Dumpling in a Hanky

S reveals my terrible taste!

Lo-fi librarian tagged me as part of Information Overlords meme, and has therefore forced me to reveal my terrible taste in music. I admit it, I’m a pop princess, and have a disturbing love of 1990s pop at that. Fiendish lo-fi, fiendish! If I’m ostracised from society for this list, I shall blame you!!

So, the challenge was to name my top 5 favourite bands beginning with the letter ‘S’, so here goes…

Salt N Pepa – Lets Talk About Sex

This one is because my Mum used to delight in singing along to this any time she had me and any of my friends trapped anywhere, like in the car. I could claim that she was trying to encourage healthy discussions in that area, but realistically, she just enjoyed embarrassing lots of pre-teen girls.

Semisonic – Closing Time

I worked for a summer in America in a theme park, first as a landscape gardener, then as a ride operator when the bulk of the staff went back to school after the summer break. This song was the last one played every night, and was a sign for us it was time to shut up shop, and head off home. Happy days!

Sarah McLachlan – Ice Cream

So many of her songs that I love, but this one is just…fun! Also another from my American summer.

Scissor Sisters – Comfortably Numb

Is best heard at full volume in a club, so you can sing along badly and nobody will hear 😀

Sixpence None the Richer – Kiss Me

Makes me want to find a field to run through, trees to climb with a treehouse in them, and a swing to play on…

I would tag 5 other bloggers, but my brain is in meltdown, so I’ll just say that if anyone wants to do this, consider yourself tagged! 😀

More Facebook ad fun!

For entertainment, I sat and graded the ads I was getting for 15 mins again, refreshing them to see what would come up to replace what I’d marked as ‘irrelevant’.

The results, from their headlines:
Rachel Ray diet (twice), 1,000,000 people can’t be wrong (Pink Patch ad, this one is particularly repetitive, 8 times out of 12 this replaced an ad I’d removed by rating it irrelevant!), the Pink Patch diet (same as the other one, but different format…this company must have an impressive advertising budget), Floristry courses at Bournville College, the GI patch (yet another diet offer!), free Samsung Tocco, Poor history credit card (multiple), Call worldwide for a month (some sort of phone plan), free PS3 with T-Mobile, Home in Cyprus and Greece, Instant payday loan, free Samsung Soul, Jobs in Oxfordshire (twice), Want a PS3 for £10.92? (auction site ad), The best of Dagenham, A few drinks tonight? (don’t know what this advertised, had website link but I didn’t go), birthday flowers, Bad credit history is ok, Non fault accident? (Ohhh, I could ‘claim today with Jim and Jane’!), Teeth whitening gel sale, Portugal, Sapin, Tenerife (travel company), Are you owed £2,000? (mis-sold loan payment insurance), Ibiza people meet (Ibiza social network).

So, what I’ve worked out from this is that Facebooks ignores any feedback on the ads it displays for you, and they’re mainly in a few distinct categories:

Weightloss / diet / cosmetic
Mobile phone offers
Loan / credit offers
Poorly targeted location-specific ads (Dagenham, Bournville, Oxfordshire, Ibiza)

It’s like being constantly subjected to mini-spam emails, lurking in the edge of your vision! I suppose it’s the price you pay to have a free service, but I wonder if they’ll ever offer a ad-free version, for a small fee?

And I still think Facebook’s trying to tell me something,in a not-so-subtle way….

Random library and book bits

A collection of some of the pretty / fun library related stuff I’ve bookmarked over the past few weeks…

Furniture and decorative bits, made out of those pesky, un-recyclable books:

Source

Elephant / bus / snail shaped bookshelves for kids rooms…funky!

Some fabulous, (and some insane) shelving / bookcase ideas here. My favourite is this one, the arrangement in the top right makes it look like a tree full of books: