David Brent 📚

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Recovering #hospitality professional now working in the tech industry. Husband, boy dad, #Mizzou 🐯 alum, 🥨 lover, MoT ✡️. Novemberist.

Based in NW suburbs of #Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Talk to me about #books #movies #sports #food #running #Jeopardy #Disney °o° (among other things). My header image is an avatar for my to-read list. I drink (occasionally) and I know things.

I brake for #DadJokes.

Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1524883-david
Current BookThe Life Impossible by Matt Haig
Current AudiobookInterior Chinatown by Charles Yu
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sjvn12h ago
Make mine dark chocolate.
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John Scalzi6h ago
It's nice that the big news today was about two people getting engaged.
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Terri Garland15h ago
Today is a great day to post the Chicago flag.
#Chicago
David Brent 📚9h ago
My weekly Tuesday 2:30PM CT meeting is the most "This meeting could have been an email" meeting ever. 😡
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Dad Jokes1d ago

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#DadJoke #DadJokes

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David Brent 📚2d ago

#3GoodThings

I finally got that phone call from HR I've been waiting on for the past couple of weeks. New role starts September 8.

The 9yo is off to a good start for the school year. His teacher sent a nice note saying that he's the first student in 4 years to get max results in their crop regeneration project.

Looking ahead to Labor Day Weekend when my town holds its annual community festival, and the weather looks nice for once. Usually it's unbearably hot and miserable.

@3goodthings

David Brent 📚2d ago

Clouds.

#SkyPorn #Clouds #Weather #photography

David Brent 📚3d ago

Death, taxes, and my wife asking me a question within 45 seconds of me putting my earbuds in to listen to my audiobook.

It's like she KNOWS. 😯

#WeekendThoughts

David Brent 📚4d ago

Charles Yu writes interesting books... I think. I've only read one and that was over a decade ago, but I have four more (now three) on my TBR. Interior Chinatown was one of them. It's definitely a unique exploration of Asian stereotypes in pop culture.

#FridayReads #Bookstodon #AmReading #CharlseYu #Fiction #Books #Audiobooks

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Leon BambrickAug 15
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
Show threadScottrossiAug 15
@secretgeek i can smell this picture and i love it!
Show threadMelloAug 15
@scottrossi @secretgeek Never been in one. What does it smell like?
Show threadScottrossiAug 15
@crisps @secretgeek books and imk and paper i guess, its a smell i equate with love because all those books are usually well read, dog eared and bookmarked! i love it! the best bookshop i was ever in was here in pennsylvania, it closed years ago but was next door to a new age shop so ithad that incense melange scent! i miss that place!
Show threadSnark Week GlobalAug 15

@crisps @scottrossi @secretgeek

It's more often called library smell. If you go to a local library, they will have many books with accurate descriptions of this smell. And you can smell it yourself there as well, as the name may have given away.

These small old bookshops have the same smell, but it is more intense, because their books are on average further along the colonization processes that aid microbial decomposition.

Show threadRoss of OttawaAug 16
@crisps @scottrossi @secretgeek the dominant smell I noticed is usually mildew. But it's not overpowering, just a soupçon, so it remains pleasant and brings back nice memories.
Show threadScottrossiAug 16
@ottaross @crisps @secretgeek agreed!!!!
Show threadcwicseolfor (has moved!)2d ago
@ottaross @crisps @scottrossi @secretgeek Some vanillin from the aging paper, as well, which is sweet, warm, floral, almost a little oaky. Like the books remember being a forest.
Show threadRoss of Ottawa2d ago
@cwicseolfor a good description. There is a bit of that in there.
Show threadMx. Eddie RAug 15
@secretgeek
Stay on target, Red Five, don't get distracted!
Show threaddrukacAug 15
@silvermoon82 @secretgeek
"Oh, I'm definitely here to get lost in distraction. "
Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.Aug 15
@secretgeek Reminding me that it's been way too long since I visited Uncle Hugo's (which I'm pretty sure this isn't as they always favored vertical orientation on the shelves proper, with duplicates in stacks on the floor).
Show threadMab_813Aug 15

@secretgeek

Looks nice, but what if you're moving in a wheelchair or with a stroller?

Show threadDaniel Carkner🥀Aug 15

@Mab_813 @secretgeek

agreed
there's a bookstore here in Vancouver that has this level of mess and they've been getting in trouble with the fire department for years
https://www.straight.com/arts/macleods-books-faces-day-of-reckoning-with-vancouver-fire-department

MacLeod’s Books faces day of reckoning with Vancouver Fire Department

Owner Don Stewart's glorious clutter came as a result of an arson fire next door to his former location.

The Georgia Straight
Show threadMsMeropeAug 15

@carkner @Mab_813 @secretgeek

that was my 3rd thought:
1. oh wow, how neat!!
2. they need to have a half off sale
3. OMG, if that ever catches fire. I would think the fire dept just automatically "goes defensive" on that and tries to protect any exposures. No way they are sending anybody interior. (talk about "know your target hazards" 🙄 sheesh!)

Show threadDaniel Carkner🥀Aug 15

@MsMerope @Mab_813 @secretgeek

what do you mean sending anybody interior? just out of curiosity

and yeah I love a good overflowing bookstore with rare goodies but as a library person I also understand how weeding and collection management are important heh

Show threadMsMeropeAug 15

@carkner @Mab_813 @secretgeek

fire personnel typically know the buildings in their "first in" area.

Firefighters would already know that that building was a hazard:

access and egress is restricted due to all the aisles being full of books.

There is no good way for a firefighter in full turnouts and SCBA to navigate those aisles without knocking stuff over and possibly cutting off their exit route. Then... add dragging a fully charged fire hose through those stacks. Not gonna work.

Once you start adding water to that? Those books become water logged and heavy - shelves may fail.

Heck, if those shelves aren't sturdy and well secured? a stream of water out of a fire hose might be enough to knock those shelves down. - again, another firefighter entrapment issue.

So firefighters would already know the building's risks. No firefighters would be inside that building.

As you know paper burns quickly, and would produce a lot of smoke: it's usually the smoke that kills people not the actual fire itself.

Show threadMsMeropeAug 15

@carkner @Mab_813 @secretgeek

The first arriving crews might force the front door, see dark, black smoke down to the floor, back off, and call for a 2nd alarm.

Most likely for a building like that? The truck companies would set up a master stream and just soak the building from above.

Show threadDaniel Carkner🥀Aug 15
@MsMerope @Mab_813 @secretgeek wow
... Thanks for the explanation 🫣
Show threadMsMeropeAug 15
@carkner @Mab_813 @secretgeek
you're welcome
I might spend too much time with firefighters...
Show threadRobin BartonAug 15
@secretgeek I adore used book stores. When you are done with a book release it back into the wild for others
Show threadLudwig VielfrassAug 15
@secretgeek “Stay on target.”
Show threadferricoxideAug 15
@secretgeek

People with lousy aims shooting lasers at you?
Show threadreallyJimAug 15
@secretgeek Even more chaotic than the one near me! And great description with the trench run!
Show threadEnema CowboyAug 15
@secretgeek This reminds me of the beloved Haslam's book store that never re-opened after COVID-19. https://www.haslams.com
Welcome to Haslam's Book Store

Show threadCurtis McHaleAug 15
@secretgeek I wish we had one where I live. I keep thinking about starting one, but the investment is huge.
Show threadJoe Brockmeier (@jzb)Aug 15
@secretgeek Which book store is that? It looks familiar, though I guess you could take that shot in hundreds of book stores...
Show threadLeon BambrickAug 17
@jzb this is Duporth book exchange Maroochydore Queensland
Show threadKimberleyAug 15
@secretgeek I've known so many book shops like this that image is so familiar and comforting. I can almost smell it
Show threadJoyceHumphreysAug 15
@secretgeek I do love a second hand bookstore.
Show threadThe TurtleAug 15
@secretgeek "use brute force, Luke!"
Show thread𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙖 ☄Aug 15
@secretgeek I know some book stores near me but those are all academic books
Show threadgermanioAug 15
@secretgeek ...so exciting!
Show threadPedro Quixote ‽ aka MultiVaxAug 15
@secretgeek Absolutely
Show threadUrban JarvidAug 15
Stay on target!
Show threadHalla RemptAug 15
@secretgeek Yes. That looks perfect!
Show threadMaximilian Overdraft, Esq.Aug 15

@secretgeek

I like used bookstores with vast stock, but I also appreciate when they organize their shelves, and provide accessibility to their customers.

Also I can't go in. Not often. My TBR's are too vast already.

Show threadTenguAug 15
@secretgeek They're all so thick. ​​
Show threadmoggieAug 15

I could not bring myself to go in there, even if I knew they had something I wanted.

@secretgeek

Show threadRoss of OttawaAug 15
@secretgeek there's a book called Illustrated Womp Rats right at the end, for a quarter of the original cover price!
Show threadsomcakAug 15

@secretgeek Agreed!!

That's how I felt at @BonnettsBooks

Show threadKChernecky For DemocracyAug 15
@secretgeek Where is this? It looks magical ❤️
Show threadKatAug 15

@secretgeek Intense flashbacks to the legendary Gould's bookstore in Sydney.

When the old pinko kicked it, the new owners sorted the books! They put them on shelves, in predictable order.
Apparently it's still in business, but they must have found a new market.

Gould's Book Arcade

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Atlas Obscura
Show threadMagical CatAug 15
@secretgeek I see more a treasures labyrinth here....
Show threadJohn RobinsonAug 15
@secretgeek Wonderful!
Show threadTrèsFluke 🍁Aug 15
@secretgeek Well put
Show threadTrèsFluke 🍁Aug 15
@secretgeek I can't shake him!
Show threadStarravenAug 15

@secretgeek

Use the Force, Luke!

Show threadPetra van CronenburgAug 15
@secretgeek tagging #bookstodon and @bookstodon for this photo.
Show threadMx Autumn Aug 15
@secretgeek I can smell this photo. 
Show threadPaul SomeoneElseAug 15
Oh the obssessive in my wants to get out my bar code scanner and start cataloging.
But I could probably do that and leave them in this "file pile" physical
location management.

location: "floor in front of case X ..."


@KatS@chaosfem.tw

Show threadDawn Tåke 🌙 Aug 15
@secretgeek
Not a ton of spine stickers. So they aren't stocking from library bag sales.
Show threadSemitonesAug 15
@secretgeek one time it was like that, but also somehow like "too many cats, not enough fresh air", if that makes sense.
Show threadGMRaphiAug 15
@secretgeek great shot!
Show threadBob ThomsonAug 15

@secretgeek If you’re ever in Glasgow:

https://strathclydetelegraph.com/2017/02/14/glasgows-best-bookshop-voltaire-rousseau/amp/

Glasgow’s best bookshop – Voltaire and Rousseau

By Mat Johnstone  Let’s start by undermining our whole premise: Voltaire and Rousseau is not the best bookshop in Glasgow. Scotland’s should-be-capital city is full of excellent booksellers and pur…

Strathclyde Telegraph
Show threaddummzeuchAug 15

@secretgeek

Oh yes, those were the days. I used to look forward to visiting "The Bookswop" on Lanzarote every vacation. It's no longer the same though since the original owner died. And I am no longer into dead tree edition books as I used to be either.

Show threadFerrus Aug 15
@secretgeek Your neck will be thankful that you don't have to turn it 90 degrees just to read the book titles, at least
Show threadShufei 🧮Aug 15
@secretgeek “Khooopuurrrr… I have you now!”
Show threadLarge Format ProjectionistAug 15

@secretgeek

God no. Horizontal books shelving is a crime against humanity.

Show threadLoren KohnfelderAug 15
@adamshostack Threat modeling the bookstore might be more complex than the Death Star!
Show threadMary MazzoccoAug 15
@secretgeek