habitually probing generalist

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Karen Armstrong; Knopf 2010 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is an important book. But it is a book which cannot simply be read to do any good. Caveat: I simply read it. Before I go on, let me recommend that you get the book from a library and read it. If [...]

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I am at The Ethics of Information Organization conference in Milwaukee for the next two days and I am really looking forward to the presentations. Hopefully I will find time to blog about this soon; unlike so many other things. With any luck the conference site will have wireless available. It is in the public [...]

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That is a complicated question for which I have very little that I can or will say directly. WordPress upgraded I did just upgrade WordPress to the newest version so if anyone is still reading this feel free to click through to the blog proper and see if you see anything amiss. Thanks. Some reasons [...]

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2 views on the slipperiness of words: Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one’s fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them. (Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris, R., & [...]

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Drinking with the Troops From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it. Perhaps if [...]

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I have come to realize that I am a failure at the professional role that I have been trying to adopt for the last several years.  It is one which, in many ways, I am perfectly suited for.  For instance, I can shoot holes in most any argument presented by most anyone, preferably with the [...]

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I. Am. A. Patriot—not to be confused with a nationalist—but today, once again, I loathe my country and the vast majority of its citizens. This great and grand country and its citizens have once again sent my child to war. I will not forgive you.     Us. Please do not in any way misunderstand [...]

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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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Saturday – Sunday, 22 – 23 Mar 2008 Mann, T. (2008). “On the Record” but Off the Track” a review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control, with a further examination of Library of Congress cataloging tendencies. , 38. Washington, DC: AFSCME 2910. Retrieved from http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf. [...]

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