habitually probing generalist

Happy Valentine’s Day mrl-005 — Feb 9, 2000 In 2000 I made my first Valentine’s Day CD which I gave to six of my female friends. I also made Valentine’s Day CDs in 2001-2003, with 2001s being a double CD. They went to anywhere from 10 to 16 women, always increasing. I have not made [...]

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So we got us one heck of a blizzard and tomorrow has already been cancelled. Well, not tomorrow exactly, but you know what I mean. I do hope the wind dies down though so they can get the roads cleared before Thursday morning. See, I have to travel an hour away because I have a [...]

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My speakers don’t sound right. That is, they sound much better than they have for months now, but they still don’t sound right. Sometime after moving across town one of my main channel speakers (you know, the stereo pair) developed a crazy hum, crackle, horrible … shitty sound. I called Polk before Christmas and found [...]

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I doubt that I’ll ever get to this level of excellence—in fact, my reviews probably shouldn’t even be called reviews—because I generally don’t put enough effort into writing reviews of movies or music. For me it is a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, I don’t do it because I’m no good because I haven’t done it [...]

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Just as I was about to head out the door and try and catch another bus, which I just noticed went by only 5 minutes late, I got an IM from Karla saying all classes at UIUC had been cancelled! I verified it on the University website and I IM’d another friend who had made [...]

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ChampaignWeather13Feb2007.jpg Originally uploaded by broken thoughts. It seems I got my wish for at least one storm during Birthday Month! I hope this bodes well for Birthday Month because, despite my best intentions and the loving recommendations of friends, I am having a hard time getting started on Birthday Month this year. Yesterday I tried [...]

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For the possibly two of you awaiting the rewrite of my critique of the Coyle and Hillmann article in D-Lib, and particularly for the wonderful folks who provided feedback so that I could do a better job, I am sorry. I do not know when (or perhaps even if) it is coming. For many reasons—most [...]

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While I have no doubt that none of you were actually waiting for this moment, I am fairly excited. Zotero, the new bibliographic manager from the folks at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, have released a WordPress plugin that embeds a COinS tag in each post making the content [...]

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I just put up a new header image on my single posts. This lovely slice is courtesy of my friend, Iris Jastram aka Pegasus Librarian. The full picture is available in here. And yes, I asked permission. Thankfully she said yes. Since I currently have the random image generator turned off, I figured I wanted [...]

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Update 19 July 2007: I wanted to add an update that I have been contacted by LITA and that official steps are being taken to preclude whatever disconnect happened in my membership from happening to anyone else. I have been personally welcomed into the fold and look forward to my future time with LITA. For [...]

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