Thing 12?

Thing 12 is not there.  Trust me, I searched.  And searched.  And searched.  I looked everywhere for Thing 12- but no, it just skips from 11 to 13.

So I searched Google.  And old blogs.

Finally, in what may very well be a fitting definition of paradox, I found that Thing 12 used to be learn to create your own search engine with Rollyo.  Ha. But it is NOT there now.  Now either someone else has the same dry sense of humor that made me choose Sinatra's "The Last Dance" as my first dance at my wedding, or they have removed this for some other reason.

I went ahead and looked at the Rollyo site, and decided that the reason probably just was that it isn't really that practical.  And I would never use it anyway.

Here is why- everything is already, at this point, of course, tagged and labeled and bookmarked and defined and linked together seamlessly, right?  All the information and metadata is there!  Hypothetically, of course.  All of my information is still on 15 different tabs and 2 different browsers and piles of papers and notes and books all around me, because that is how I like it.  I feel more at home that way!  But this isn't about me, it's about....okay.  It is supposed to be about me.  And I don't need a special personal search engine, because there is a search tab on all of those sites.  They built it right in for me.  So there.

Either way, the idea that I spent all that time searching for an entry on how to build a search engine made me laugh.   Still, I think it would have been nice if SLA had put some kind of explanation for why 12 was missing- unless they really did just want me to search for it.  Librarians are a funny bunch, after all...