[Publib] Finky RFID

[Lise Chlebanowski]

The most important game EVER to be blown by a fan! 

Lisë Chlebanowski (Whose personal email is Cub_Fan98 at hotmail.com)
Library Manager
Avondale Public Library
328 W. Western Ave.
Avondale, AZ   86323
623-478-3105
623-478-3809 Fax
 
Now Reading: Madame Mirabou's School of Love by Barbara Samuel

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nann Blaine Hilyard
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:58 AM
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Yes, that game WAS Vitally Important to Civilization. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman 

Nann
@the library in Zion, Illinois
Who would welcome the opportunity to make a Cubs version of this: 
http://www.lowellquiltfestival.org/welcome2.shtml 
(scroll down to "Reversing the Curse")

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:41 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Finky RFID


But with any technology the most pertinent questions may be What are the
unintended consequences of its use?  and How may it be abused?  -- Joe
Schallen

At PLA (I think...one conference blurs into another) I attended yet
another workshop on Hot Techno-issues and How the Youth of America who
have Never Known Life without Hi-tech Whatever use Technology, *and* one
of the points made was that, while almost all who are younger than we
aging Boomers are use technology enthusiastically and furiously, they
are often clueless about consequences.  Not just clueless--the word
"consequences" probably isn't programmed into their brains.  I am not
picking on people who are younger than I, and neither was the speaker;
also, some of the rest of us are clueless.  The example used was the guy
at the baseball game (seems like it was Vitally Important to
Civilization game, and not your average game) several years ago who
intercepted a high-flying ball, thereby messing up the whole thing,
scoring, etc.  The offender had to be escorted from the park; within
minutes or hours, people knew where he lived, what his name was, where
he worked, details about his family, etc., all because of hand-held
devices, chatty cell phones, e-mail, et al.

While we all laughed--as we were supposed to--at the visuals and
incidental remarks that accompanied the story, the fact is that there
could be psychopathic people out there who could've tracked the man
down, killed his family in cold blood (Truman Capote, where are you when
we need you?)...and therefore, you see, who among those carriers of
information about the bad man in the bleachers even thought that what
they were doing might have led to the death of a semi-innocent baseball
fan?  (I exaggerate to make a point...though in today's wacked-out
world, perhaps "death" is not an ill-chosen word.)

Anyhoo, Joe's comments about consequences reminded me of all of the
above.  Those of us who are parents warn our children about consequences
of actions all the time, or something like all the time, but I'm not
sure that adults are necessarily better, at all times and in all places,
than some of the kids they/we admonish.

John Richmond, who is admonishing us all from the...
Alpha Park Public Library District
3527 So. Airport Rd.
Bartonville, IL 61607

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