[nycbug-talk] the list

[Isaac Levy]

So has anybody ever seen 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'?  My dad's favorite  
movie growing up:

http://tinyurl.com/3ot9b
-or-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JKU7/103-6106010 
-4422206?v=glance

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Seriously, I think we should really just give the books to the folks  
that want them, and they'll float around nicely on their own...  Mark's  
got a good point- anyone stepping foreword to manage a Library project?  
  Though a good idea, even putting books in the mail takes time and  
energy.

Before I'd said I'd hold onto the books for distribution, but I've got  
NO mind to manage checkouts etc..., but I know who does- the New York  
Public Library.

With that, I don't believe we, NYCBUG, can be nothing but pale in  
comparison to the fine New York Public Library, and a quick online  
search of the Library even shows they have one of the titles Dru's  
bringing (and likely many of them, there's a lot of classic stuff in  
there):

http://tinyurl.com/68sfj
-or-
http://leopac1.nypl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp? 
session=10961E9J8993F.438&menu=search&aspect=basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20& 
profile=dial- 
-3&ri=11&source=149.123.198.84%40%21dial&index=GW&term=Automating+Unix+a 
nd+Linux+Administration&x=11&y=11&aspect=basic_search

Tons of killer, classic titles, all for the same price as an AOL CD.   
Perhaps not as fast on the draw as a bookseller, (they don't seem to  
have Dru's book, YET), but the really classic good stuff, they have.

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If this becomes a problematic issue, we could likely just donate the  
books to the NYPL directly, insomuch as we pay taxes for them to manage  
checkouts- but a nicety of user groups is being around the flow of free  
goodies, and sharing the knowledge, (book reviews, etc...)

Also, the more reviews we post to our online Library and abroad,
http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Library&SUBM=57
The more publishers like to give out more hot-off-the-press books!   
Seriously folks!

my .02?, and my Library Card tossed into the ring...

Rocket-
.ike


PS- come to think of it, the public library has 'The Gods Must Be  
Crazy',

http://tinyurl.com/6ddue
-or-
http://leopac1.nypl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp? 
session=10961E9J8993F.438&profile=dial--3&uri=link=1100002@!P141612@! 
1100001@! 
1100087&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1&source=149.123.198.84@! 
dial&term=The+gods+must+be+crazy&index=TL


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P.S. My email address has changed with the incorporation of my  
business, though structuredsystems email will continue to reach me.  I  
can now be reached at:

isaac at diversaform.com
http://diversaform.com