Friday, October 19, 2007

Unusual Request

A patron called and launched into a mile-a-minute diatribe about computers. Apparently hers wasn't working, and she was quite devastated. No one else was waiting for my help, so I sympathized and let her rant. At great length. And most of it didn't make any logical sense; her computer clearly wasn't the only thing not working.

She finally gets to her question, which was: "Can you go to the website of the doggie daycare I use and look at the webcam to see what my dog is doing?" Um, yeah, that's what librarians are here for! Like I'd be able to recognize a dog I've never met in a small, fuzzy (ha!) webcam feed anyway. It turns out her computer was just fine, but the webcam was down. Yeah, I checked.

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