habitually probing generalist

Cribbed from Angel at The Itinerant Librarian. 1 The book I am currently reading. Like Angel, I usually have more than one book going. I am currently reading the following: The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore; Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces; Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd and other stories; and about a half [...]

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Uh, not you. Me. Or maybe you but you have to take the scientific test to find out. Found at the Academic Librarian, of all places, because even ALs need to have a little fun. You Are Sexually Powerful Your attitude toward sex is healthy, safe, and sane. You enjoy sex as much as (or [...]

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After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative. Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I [...]

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I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 – 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again. Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. [...]

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Actually, during the last 2 years of high school my nickname (given to me by others) was Cookie Monster. Found at The Itinerant Librarian. You’re sweet (but not too sweet) and you fill other people’s lives with tasty bits of awesomeness. You’re no perfectionist – in fact, you’re a bit disorganized – but your friends [...]

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Sunday, 18 Nov Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007]. Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this. When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. [...]

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Via jennimi I’m a Mandarin! You’re an intellectual, and you’ve worked hard to get where you are now. You’re a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world’s problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you [...]

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Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP) Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving. How Rare Is Your Personality? Blame or credit for this one goes to Jennifer. Hard to [...]

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Found at in the hoosegow back in early April What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd     Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary [...]

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You’re The Sound and the Fury! by William Faulkner Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you’re mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you’ve lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but [...]

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