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Entries from April 2006

Order of the Serpentine

April 29th, 2006 · 3 Comments

  Order of the Serpentine    Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.
I’ll admit that this is is extemely sad and pathetic, downright sexist, patriarchal and just plain f’ed up all around; but, this is the funniest shit I’ve received in the mail in years!
I mean the fact that I got this is [...]

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Finishing up, or heading down the home(work) stretch

April 29th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Yesterday afternoon I finished up my Indexing paper that was due at 3 PM today.   Being pleased with myself I IM’d Jenny to see if there were any libations in the immediate weather forecast.
I headed out to meet her at Crane Alley at 5ish.  We hung out till 7 when she had a dinner date [...]

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Tags: Education · Librariana · My Life

Poetry? Verse? Maybe just heartfelt crap.

April 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

If anyone finds this offensive I’m blaming Jenica for reminding me that it’s National Poetry Month.  What she recently said goes double for me: "Much to the horror of several dear friends, I don’t really "do" poetry.  It makes me twitchy and irritable."
I most certainly do not "do" poetry.  I rarely ever read it; although [...]

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Tags: My Life

It WILL NOT end the same as last time…

April 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

OK.  The map of the revamped Fairlawn Village (actually they are giving it a new name) clearly shows that my building is being torn down to make way for one of the condos to be put up.  It is why I have to move this summer.
So. WTF. Are. People. On. My. Roof. This. Morning. Making. [...]

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Tags: Education · Librariana · My Life

Excuse me

April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com

Life (or these quizzes) truly is a joke sometimes.  Sure there’s some truth, ok, maybe even a lot of truth to this, but it does not work out that way.  My reaction to this is the same as ranger’s to her horrorscope this morning.
Speaking of the ranger, [...]

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Tags: Games

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates

April 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off

Well, not exactly ‘brand-new,’ although they may as well be.  I got my Rollerblades almost 7 years ago now, at the time of my divorce.  No shiny new sports car for me. 
I strapped them on twice back then I think, for about 5 minutes at a time, and not once since.  I also have [...]

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Tags: Games · My Life

Do research libraries have a purpose?

April 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

"Do research libraries have a purpose?"  That, is the question.  The follow-up question is, "Do educated people in positions of ‘power’ have a clue as to what that might be?"
Yesterday I read Karen Calhoun’s final report to the Library of Congress, "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools," and [...]

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Tags: Current Affairs · Librariana · Society · Web/Tech

The book as experience

April 21st, 2006 · 6 Comments

Peggy Johnson, in her editorial in the current Library Resources & Technical Services [50 (2): Apr 06], summarizes Thomas Frey’s ten trends affecting the development of libraries.  Frey is the exective director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute.  The article cited is "The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation."
Now, I’ve seen some intelligent [...]

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Tags: Books · Librariana · Society

Looking for a Buddy of My Own

April 19th, 2006 · 1 Comment

"The Buddy System" at defective yeti.
So, at some point, feel free to take a Buddy. Or
don’t: whatever works for you. But it’s a scary world out there, and
sometimes a Buddy is just the thing you need to make it seem a bit more
manageable.

Found at Jane’s place, A Wandering Eyre, where she is about to become [...]

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Tags: Society

Congratulations! Your archive satisfied all the tests we performed.

April 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

Woohoo! 
I finished crosswalking my MODS records into simple DC and then re-uploaded my static repository page.  I timorously pasted my page’s baseURL into the box at the Open Archives Initiative - Repository Explorer and clicked on ‘Test the specified/selected baseURL’ and crossed my fingers.
Yes, yes.  I know it passed before with one DC record [...]

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Tags: Education · Librariana · Web/Tech