Dead Sexy, If You're A Geek

[woodwardiocom]

Jay Walker's Library is Treh Hot.

(buxom_bey was vastly amused when I came to find her and show her that the pic on page 5 is flopped left-for-right. There are multiple clues, but I noticed 'cause of the Easton Press edition of LeGuin's The Dispossessed in the background, which I also own.)

In other news, limited edition "Black Ops" Risk map causes salivation.

(To promote the revised rules, Hasbro released Risk: Black Ops, which has the same rules as the new edition, but a different physical design in a terribly hardcore style. With "History is written by the victors," on the cover. Oh yeah.)

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

WANT!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

omg yum.

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

ZOMG - WANT!

That is awesome... Oh, if I only had the money...

[drwex]

For what? The library, the contents, or Risk: Black Ops?

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

yes. yes it is.

Who's Jay Walker, though? I know a Jay Walker in Providence, but I doubt it's the guy who owns this library. The Jay Walker I know barely owns a beat-up Chrystler.

[tikibar]

Founder of priceline.com, amongst other things. dotcom billionaire (apparently less after the bust).

[bluegargantua]

Is Mr. Walker's library ever open to the public?

Not that it should be. Because if it *was*, I'll be arrested for humping a Sputnik.

mmm...Spunknik....
Tom

[mizarchivist]

Hey, this is just the sort of scenario that makes me use this icon!
Because, woah and dude and stuff.

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

OMG... I am rather unhappy that they aren't selling the black ops version. *THAT*... I'd buy. New rules sound good, but that board is amazing...

Addendum: Oh NO he di'n't!

[mizarchivist]

"and (open, with Post-it flags) an original copy of the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle, the first illustrated history book"

POST IT NOTES ON A NUREMBERG CHRONICLE?! W!T!F! Yes. that was deserving of all caps. I'd be shouting it in person.
Made of stupid and WRONG.

oh, why--- why you ask?! m-f-ing post it notes leave a sticky residue on any surface it touches. Doesn't come off. All standard, modern adhesives are EVIL in the realm of preserving books.

Why, yes.... I *do* feel strongly about this.

Re: Addendum: Oh NO he di'n't!

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

Totally. I'm not a fan of marking up any book, but definitely don't gunk up the 500+ year old priceless texts, or I might have to brain someone with the meteorite fragment.

Re: Addendum: Oh NO he di'n't!

[mizarchivist]

It's what- something like an hour later and it's all I can think about. I must take my job a little too seriously.

Is this one of those XKCD moments of "Someone is wrong on the internet"?

Re: Addendum: Oh NO he di'n't!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

"Someone is wrong on the internet"?

No, no, he's wrong in real life, too.

(I had a similar reaction, but it was modified by, "I don't actually know enough to know whether post-it residue will harm a text, and gee whillikers, no one would be THAT stupid.")

[caulay.livejournal.com]

On the matter of the image on page 5 (which is also the one that induces such harsh language from the normally sweet and kind mizarchivist), I thought it looked wrong when I first looked at it.

After a bit, I realized that the spines of the books were on the wrong sides and so they must have flipped it. Why they flipped it, I have no idea.

[(Anonymous)]

His History of Computing collection reminded me of the only thing I have in our library which is similar: our gallery of obsolete technology, which includes:
A portable AM/FM radio,
A late-era AM/FM cassette Sony Walkman (with digital tuner),
Two different Sony CD Discmans,
A Canon SureShot film camera,
An elderly Canon PowerShot digital camera.
I wish I still owned my 1985-era Sony AM/FM Walkman (with dual headphone jacks so a friend can listen too!), and my circa 1990 AM/FM Sony Walkman "Outback" edition, which was extra-rugged, with a desert-brown color scheme. I had several other Walkmans, including a Sony AM/FM cassette Walkman with auto-reverse! --Nathaniel