habitually probing generalist

[Minor edit: 24 November 2011 to add links to Helen's posts at her blog.] Over two months ago, I dreamed up a reading challenge, My Two-Thirds Book Challenge, after finishing another over the previous year. The new one began on October 1st. So far, four people have joined me: 3 friends, E, Helen, and Jen, [...]

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Registration time is soon upon us at BCU. This time it will be for J-Term (January 3-20) and Spring semester. I am open to any feedback you might have but here is what I am considering for both. Descriptions, where provided, are from my discussion with the profs—trying to take notes while also being courteous [...]

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At the beginning of September I “finished” the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge. While I did not actually read all of the books on my list it seems that I was not alone.  As I wrote in my followup post I think that this is perfectly fine. Continuing in that spirit, I have devised another [...]

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As I wrote here, Sara and I went to Germany for my son’s wedding. It was a wonderful trip but far too short. We left on a Wed. morning and got back home on Mon. eve. We spent the first couple of days with my daughter-in-law’s parents in Fürth in the Odenwald. It was quite [...]

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A year ago a friend of mine suggested a new kind of ‘book club.’ See my post here for the background. Many of us joined her, and her write-ups of, and links to, everyone’s reading can be found at her blog here. My reviews and my initial post can all be found here. Here’s my [...]

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Thought I’d post a little update regarding my plans for fall. First, a quick update on where I am currently. Update My hours at the BCU library were bumped up to 6 (from 5) hours/week so I could take on a weeding project of my own. I had already cataloged the backlog and current acquisitions [...]

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Understanding exposure: how to shoot great photographs with any camera Bryan Peterson; Amphoto Books 2010 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This was a pretty decent book which, while I already knew a fair bit of this info regarding exposure, did provide me with some useful tips and techniques. It does contain a couple of minor editing/typo issues in [...]

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As I wrote a couple of posts back, I took a digital photography class (MCOM216) at Briar Cliff this summer. This short post is simply to provide links to my portfolio+ now that I have the pictures in Flickr. We used Photoshop to make an HTML portfolio as part of our graded exercises but it [...]

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I thought I’d bring folks up-to-date on what I’m doing work-wise. Since mid-September 2010 I have been working 5 hours/week as a feral cataloger at Briar Cliff University’s Bishop Mueller Library. Technically, I am an independent contractor, not an employee. The majority of what I do is copy cataloging,  although I have derived a couple [...]

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On photography Susan Sontag; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Just as I am excited about photography for the first time in a long time, Susan Sontag is killing my buzz. I took a digital photography class this summer from the Mass Comm department at Briar Cliff. I was able to use my own [...]

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