[Publib] A brief respite

[Sharon Foster]

GREAT question! That kid is a budding scientist, for sure.

Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Technology Librarian
http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"




On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM,  <Backwage at aol.com> wrote:
> So today I got to play librarian.  I get a call from somebody who doesn't
> ask a labor standards question.  He says, "All right.  My son and I were
> looking at a book of the solar system and he said, 'Dad, all the craters on
> the moon are round.  If all kinds of asteroids hit the moon to make it that
> way, how come some of them didn't leave oval marks or long skids?"
>
> And I got them this:
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-are-impact-craters-al
>
> Ten minutes after that I had to explain to somebody how a penalty for not
> giving restroom breaks in California must be computed in the form of a wage
> and is therefore subject to taxation.  Back to the grindstone.
>
> M. McGrorty
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