Author Archives: bibliotrek

On College and the “Return on Investment”

I keep see­ing arti­cles about the “return on invest­ment” of a col­lege edu­ca­tion. The lat­est one warns that a col­lege degree won’t return your invest­ment! Or it will, but you’ll only make $400,000 more than a high school grad­u­ate over 30 years, instead of $1.2 mil­lion more, unless you are lucky enough to be pay­ing back …

18 July 2010 – 3:13 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants | Tagged | Comments (0)

An Open Letter to the Producers of LOST

Dear Damon Lin­de­lof and Carl­ton Cuse: I have been a LOST fan  —  devo­tee, even!  —  ever since the sum­mer after Sea­son 1, when I devoured the whole sea­son on DVD over the course of about 48 hours. Elec­tro­mag­net­ism? I’m there! Time travel? Bring it on! Alter­nate real­i­ties? Excel­lent! For the five sea­sons since then, I have watched every episode the …

13 April 2010 – 10:58 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants, reviews, tv | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Review: N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I’m not gonna lie: I picked up this book because of the cover. I was wan­der­ing through the library and it was fac­ing out on a shelf of new fic­tion. The col­ors caught my eye, and then I looked more closely at it and thought, “AWESOME, a woman of color is the hero­ine!” And, after fin­ish­ing …

3 April 2010 – 3:40 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

To Smartphone or Not To Smartphone

First-world prob­lems, I know. Begin­ning tomor­row, I’m eli­gi­ble to upgrade my Ver­i­zon phone. I’m think­ing of get­ting a smart­phone, but I can’t decide whether I should or not. On the plus side, they are shiny and I have wanted one for ages, and they’re so con­ve­nient, and I could really use a Map func­tion, not to …

31 March 2010 – 6:02 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in miscellaneous | Tagged | Comments (0)