habitually probing generalist

I got a call from the cable guy standing outside my apartment building today. [Short story: no buzzers on the building and the doors are locked. Guess I'm lucky I never get visitors.] Seems they had never turned off the cable TV, which he had done. “It won’t affect your cable internet and I’d be [...]

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Seems I snuck a bit more reading in yesterday; although I’ll leave the things I re-read out. I did manage to finish FRAD. Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 Levinson, Jerrold. “What a musical work is.” The Journal of Philosophy 77 (1), Jan.. 1980: 5-28. (JSTOR) Keep in mind that this is only my opinion and that [...]

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[NB: This post has been significantly edited, twice. It was almost abandoned [see this post for some context]. It is not meant to be harsh, nor personal, but I think it needs to be addressed. I also want to say at the outset that I respect Ryan and the things he writes. Follow to through [...]

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[Lisa has kindly pointed my faux pas in conflating the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed. Oops! Just goes to show that maybe I ought to be reading both more.] No, not just me, all of us out here in the biblioblogosphere according to Steven Bell in the Chronicle’s Inside Higher Ed. While I fully agree [...]

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Anyone have anything they want LC’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control to hear? Humble, little me is a registered attendee for the 2nd meeting which is on “Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data”. I can’t nor won’t make any promises, but if you have some thoughts you’d like epxressed I’ll see what [...]

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“Best Iris” Originally uploaded by broken thoughts. Over at my friend’s place, we’ve been having a discussion of how to sign off letters, emails, etc. She has settled on “Best, Iris” but was asking others for input and info on their practices. Being my typical goofy self, I suggested she just remove the comma. I’ve [...]

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This morning I actually got fresh, hot cookies straight from the oven for the 1st time in almost two years! I stepped into The Cookie Jar and saw that there weren’t any chocolate chip with walnut cookies and was immediately disheartened. Then I realized I was in a bit early and just perhaps…. Ed, the [...]

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One of the new places I have been hanging out online lately is in the LIS Students Ning. Ning is a sort of complete social networking package that people can setup for their groups. I believe that there is a Library 2.0 Ning and I imagine many others. This one is for “Students in Library [...]

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I had a quite interesting lunch today. Barbara M. Jones, University Librarian, Wesleyan University came to visit, and she took a small number of students out to lunch. The small number wasn’t her requirement; it was just three of us that made ourselves available. It seems that several prestigious schools are having a hard time [...]

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Sunday, 15 April 2007 The first 3 items are from my Bloglines backlog and are all also from the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily. Smith, Justin E. H. “Selected minor works: Where’s the philosophy?” 8 May 2006 This is absolutely brilliant and if I start quoting it I’ll just have to reproduce the whole thing. So [...]

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