habitually probing generalist

Anyone who has read my blog for more than a few months knows that I took Bibliography with Dr. Krummel last Fall. My project in that class was a short bibliographical essay and an annotated bibliography on the connections between Roy Harris and Birger Hjørland in preparation for my capstone CAS paper. Recently I converted [...]

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Sunday – Thursday, 20 – 24 Apr 2008 Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books. Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue this but I read it on and off on Sunday and made a big dent at dinner in the Alley on Monday. I’m 66% of [...]

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Sunday – Friday, 13 – 18 Apr 2008 2007. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind. Malden: Blackwell Pub. Ch. 6 : Running Religiously by Jeffrey P. Fry (Sun) Ch. 7 : Hash Runners and Hellenistic Philosophers by Richard DeWitt (Mon) Ch. 8 : A Runner’s Pain (Mon) Ch. 9 : What Motivates an [...]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes. I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news. [some kind of division] Been watching a fair few movies, started [...]

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Sunday, 6 Apr 2008 Chan, Lois Mai. 1977. Alphabetical arrangement and subject collocation in Library of Congress Subject Headings. Library Resources & Technical Services 21, no. 2:156-169. Read this for Tom’s presentation/discussion of his project this coming Tuesday (see Tom’s bibliography mentioned last week). Marshall, Linnea. 2003. Specific and generic subject headings: increasing subject access [...]

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Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon. Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. The Language Myth in Western Culture. Richmond Surrey: Curzon. Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum. Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. [...]

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Of course I was planning on attending ASIS&T this year in Columbus, OH, but now I have an even better reason than simply because I enjoy it. Some friends (and real researchers) “roped me into” being on a panel and we just heard today that it was accepted. “Tagging as a Communication Device: The Impact [...]

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I guess I ought to give some kind of update on my issues with Comcast. Honestly though, it’s all just highly demoralizing. Let me start with the good. I do think that the local folks care. And the technician that came out—Will—spent about an hour here trying to get things working with both computers and [...]

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Feel free to ignore this post. I am simply testing the new version of WP with the COinS generator plugin that I have been using. One of the main things I checked after the upgrade was whether it was working. Past posts still showed the data and the draft of last week’s readings did, too. [...]

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Note: Not that it matters to anyone but me but my chronology may be a bit off due to Comcast pretty much taking over my life for most of this week and the end of the last one. Sunday – Thursday, 30 Mar – 3 Apr 2008 Budd, J. (2008). Self-Examination: The Present and Future [...]

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