http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7083 Teens who want to spend four plus hours a week volunteering at the library during the summer do tend to be a bit more.... academic than otherwise. (Confession I started my career as a summer volunteen; I was not the cool exception to this rule.) lizinthelibrary@idkfa.com (lizinthelibrary) Mercy General Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:54:20 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7083 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7081 If I was cool when I was 14, I would have said, "My favorite website? Well, my own, of course." Then I would have showed them that I had my own domain name, and a server, and I knew how to do programming, and then they would have been my girlfriend. Or none of that would have happened, and I would have just told them that I liked looking for game reviews and walkthroughs on Gamespot. They would then ignore me until their programming projects were due at the end of the semester. But by then I would have been finished, and was playing Half-life Deathmatch with the other kids on the computer lab LAN. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:12:48 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7081 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7080 Cody: R-Reddit, m'lady. Super Pretty Teen: Oh, I love Read-It! What's your user name? Sweating, Cody glances at his post history. Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) Mercy General Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:55:42 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7080 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7078 Work thing. We have teens at the library doing weekly projects for us, we call them VolunTEENs. (Librarians LOVE puns.) We have bought 3 Google Chrome books that we are putting through their paces to see if they are a feasible, cheaper alternate to the expensive laptops we currently buy for teen/public use. We have the volunTEENS testing them, trying to use them for normal stuff, trying to break them. Two teen girls are "working" (playing) on a chrome book for this project. One teen girl is SUPER pretty. They yell across the room to a fourteen year-old boy "Hey Cody*, what is your favorite website?" The boy's face - priceless. Pure unadulterated fear. He stammers while asking why they want to know. I left as they were explaning and before I heard his answer. But yeah, don't ask a teen boy that. Probably a valid test of our computers, but not the testing we are doing. *Names changed to protect the very sweet, hardworking teen boy. He would also be embarrassed to hear I called him sweet. lizinthelibrary@idkfa.com (lizinthelibrary) Mercy General Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:37:49 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7078&msg_id=7078