Reading Ender's Game Causes South Carolina Teacher to be Suspended

Apparently a teacher in my home state of South Carolina was suspended for reading the Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction novel Ender's Game to her class.  And let me tell you I am shocked, shocked that this happened.  A book written by a Mormon shouldn't even be allowed in our state, who knows what salaciousness and could be in there.  What else might be lurking in our schools? Literate women? Succubi begone, I beseech thee!
Source Forbes

South Carolina Assistive Technology Expo

Thanks for the bad picture Android phone.

Had fun at the AT Expo yesterday.  Met a lot of nice folks and introduced them to our resources at the Center for Disability Resources at the USC School of Medicine Library.  My boss and I ate like killer whales at the buffet but also got kicked out of our nice dining table (It's for paying customers only and not Shamus who get free food tickets).

Tinker, RipTaylor, Soldier, Spy, Projectionist

This is the new La Biblioteca movie club.  Unfortunately it only has one member, me.  And this post is mostly a complaint and not a review.  Here it is- I have tried 3 times to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at Columbia's independent movie theater, the Nickelodeon, and three times I have been thwarted.  First time it was sold out- it happens.  The second time the projector broke and I waited for forty minutes for them to fix it to no avail-it happens.  The third time the film melted when the Focus Feature logo flashed and I waited for thirty minutes for them to fix it to no avail while the projectionist ran up and down the aisle like a younger, sadder Rip Taylor talking about how terrible he was.  Then they gave me a movie pass that was expired (I noticed later). That was too much.  Please Nickelodeon do not have an exclusive engagement with a supposedly awesome movie and then don't hire a projectionist for it.  Nor give out expired passes to overworked grad students with a five year old boy at home, meaning I have limited time and patience.  That is all.

ps I still like the place but can't wait for them to move to their new theater which I'm sure will be stuffed to the gills with qualified projectionists.