Title of the day

New books again.  Ohhhh.  Today I think we have card sharks trying to find the perfect system:
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Filtering.  Come on, can't you just see them in the tuxedos in the swanky hotel.  Cary Grant perhaps.  Daniel Craig?

A lovely slim volume, classic lines from Morgan&Claypool Publishers.

Sean Connery?

One ping only

In the summer our library changed from Meebo (which had been successful and therefore sold and put to death) to LibraryH3lp for use as our online reference interface.  I miss Meebo's calming blue colours, LibraryH3lp is elblanco boring.  I miss the squishablity of the conversation windows that allowed me to put my conversations 'down' out of sight if the conversation has paused or stopped.  But what I missed most about Meebo was the comforting little 'pong' it made when letting me know someone was calling.  LibraryH3lp screeched.  It was painful.  It was frightening.  I had to turn my speaker way down.

Then one coffee break not too long ago I popped over to another branch and was talking to a co-worker who was doing online reference.  Screeeeech.  "Oh," she said, "my submarine is calling.  And there I was, suddenly on the bridge of the Red October, with Sean Connery asking me for 'One ping, one ping only.'  I have turned my speaker back up a bit.  And I am happy.