habitually probing generalist

I just paid an awful lot of money for a suit. Well, and a tie, too, but mostly for a suit. Heck, I still need a pair of dress shoes. Being a big boy sucks.

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Saturday evening, 18 Aug Nhat Hanh, Thich. Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life. New York N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1991. Finally got back to some of this. Sunday, 19 Aug Three NISO standards are up for reaffirmation so I read these this morning to provide my input: ANSI/NISO Z39.77-2001 Guidelines [...]

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I want to apologize to everyone who has commented on my last two posts, and to several other people who I owe responses in various venues. I did not mean to start a wonderful conversation and then leave it, but I must for the moment. While waiting on the bus to come home this afternoon [...]

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Request your thoughts on web-based bibliographies As I wrote previously, I am taking Bibliography this semester. Today (Wednesday) was the 1st day of classes, and since it was “actually” a Monday (don’t ask), and this is an on-campus class, the 1st day of Bibliography will meet next Wednesday, when Wednesday is truly Wednesday. [Seriously! I'm [...]

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Please don’t! Maybe I should take a different tack first. Instead I will try to combine them. If anyone reading this blog uses any means to output the items they add to del.icio.us as blog posts I would be interested in hearing your reasons for doing so. Now, if you have a blog that serves [...]

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Monday, 13 Aug Wilson, Patrick. “Situational relevance.” Information Storage and Retrieval 9 (1973): 457-471. Cited by Raber in The Problems of Information, ch. 9, en13, p. 186 for the whole article in support of: While many people, for example, may share the same problem or at least the same kind of problem, it does not [...]

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Classes I am taking 2+ classes this semester: Foundations of Information Processing in LIS with Dave Dubin (one of the most brilliant and generous men I have ever met) Covers the common data and document processing constructs and programming concepts used in library and information science. The history, strengths and weaknesses of the techniques are [...]

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This post is technically only for me, but feel free…. It is, in effect, a manually constructed “del.icio.us post” to collect the comments that I have made in the last day or so on issues of language. Oh, and some added-on self-analysis and rumination. Books See Also…, A study of scanning habit : a couple [...]

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This morning I read a post at Nicole Engard’s blog, What I Learned Today…, about a Library Camp session. The post is titled “Library Camp – Weinberger & Cataloging.” Before I begin, I want to make explicit that I am not picking on Nicole, the participants in this session, or anyone in particular. I may [...]

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[Yes, I realize that is a British (or alternative) spelling of judgment. I prefer it. It looks stupid to me otherwise.] I know that many of you could care less, but I have added a section on many of my musical compilations to my web site. Perhaps I should stipulate that I mean since the [...]

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