Off the Mark

So it seems it is one of those headaches.
I’ve gotten almost no sleep, must move very slowly, and am seriously dreading my backpack. At least it isn’t a class day. Of course, the old college catalogs that I’m working on are not going to help either.
When I got up this morning I tried [...]

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I took myself out to the Blind Pig this evening for some reading and beers. I enjoyed a couple draft König Ludwig Weissen while sitting outside.
I read some of my Database System Concepts book (Silberschatz, et. al.) for Saturday’s upcoming LEEP “weekend” oncampus class and an article by Svenonius, “An Ideal Classification for an [...]

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It looks as if I may have just successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4. I’ll hold off on the self-congratulatory “hurrah” until I see if things really did go well.
Along those lines, please let me know if anything is odd.
Crap. I think I had done something with my feed…. I’ll have to see [...]

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Thank you (again) Blake. I decided to try and get some blog-related maintenance done today, like backing up so I could upgrade my WordPress install. I downloaded the new version quite a while ago but never got upgraded.
I went to connect to my domain with my SFTP client and no luck. All [...]

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execration n. 1.c. Utter detestation; intense abhorrence. OED, 2nd ed. 1989.
Last night I had the pleasure of the company of five of our new “1st years” at The Blind Pig for beers and conversation (Jim, Natalie, Megan, Margaret and Jake).
Now, it is not the new students who I consider to be an execration, but the [...]

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I went to take a look the quiz Liz at LibraryTavern posted about yesterday, but I just wasn’t in the mood to display that I am supposedly 67% Seventies Girl. Oops!
But I did see the Smurf Name Generator and couldn’t resist. And once I had my new Smurf name firmly in my electronic [...]

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Today while I was finishing up some copy-cataloging of 2 issues of Patria, a journal about José Martí’s writings, I was given a present. [Editorial aside: I consider it a wonderful world when a former nuclear missile site-based Cold Warrior can help make writings about a Cuban "revolutionary" available.)
Seems we have a patron interested in [...]

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This one’s for Jason and in honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Richard had a Pirate party Saturday night. I was at a loss for a costume so I ended up adapting an old Army PT shirt. My letter sizing and spacing was a bit off so what was going to be [...]

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FRBR is a fairly complex concept. In some cases, that is a complete understatement! [Short version from LOC. Long version from IFLA (pdf).]
Much work has been done to date, but it has been mostly restricted to prolific authors and composers and works with many expressions. This is important, as this is [...]

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NOTE: Feel free to ignore this post. It is a compilation of all the posts I have written (that I can find) on the topic of interdisciplinarity. I need to collect them in one place as I begin on my project for LIS590TR Information Transfer and Collaboration in Science.
Uses and users of information [...]

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