Comments on: The Watercooler http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/ Your neighborhood news source Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Deseo http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10549 Jennifer Deseo Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:43:54 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10549 Hmmm ... Maybe Buddy had a point: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701287.html?nav=rss_metro/md" rel="nofollow">"Police spied on activists in Md" (The Washington Post)</a> Hmmm … Maybe Buddy had a point:

“Police spied on activists in Md” (The Washington Post)

]]> By: Springvale Roader http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10475 Springvale Roader Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:31:13 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10475 "... other than a professional Arlo Guthrie look-a-like, I have no idea about Buddy’s occupation." LOL. Hey, have you noticed how you never see Arlo Guthrie and Buddy in the same room together? “… other than a professional Arlo Guthrie look-a-like, I have no idea about Buddy’s occupation.”

LOL. Hey, have you noticed how you never see Arlo Guthrie and Buddy in the same room together?

]]> By: pj http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10468 pj Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:13:08 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10468 I'd like to see some cameras placed at the intersection of Ellsworth and Fenton St. That area is getting out of control.I'd also like to see some cameras outside the SS metro station.There seems to be a lot of criminal activity occuring there lately. I’d like to see some cameras placed at the intersection of Ellsworth and Fenton St. That area is getting out of control.I’d also like to see some cameras outside the SS metro station.There seems to be a lot of criminal activity occuring there lately.

]]> By: nosestuckinabook http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10459 nosestuckinabook Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:53:18 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10459 Jennifer, thank you for fixing the link. Springvale Roader, other than a professional Arlo Guthrie look-a-like, I have no idea about Buddy's occupation. Jennifer, thank you for fixing the link.

Springvale Roader, other than a professional Arlo Guthrie look-a-like, I have no idea about Buddy’s occupation.

]]> By: Jennifer Deseo http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10448 Jennifer Deseo Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:13 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10448 I had no idea that Buddy was such a bookworm! Perhaps we should name the new library after him. I had no idea that Buddy was such a bookworm! Perhaps we should name the new library after him.

]]> By: Springvale Roader http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10446 Springvale Roader Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:58:28 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10446 I too have never failed to see "Buddy" whenever I visit the SS library. I do think that we should commission a wax figure of him so that if he ever moves on, or eventually passes on, his presence can continue to exist in the library forever. Question: what does he do for a living? Nosestuckinabook (great screen name, by the way): yer link doesn't work. <em>Editor's note: The link has been fixed. -- JD (Jul 17, 2008)</em> I too have never failed to see “Buddy” whenever I visit the SS library. I do think that we should commission a wax figure of him so that if he ever moves on, or eventually passes on, his presence can continue to exist in the library forever. Question: what does he do for a living?

Nosestuckinabook (great screen name, by the way): yer link doesn’t work.

Editor’s note: The link has been fixed. — JD (Jul 17, 2008)

]]> By: nosestuckinabook http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/comment-page-1/#comment-10445 nosestuckinabook Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:53:37 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/07/17/watercooler-14/#comment-10445 I don't think that I've ever been to the Silver Spring library and *not* seen Buddy, sitting at one of the tables between the A/V section and the reference desk, eyeball-deep in some sort of printed material. As much as I can appreciate his spirit of civil uppitiness (at least somebody's paying attention at those meetings), cameras in public libraries have nothing to do with monitoring what its patrons are reading, and everything to do with incidents such as this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201777.html I don’t think that I’ve ever been to the Silver Spring library and *not* seen Buddy, sitting at one of the tables between the A/V section and the reference desk, eyeball-deep in some sort of printed material. As much as I can appreciate his spirit of civil uppitiness (at least somebody’s paying attention at those meetings), cameras in public libraries have nothing to do with monitoring what its patrons are reading, and everything to do with incidents such as this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201777.html

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