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Jewel Box in the Sky,
originally uploaded by maxiesphotos.

Finally, I think I've got a clue on how to post a picture, although I had to delete a blog under my other goggle account to make it work. Luckily, I wasn't that attached to that one, since it was the accidental blog I made under my real goggle account instead of to the special ihcpl blog (yes, we don't wish to mix lives here...)

I love this photo, which is called the "jewel box" photo recently taken by Hubble and online at National Geographic.

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How Many is Too Many?

My friends tell me over and over that I must get rid of some of my books -- that if I've already read them I don't need them, and if I haven't read them then I don't need them, and who needs to reread books anyway. Au contraire, mon petits! What about the apocalypse? What about when I can't totter to the nearest library or bookstore? This way I'm set, prepared to huddle up in a chair without electricity and read by the light of the moon, while everyone else is using their computers for a paperweight. So what if another bookcase is going to require serious rethinking about space?