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On display from August 11 to September 21, 2024 in The Sunroom at Central Library, opens a new window, Deep Cuts. About the exhibit “Deep Cuts is a series of works created from the need to physically, emotionally and spiritually remove grief from myself after the tragic loss of my father in 2014, and my […]
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Posted on Friday, August 2nd, 2024 at 6:46 am. PT Written by Jim Dalrymple Dave and I are back after a few weeks off. We talk about my wonderful trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, get an update on Daves eye operation and dig into some of the new Apple Intelligence features Apple released in its latest […]
Is it actually august already?! Wow! Well welcome to a new month at the Oakland Public Library! Summer Reading is wrapping up and back-to-school season has begun. We’re also celebrating Black August and Read A Romance Month with staff curated booklists. There are HUNDREDS of free events happening, so here are the highlights: The […]
Are you looking for a virtual bookish space to connect and share your love of books with? Look no further than Reader Rendezvous! Visit the Reader Rendezvous webpage for more information about the book club, how to join, your hosts and the monthly reads. AUGUST BUDDY READ MY LADY JANE by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton […]
All software is built atop a core set of assumptions. As new code is added and new use-cases emerge, software can become unmoored from those assumptions. When this happens, a fundamental tension arises between revisiting those foundational assumptions—which usually entails a lot of work—or trying to support new behavior atop the existing architecture. The latter […]
Here are a few highlights from June 2024 at RDPL! Green Roof Walking Tour Cynthia Pohl, Living Lands Landscape + Design,, opens a new window led a walking tour of two green roofs she designed at Berry Architecture + Associates, opens a new window and Catholic Social Services, opens a new window. These two biodiverse […]
To: “frank” <frank@postsecret.com>—-Email Message—– Dear Frank-I was at your book reading at Booksmith on Haight street for ‘A Lifetime of Secrets’. It was absolutely wonderful. You signed my book and at that point I had only flipped through the pages. Well, I sat down to read the book tonight and was overcome with shock, surprise and emotion when I saw […]
Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new. This evening, we arrived home from touring a new city — checking out neighborhoods and schools — and found the unspeakable had marched on our hometown. Filth and venom, spewing. The kids […]
ကိုယ်ဖန်တီးထားတဲ့ ကိုယ့်စာအုပ် အသစ်တစ်အုပ် အကောင်အထည်ပေါ်လာရင် အရမ်းပျော်တာပဲစာအုပ်ဖန်တီးနေတဲ့အချိန်တစ်လျှောက်လုံးရော…စာအုပ်လေး ပုံနှိပ်ပြီးလို့ လက်ထဲရောက်လာတဲ့အချိန်ရော….အရမ်းစိတ်ချမ်းသာရပါတယ် စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ထွက်ဖို့ အချိန်အရမ်းပေးရ၊ အရမ်းအားစိုက်ရသလောက် သူဌေးဖြစ်တဲ့အလုပ်မဟုတ်ပေမဲ့ ကိုယ်စိတ်ချမ်းသာရာ ကိုယ်လုပ်နေရတော့လည်းပျော်ပါတယ်ကိုယ့်စာအုပ်လေးတွေ ကြည့်ပြီး ပီတိဖြစ်နေရတာ အခုနောက်ဆုံးထွက်ထားတဲ့ စာအုပ်အသစ်ကတော့ #ကမ္ဘာတစ်လွှားခရီးသွားအတွေ့အကြုံဆန်းများ (My 101 Travel Bucket List Experiences) စာအုပ်ပါ။ နုမြတ်ရဲ့ စတုတ္ထမြောက်လုံးချင်းစာအုပ်လည်းပဲ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ 📖 ပထမဆုံးရေးသားထုတ်ဝေခဲ့တဲ့ လုံးချင်းစာအုပ်ကတော့ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၄ နှစ်က ထွက်ခဲ့တဲ့ “ဂျင်ဆင်းမြေရောက် ကင်(မ်)ချီနေ့ရက်များ”အမည်ရှိ ကိုယ်တွေ့ကိုရီးယားခရီးသွားဆောင်းပါး စာအုပ်ပါ။ ပထမဆုံးရေးသားခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့ ခရီးသွားဆောင်းပါးလည်းပဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ခရီးသွားဆောင်းပါးရေးသူ၊ Travel Blogger နဲ့ စာရေးဆရာတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်အောင် လမ်းဖွင့်ပေးခဲ့တဲ့စာအုပ်ဆိုလည်း မမှားပါဘူး။ ခရီးသွားစာပေလောကထဲ ရောက်အောင်ပို့ပေးနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ပထမဆုံးခြေလှမ်းပဲ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ဒီစာအုပ်ကတော့ အမှတ်တရတွေ အများကြီးရှိခဲ့တဲ့ စာအုပ်၊ […]