A little library science humor (very little)

OK, my friends, which of these Dewey Decimal Classifications actually fits me the best? This little app came to my attention on Jim Del Rosso's Nascent Librarian blog.

Based on the letters of my name:

Roman Koshykar's Dewey Decimal Section:

111 Ontology

Roman Koshykar = 8531415985118 = 853+141+598+511+8 = 2111


Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology


Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.



What it says about you:
You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

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Based on my birth date:

Roman Koshykar's Dewey Decimal Section:

102 Miscellany

Roman Koshykar's birthday: 11/26/1976 = 1126+1976 = 3102


Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology


Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.



What it says about you:
You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

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Based on picking the number 5 as my favorite number, apparently:

Roman Koshykar's Dewey Decimal Section:

005 Computer programming, programs & data


Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works


Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.



What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

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They're all sort of accurate, in that vague, newspaper-horoscope kind of way.

The next internet celebrity?

Well, hardly.

But, lost in all that's been going on lately was this fact I forgot to inform you all of: a photo of mine was chosen for inclusion in the Schmap guide to Memphis. It's of the ornate lobby in the Peabody Hotel. Check it out here, in it's proper context (the winning photo itself is shown above).

OK, so I didn't really win anything, or even get paid. That's what happens when you deal with a Web 2.0 startup. Well, that, and I'd never in a million years pretend to be a professional photographer. They found my photo on Flickr, because I tagged it with "memphis" and "peabody." Let that stand as a lesson to tag your photos descriptively!

Why is the number 350 so important?

As in 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Recently, top climate scientists including NASA's James Hansen, set that level as a "red line" that human society should set as a target to lowering atmospheric CO2. We're already above this critical level of atmospheric CO2, indicating that the problem of climate change is not one of the future, but of the present.

I'm usually no activist, but I understand science, and I believe in the power of science to persuade people to view the world in a dramatically different way. If collective action is your thing (and maybe this is one time when it should be), check out 350.org for ways to get involved.