Lavender sky
Apr. 22nd, 2009 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoJust watching the library start to clear out prior to closing time. Looking out the glass wall to the north, over the park and adjacent corn field, and the sky is lavender. Honest. Not even sunset yet, but must be some trick of the light and the density of cloud cover. Or I'm gone loopy and seeing things, which is always possible I guess.
Managed to get data imported into MySQL but the results are not yet satisfactory. Because Microsoft SQL Server exports the dates and booleans in a form not understood by MySQL, it looks as if I'll have to do some editing on the exported file first. Otherwise, it's looking hopeful. This time I can normalize the data and eliminate some redundant junk and unused fields too, since it's no longer being used by any code other than what I'm writing myself.
I really hate doing original cataloging for videos, but there's no one else to do it. It's worse when the video is a "gift" from someone we aren't supposed to offend and it's a homemade production to push a smarmy religious message. I so want to put subject headings on like "garbage films" and "timewaster videos."
Scheduled the first full week of May off, yay!
And in other news, folks going to FCN, have fun and stay safe.
Managed to get data imported into MySQL but the results are not yet satisfactory. Because Microsoft SQL Server exports the dates and booleans in a form not understood by MySQL, it looks as if I'll have to do some editing on the exported file first. Otherwise, it's looking hopeful. This time I can normalize the data and eliminate some redundant junk and unused fields too, since it's no longer being used by any code other than what I'm writing myself.
I really hate doing original cataloging for videos, but there's no one else to do it. It's worse when the video is a "gift" from someone we aren't supposed to offend and it's a homemade production to push a smarmy religious message. I so want to put subject headings on like "garbage films" and "timewaster videos."
Scheduled the first full week of May off, yay!
And in other news, folks going to FCN, have fun and stay safe.
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Date: 2009-04-23 05:36 pm (UTC)this particular item though is more like "self published." It does a flimsy attempt at looking like a professionally produced item, with printed labels and all that. However, it was made in 2001 and we are the first library in the US to actually catalog the thing. It's a video equivalent of one of those bible tracts that people pass out. You know, the ones made like little comic books in which some character gets a bad scare and ends up repenting his "wicked" ways? Or else sometimes he doesn't repent and gets run over by a bus and goes to hell? Supposed to scare you into running to the church to confess or accept Jesus or whatever. It's pretty pathetic stuff.