26 Facts about Libraries - Neatorama

We love libraries! Borrowing a book is one of life's great pleasures, and a great way to get kids to develop a love for reading. John Green writes books, and he once worked for a library association. So who better to bring us a lot of trivia and stories about libraries? That's what you'll get in the latest episode of the Mental Floss List Show.

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Funny how terms spread around to mean so many other things. The local school moved the library, the student radio station, and the computers into one big room and call it the Media Center. When kids go to get a book, they still call it the library. If they go use a computer, they call it the Media Center. Meanwhile, the public library has a section inside called the Media Center, where they keep computers and TVs. So one is a Media Center with a library inside, and the other is a library with a media center inside.

My computer is a "media center" itself, and it has a section called the library, where the Kindle books are kept. Meanwhile, those big pieces of living room furniture where you put your TV, home video player, Xbox, and possibly a stereo, plus your DVDs or whatever, is sometimes called a "media center." We used to call them TV cabinets.

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I thought they are called Media Centers or something like that these days.

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*sigh* Bourbon is not pure alcohol, so it does freeze, but it has to be really damned cold. Since the writer was hammering the idea that it was really cold, I read that as another "it's really cold!" detail. If you're going to offer clues, try to get them right.

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1. A blind man as an accountant - suspicious.
2. If she was stranded, why did they have to canvas a 10 block area for her. She would have stayed in the same place - suspicious.
3. If bourbon does freeze as Artor states, the verbiage says it was just 'beginning' to crystalize - suspicious.
There is evidence that all 3 could have been the lookout.
Maybe the police should have looked for the other walkie-talkie.

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Most alcoholic beverages freeze someplace between -6C and -34C. Bourbon being about 80 proof, it's going to be nearer to that -34 and it's still probably going to take a while, even though at that temperature, frost bite can set in in about 5 minutes. There won't be any cats wandering the streets at that temperature. Water, on the other hand, will take about an hour to freeze at 0C. This suggests that if the entire search took half an hour, and then the questioning took place outdoors in the order written, the water might just be beginning to freeze. Within the realm of plausibility, anyway.

The real question, though, is why on earth ANYONE would go to the trouble of finding a bottle of bourbon and filling it with dyed water rather than just buy a bottle of bourbon. If it's that cold, and you're celebrating a jewel heist, wouldn't you rather have a bottle of whiskey handy?

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