[Publib] Finky RFID

[Sue Kamm]

I'm surprised that hasn't shown up on the lowlights film played in many ballparks.
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>From: Lise Chlebanowski <lchlebanowski at avondale.org>
>Sent: Sep 5, 2006 1:50 PM
>To: Nann Blaine Hilyard <nbhilyard at zblibrary.org>, publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: RE: [Publib] Finky RFID
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>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
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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")
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[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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Your friendly CyberGoddess and Councilor-at-large,
Sue Kamm
Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000
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