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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 simply too [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

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 [...]

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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; [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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," [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: Education · Librariana · Web/Tech