Made a little mobile map for the #aadl summer game that lets you check off home codes as you find them: https://matth.org/aadl-map/

Looking forward to the next time the #AADL decides to put forth a millage to support the library.

The Ann Arbor downtown library bond millage proposal was defeated in 2012. Since then it has become abundantly clear that anti-library interests nationwide are aligned with the worst aspects of our society. "Fiscal responsibility" in this case was a cover for right-wing conservatism.

A decade later, it's time to do this again and do it right.

The 2012 #froghat story

https://www.annarbor.com/news/ann-arbor-downtown-library-bond-proposal-defeated-what-happened-what-now/

You found a Lawn Code on Packard St. Throw out your business and meditate

#aadl
#summergame

Playing the Summer Game at #AADL Malletts Creek. Achievement unlocked, "Malletts Creek Collector" badge acquired.

Note that the light at East Eisenhower and Stone School is out, and should be treated as a 4-way stop.

@alanhogg Just ordered a set of #AADL Seed Sampler postcards from the store, and I'm going to have to hustle to get some more points to pick up a few more things that I'd like including this year's shirt.

Visiting AADL branches by bike! Today: downtown to Westgate.

AADL did a video during pandemic. My route was a little different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QufMr9zZhY

The route outbound is uphill, but even with that, only 20 minutes. On the way back I detoured to hit a few parks in the Visit Every Park challenge.

One weird city sign. Virginia Park on outbound Liberty directs you to an apartment complex that has a "no park parking" sign on it. Better to move the sign back a block.

#vep23 #a2parks #aadl

Yeah, but does your library have its own Kaiju mascot? #aadl #summergame

Player edwardvielmetti earned 6 Points-O-Matic points

#summergame #aadl

The Ann Arbor District Library's newsletter should be called. "The AA DL: The Downlow on Ann Arbor"

#AADL #AnnArbor

Back from #AACME, the "Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo", at #AADL downtown.

All my nerd friends were there - robotics (Pi Hi Samurai), ham radio (ARROW club), maker spaces (AHA and Maker Works), improvised electronic music (daveo), and working old computers + old games (a2retrotech). Plus pinhole cameras and much more.

Very nice to hear a din of bleeps and bloops, dits and dahs, amplified Slinky percussion, and Votrax Shakespeare, all in the friendly confines of the AADL Lobbytorium.

Via @michiganradio -

"Phyllis Michael Wong, historian, educator, and author of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s #UpperPeninsula, named a Michigan Notable Book"

on Stateside, Wednesday May 3 2023.

https://www.michiganradio.org/show/stateside/2023-05-03/stateside-wednesday-may-3-2023

book:

https://msupress.org/9781611864205/we-kept-our-towns-going/

#AADL :

https://aadl.org/catalog/record/10545465

of interest to @tim - unionization in rural garment workers.

Geraldine Gordon Defant, #ILGWU Union Organizer (p. 150), was a family friend

[ #yooper #ishpeming #gossard ]

Stopped by Record Store Day at #AADL. A bunch of vendors set up in the Lobbytorium with LPs, CDs, various other sorts of merch. I picked up a sticker but didn't carry anything home on my bike through the drizzle. Definitely in the spirit of the day!

[ #RecordStoreDay ]

#AnnArborBleepBloopCollective : The FIRST monthly meeting of the #A2B2C has been booked for:
Saturday, March 25th, from 2pm to 4pm, at the Ann Arbor District Library downtown branch "Freespace" room (4th floor)

Come with a laptop, and we'll get #VCVRack running, and we can start learning about modular synth fundamentals together, and make some noise!

Spread the word :)

#AnnArbor #Ypsi #ypsilanti #universityofmichigan #umich #aadl #eurorack #modularsynth #michigan #southeastmichigan

Putting in a request for Jonathon Stalls new book WALK at #AADL .

WALK
SLOW DOWN, WAKE UP & CONNECT at 1-3 MILES per HOUR
by Jonathon Stalls
Release Date: August 16, 2022
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

https://www.intrinsicpaths.com/walkbook

of perhaps interest to my old #WalkerTracker crew, cc'ing @sparkwatson @chrkrhc et al of interest.

#walk #pedestrian #aadl #books

Ann Arbor Argus, February 12, 1892, quote-tooting the Boston Transcript:

"The best way to keep a diary is to keep it clean. Never write in your diary, my son, unless you desire to be sorry at some future time in your life."

via #OldNews at #AADL

https://aadl.org/node/106293

@eikenberry

Looks like #AADL used to have some of these #otamatone things, back in the day

https://aadl.org/catalog/record/10259785

Ann Arbor Library is hosting Saenger Porcelain for an event next week. They could have included a photo of any set as an example of their work.

They chose to showcase a particularly nerdy tea set.

#startrektng #aadl

I'm hosting an #aadl event about #ai along with UofM at 6:30 tonight downtown. Should be an interesting discussion.

This is new...

#AADL #SummerGame

TIL the #AADL gives us access to Consumer Reports - https://aadl.org/services