Off the Mark

I’m sitting here surrounded by computers broadcasting a distance ed class on Reference.  But most importantly I’m making this post on my brand new toy, er…tool.  Wirelessly too!  Signal’s kind of weak here though so I have to be careful and save often.
I got my 12" PowerBook today!  A little late for ALA but well [...]

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"My oh my, what ever shall we do?"
OK, I only heard this explicitly once at ALA Annual, and it is a paraphrasing, BUT I heard it implicitly in a few more instances.  Caveat:  I cannot speak for any LIS schools and can only speak about the one I attend.  But prior to going to ALA [...]

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I am home from ALA; actually I got home last night (Monday) at 11:30 PM.  After wandering up State St. and down Michigan Ave. and a few other places, eating a not-so-good meal, and taking a look at what was scheduled for today I decided to just come home. 
I would’ve had to pay another [...]

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Well, despite the assurances of some knuckleheads at the campus computer store, my PowerBook has NOT arrived and it was NOT at the warehouse to be picked up AND it isn’t even due in until July the 11th!  Thanks guys for the lesson in screwed-up customer service!
But, I would like to give a shout out [...]

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Terse but true.  I have finished Middlemarch, and I recommend reading it.
‘Ah, there’s enormous patience wanted with the way of the world.  But it is easier for a man to wait patiently when he has friends who love him, and ask for nothing better than to help him through, so far as it lies in [...]

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MIT BLogger Survey thanks to Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian.

Would you like to be experimented on, participate in science, simply be a statistic, or take an internet survey that, for once, actually means something?  Then click on the above image and get thyself busy.

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Saturday, 25 June
9 - 11 AM  NMRT Conference Orientation
2 - 4  ALCTS-CCS Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment for Cataloging
6 - 8  NMRT Student Reception
Sunday, 26 June
8:30 AM - Noon  AACR3: The Next Big Thing in Cataloging (is it the same as ACRL or the follow-up?)OR  Are Subject Librarians and Endangered Species?To Save or Not [...]

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I was going to post my updated ALA schedule but that can wait.  Take a look at what I just found at a relative path Monkey vs. Tigers.
Check the video out that is linked from there.  Watch the whole thing.  Some crazy monkey is bullying the hell out of some teenage-looking tigers—dope slaps, ear and [...]

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When will I change (again)?  Please?
…Does he ever want to ask me whyThe boy feels strangeOh the boy has changed
…Can he make a new beginningDoes he even want to tryOr will he only let it dieThe boy feels strangeOh the boy has changedMelissa Etheridge, "The Boy Feels Strange," never enough

Walking home from work this evening [...]

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Been a nice day so far.  Both the kids and my mom called.  Jeremy’s at Fort Eustis, VA (Norfolk) and Sara’s in Rostock, Germany.  Finally got breakfast after coffee and the newspaper and then the phone calls. 
Made it out to the Lohmann Park to the frisbee golf course around 11:15 AM.  I played 12 [...]

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