Originally to my mother who is a bibliophile who loves libraries as much as a person can.
This question was posed to patrons of the library today. Can you imagine Seattle without its libraries? I can. It’s actually made very easy by SPL itself. My local library shut down on Jan 25, 2025 until “Late 2026”. My closest library is Green Lake, a 1.5 mile walk each way. If you only go to the library twice every 6 months like I do, that isn’t that big a deal. If you need the exercise or have a bus pass, you can just spend the time. But even when my library was open, I found it to be a pretty minor landmark. Because I have Suzzallo, Allen, Engineering library, Math library, Music library, East Asian library, and libraries I don’t even know about I go there. I’m kinda spoiled for libraries. I do use the online features of SPL quite a lot – the audiobook, an ebook here and there, Kanopy, the newspaper access, and the search feature.
This dystopian vision allows us to consider what kind of world we want to live in.
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Hoy discutimos un event muy recente -- guerra en Siria.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on Dec 10, 2024.
This is bound to come up again as geopolitics is starting to become rather chaotic. I'm not saying anything about this event because I still have no understanding of it. That is why these paragraphs are here.
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This is the seventh podcast. Hoy discutimos una presidenta.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on April 6th, 2024.
This is an example of the sort of thing that makes the front page of Spanish Wikipedia, but not English Wikipedia. What is really interesting to me is the video included in the wikipedia page. On top of that we notice that they link to a podcast. I love to link spanish podcasts, so here is the link to La Encerrona!
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Aug 22, 2020
Melody 1: C E♭ G F G
Melody 2: C E♭ G F G C G F C
Chords: C7 C7 C7 C7 C7 F7 F7 C7 C7 G7 F7 C7 C7
Bass: CCC_C_CCC_
Bass synchronizes with measure after 3 repetitions (4 measures) by resting 2 8th notes.
Bass variation: CCF_C_CCC_ used once on measure 10
Hi hat: 8 open 2 open 1 closed 5 open
So…
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