Munden's Bar

This lady is, and those that supported her are, in my eyes, heroes.

She had no idea what she was letting herself in for. The full collection of Lunar Orbiter data amounted to 2,500 tapes. Assembled on pallets, they constituted an imposing monolith 10 feet wide, 20 feet long and 6 feet high.

The mountain of tapes was just part of Evans' new burden.

There was no point, she realized, in preserving the tapes unless she also had an FR-900 Ampex tape drive to read them. But only a few dozen of the machines had been made for the military. The $330,000 tape drives were electronic behemoths, each 7 feet tall and weighing nearly a ton. full story

allyn pointed us at this article on anarchist librarians and the Ministry of Reshelving and I thought that certain people on my flist might appreciate it being passed on.

Which reminds me, have the librarian-minded persons I know read Sean McMullen's Souls in the Great Machine yet, which stars duelling female librarians in a renaissance-style post-apocalypse Australia some of whom who eat mice on toast for breakfast? I wonder if Sean will be over this year for Conspiracy II?

I have the (possibly mistaken) idea that there are also those on my Flist who would find the discussion fd_midori started recently on her LJ about improving the taste of male ejaculate interesting.

Turns out that I have some time to fill in between work end and 8pm this evening, anyone want to hang out in a city bar or similar for a couple of hours?