Off the Mark

"Push it!"
The gaming generation’s answer to most everything is what that is.  And yes, it is overly simplistic—just like most of the writing about the current "younger" generations.
See, they didn’t learn logic.  Instead they learned video gaming because "learning resembles Nintendo more than logic" (EDUCAUSE review).  They didn’t learn protocol because "doing is more [...]

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Carnival of the Infosciences #4 has hit the midway! 
Laura had a small problem with a runaway elephant, but she got him under control and was able to open the gates to us normal folks.  Go check it out.
Christina over at Christina’s LIS Rants is hosting next week and she says "Bring ‘em on …. [...]

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Seems I may have actually written something intelligible to others, or at least the primary intended recipient, for once.  Yay, me!  [Other than academic work, which based on grades received I can only surmise that I'm writing intelligibly.  Of course, grades could also mean many other things or nothing….]
Joy has updated her lists of MLS [...]

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I’ve been quiet for a bit now, although not intentionally.  I’ve been reading my "standard" blogs and finding some new ones, thinking about many things, and have even started some posts that are languishing.
School’s started back up with all that entails.  Slight shift in job which is also in full swing with school in session.  [...]

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Today when I was walking in to school I met a friendly stalker.
A cat was creeping silently along as she stalked a tiny yellow butterfly.  When, pounce…as the butterfly flitted away and then circled back and flew a little diving run across the cat’s back in a "laughing in her face" kind of way.
Now I [...]

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Carnival of the Infosciences #3 is up over at Joy’s place.
Go check out the fine job Joy did on its 1st stop out of the home port.
Sorry I’m not more prolific here.  I’m really tired for some reason this evening.  I was falling out between 7 and 8, and now it’s almost 11.  Guess I [...]

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This evening I "attended" the 2005 A.M. Turing Lecture which was broadcast live over the internet from the University of Pennsylvania.  The UIUC Computer Science department was kind enough to put it on a big screen in an auditorium.  But they were also unkind enough not to advertise it at all to the broader university [...]

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Good news 1st:  I got the paper done and turned in about 1:15 PM today!  And, yes, there is that wonderful glow of the virtue of finishing an incomplete.  Onward to a new semester come Wednesday….
I will be taking myself out for dinner and a few quality beers tonight.
Now for the not-so-good news:
Last night I [...]

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Minor update (22 Aug 05): Added Raghav’s last name now that our new website allowed me to stumble across it.
Been spending quite a bit of time in the Civil War lately, but I’m about to be done.  I can’t quite say the paper is finished but it’s oh so close.
Tomorrow I’ll print it out, give [...]

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Photo courtesy of ishrona under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.
Carnival of the Infosciences #2 hosted by Greg at Open Stacks is now online.
Hop on over and check out some interesting, wonderful, and illuminating writing on a plethora of topics related to libraries, librarians, a literate society, library school, technology, copyright and others.
It looks like submissions [...]

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