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August 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Book review submitted
Wednesday I finally submitted my first book review for publication.  Thanks, Walt, for recommending me to the editor. The book I reviewed is:

Budd, John. 2008. Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited. [WorldCat]
 

The short version of the review I would have liked to write is this:
Read. Discuss. Rinse. Repeat.
With [...]

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Tags: Books · Librariana · Military and War · My Life · Professionalism · Technology

Mark has been Off for 2 years

July 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

… but broken for much longer.
This blog, Off the Mark, is 2 years old today. I shall refrain from calling it an anniversary, as such, since last year we sort of decided that my blogging anniversary ought to be from the start of my 1st public blog, …the thoughts are broken…, which debuted in January [...]

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Tags: Communication · FRBR · My Life · Serials · Web/Tech · Weblogs

Love letter to an ex-girlfriend

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for [...]

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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Friends · Music · My Life

There must be a light of some kind

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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., & Hutton, C. [...]

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Tags: Morality · Music · My Life · Professionalism

Caresses and punches; or, what big corbicula you have, dear

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Caresses and punches; or, what big corbicula you have, dear
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

Bee best viewed at largest size.

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Tags: My Life

O, most frabjous day

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ]
Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a while [...]

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Tags: Communication · Education · Friends · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Professionalism · UIUC

Stargazing

June 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

the man sat gazing
awed by the vast firmament
night after endless night
terrified, alone
years rolled by
friends came
friends went
his children grew
and the world changed around him
the stars, they were too many
one May evening in the endless procession of months
in an Alley
the man and a friend sat and talked
unknown to the man
something stirred in the heavens
the night sky had [...]

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Tags: Friends · My Life · Story

Wordle memelet

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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 commented [...]

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Tags: Education · Games · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Web/Tech · WordPress

Some things read this week feature is over

June 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Back in mid-January 2007 I started a “feature” entitled “Some things read this week, …”. I have, for a long time now, been unhappy with it. I have rarely addressed the important things in the depth which they deserved and to which I would like. The date data is generally recorded in at least one [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · My Life · Weblogs

I am a failure

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Language and word issues · Librariana · Morality · My Life · Professionalism · Work