[MD] I saw something good on tv, the other day

[John Carl]

Ok, I know, shocking.  It was at my bro's house, flippin through channels I
saw "google books project" at the bottom of the muted talking heads and so I
stopped and tried to listen.

I say tried, because my brother is going through some serious and recent
relationship trauma and wanted to talk about it.

Which I wasn't all that patient for, since by "recent" I mean the last 25
years with the same thing over and over and by "relationship trauma" I mean
this narcissistic diad he's got going with his wife where its all drama, all
the time, and you can't fix any of it because that's what they continually
choose....

But anyway, the program was on CSPAN2 and was a discussion about the google
books project, the troubles they were having, and the vast criticisms of the
academic world... you know how fussy librarians can be, and evidently google
is really getting a lot wrong.  Like dates, descriptions and even mixing
covers up.  And if that's probably the worst thing right there, I mean if
the covers don't match, what are people gonna do?  I mean, everybody knows
that in the real world, the cover is how we judge the book.

I'm intrigued by it because D-Q University has a big library of Native
history, literature and art.  California Indians were of a denser population
and more numerous tribes than anywhere else on the continent, but at the
same time had a unique mix of factors which relegated them quickly to
"unworthy" status.  "Diggers", was the epithet aimed at them.  Inflection
and attitude rhyming with "niggers" which tells you lots about the white
society in those days.

I contacted google books, and got a form response requesting more
information.  The gist of the communication is that they are way overwhelmed
with the project they took on.  Which was also the point of the academics
who were ranting, but hey, somebody has to chase impossible fantasies, or
what is life for?