Fellow Food Geeks, Rejoice

Alton Brown, food network star and author, has left the building... well, network but not before writing the final installation in his Good Eats series. Entitled, Good Eats 3: The Later Years, Mr. Brown again offers his recipes in a format that is part graphic novel, part encyclopedia, feeding both body and mind.

Chanterelle Foraging Season

The fall rains have begun and that means chanterelle foraging!

To help get you started check out these books:

Mushrooms, wild and edible : a seasonal guide to the most easily recognized mushrooms by Vincent J. Marteka

All that the rain promises and more : a hip pocket guide to western mushrooms by David Arora

The complete book of mushrooms by Augusto Rinaldi

Edible wild mushrooms of North America : a field-to-kitchen guide by David W. Fischer

Mushrooms of Northwest North America by Helen M.E. Schalkwyk

Beaverton Library Map - where is everything around the library?

View Beaverton City Library in a larger map

Felons and Ex-Offenders - Job Hunting Resources

More than 5,000 sentenced prisoners are released from state or federal jurisdiction in Oregon correctional facilities each year, in figures from 2008-to present according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin. People who have done time and now have legal histories have an uphill battle if they search for work. Often they fall through the cracks and end up in the same kinds of troubles as before.

A man was searching for felony friendly job listings at the library and I had no good leads and decided to give him a referral to Worksource Oregon which did publish a list of felony friendly employers, but it was not online.

I gathered these resources however in the process:

List of Felony Friendly Employers Dated March 2011

Get to know your State

Oregon Transparency is a state government website all about helping you to understand and know your state government.

Information includes:

Money coming in

Money going out

State Workforce

Get acquainted today!


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Steve Jobs 1955-2011

For many people the passing of Steve Jobs will mean many things. Reading about Jobs and the genius of Macintosh and Apple can teach us many things about leadership and marketing.

Here are some books that I would recommend:

The Macintosh way/ Guy Kawasaki
An out of print classic, one of the best business books.
Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson
New-supposed to come out in November--but will they postpone it's release?
The Little Kingdom / Michael Moritz
(first published in 1984, then revised) Readable book about the history of Apple and Macintosh.

Are you an Alternate History buff?

Are you intrigued by questions like: What if the Nazis had won World War II? What if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated in 1963? What if Dracula actually existed and married the widowed Queen Victoria? These and many other questions have been asked- and answered- in a wide variety of alternate history books, stories, and even some non-fiction works.

If you're interested in alternate history, parallel worlds, and "what if?", you should check out the website Uchronia.net. It's chock-full of lists of alternate history series, anthologies, and references, and it's searchable too. There's even a list by date of divergence (when the alternate event took place), so you can look at works based in a particular time period: dinosaurs, Columbus, Kennedy, the Civil War, etc. For the alternate history fan, this website is a must.


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