books are available for Kindle; most are not. peace, mjh.
San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library by Eric Limer
Books, who needs ’em? Libraries? Not anymore they don’t. The first public, bookless library is coming to San Antonio soon and, possibly, to a (dystopic?) future near you.
The new book-free library, called "BiblioTech," is intended to open in the fall and is part of a an entire bookless public library system planned for the entire county of Bexar. And it’s not "bring your own device" either. The library will actually lend out e-readers (of an unspecified brand) for two weeks at a time. There will also be computers and the like, but no books, and presumably no card catalog (!) either.
San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library
It’s a new perspective.
Taft School Shooting: Teen Gunman Told Teacher Ryan Heber ‘I Don’t Want to Shoot You’ – ABC News
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)
Jan. 11, 2013
A California teacher’sbrave conversation with a 16-year-old gunman who had opened fire on his classmates allowed 28 other students to quickly escape what could have been a massacre.
Science teacher Ryan Heber calmly confronted the teenager after he shot and critically wounded a classmate, whom he claimed to authorities had bullied him for more than year at Taft Union High School.
Taft School Shooting: Teen Gunman Told Teacher Ryan Heber ‘I Don’t Want to Shoot You’ – ABC News
Worth reading.
» Common Sense Gun Reforms | ABQ Journal By Patrick Davis / ProgressNow New Mexico on Fri, Jan 11, 2013
Fortunately for New Mexico, our Legislature is about to convene and the issue of public safety and responsible gun ownership must be front and center. The public is demanding action and while we wait on Congress to debate, our Legislature can act.
I call on the governor and legislators to enact these and other simple common sense reforms in the first days of the session, pass them with an emergency clause so that they may be immediately implemented, and give our children a safer and brighter future in this new year.
mjhinton posted a photo:
I wish this picture were sharper, but I have to show it as is. www.edgewiseblog.com/mjh/photos/sometimes-youre-the-preda…
mjhinton posted a photo:
I wish this picture were sharper, but I have to show it as is. www.edgewiseblog.com/mjh/photos/sometimes-youre-the-preda…
