habitually probing generalist

[cite] Let me just state for the record: As much as I will miss all my friends who will be at ALA (including the wholesale category I forgot when I was making decisions) and as much as I wish I had been able to accept the offer to be on a panel discussion of a [...]

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Vision Session I: Bob Stein, Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. “The Evolution of Reading and Writing in the Networked Era.” This was an interesting session in which I only jotted down 2 pages of random and skimpy notes. In his prologue, he spoke about reading Arthur Koestler’s The Sleepwalkers which [...]

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This past weekend I attended my first North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference (their 22nd) in Louisville, KY. It was fun, interesting, and casual. I rode down and stayed with Steve Oberg, who I found out (from someone else) once we got there is a Past President of NASIG. Actually, over the course of [...]

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A couple hours ago I wrote and sent off an email that I found very difficult to write. This weekend I received an email asking me to sit on a panel at ALA to help discuss a topic of current concern to some. But, unfortunately and for various reasons, I decided early in the year [...]

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Computer To my few IM buddies I will not be available the next … days. I took my laptop to the shop this afternoon. The trackpad had been locking up a lot lately, and last night the whole machine just got stoopid! I’m really worried and praying that it is still under warranty. I believe [...]

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Sickness and death Been having odd sick-like things going on for a couple months now. Went to the doc last week. Sinus x-rays showed an infection and I’m a third of the way through 20 days of antibiotics. My electrolytes were also off and I had to have them retested. Go back Monday for a [...]

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This evening I finally joined NASIG. There is also a distinct possibility that I will be attending the NASIG 22nd Annual Conference in Louisville, KY in early June. So if anyone out there is going please let me know. I wish I had known I’d be going to this late last year when there was [...]

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