Off the Mark

Unfortunately, most of my movie watching is no longer at the wonderful Normal Theater [How many of you have theaters in Wikipedia?]. We do have two “art” theaters here in Champaign, but they are not the same. They certainly aren’t non-profits, and the snacks are much more than a $1 each.
Most of my [...]

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Let me begin by saying that I had a wonderful “Christmas.”
I put Christmas in quotes because, as it has been for a long time, Christmas is really a couple to a bunch of Christmases at different places over what may be a several week period (only 6 days this year).
It was great to see almost [...]

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I know I have questioned the value of these lists in the past, but remember that often questioning is a means to learning.
Now my list is going to be pathetic compared to many others because I mostly read articles, but here it is nonetheless:
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights - Deborah Rudacille [...]

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Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable.
I recently finished this little, but powerful, book [OWC]. Actually, I believe it is an excerpt from a much larger work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited and introduced by Robert Lekachman (Penguin Classics, 1994) [OWC].
I bought this book in the Penguin Books . Great Ideas series. This is [...]

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As some of you (may) know, I am not a big fan of reading challenges. Nor do I do resolutions. You may also know that currently I do not read many books (as you will see soon enough [future link]); although I do have a pretty good theory about why my reading is [...]

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I got tagged by my friend, jennimi, a few days ago.
It has taken me a while to decide on what to reveal; sorry Jenn! This sort of ties in to many of the issues which caused me to “withdraw” somewhat recently, thus I was a bit “careful” about what to put here. I had [...]

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Vintage RDA: 100% Total Recylced Intellectual Content
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.

Visual metaphor? Let’s hope not!
While this photo may not accurately reflect my views of RDA, I could not resist taking these photos after seeing this brand of toilet paper at our local diner. Look closely…

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The 62nd Carnival of the Infosciences is coming to town on Monday, January 8th. This means posts from tomorrow, 25 Dec 06 through (early) 7 Jan 07 will be eligible. So, get to writing yourself and please feel free to send suggestions.
I am currently “reading” approximately 130 library-related blogs. There are 100s more [...]

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I have rarely been as excited to be locked out of where I work than at 8:58 AM this morning. So sweet! While I have no doubt that I could use 3 hours pay, excitement was the emotion of choice.
I stopped at Merry Ann’s diner and had a 3rd breakfast–an actual hearty one this [...]

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If you are a Flickr contact of mine, you might know that I have lately been scanning some photos (just a few, all told) from my photo albums. This has been, and is, odd for various reasons.
While the photo albums are “in order” (chronological), they aren’t perfect. For one thing, I’d often remove [...]

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