Off the Mark

Ready for writing/research.
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

Decided to clean up my writing/working areas before I buckle down and attempt to write my bibliographic essay.
Sure. It was a diversion to keep from real work. But this is a diversion that should pay huge dividends. I can actually see most of the desktop and I [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21
Who Is Tagging Information? - Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo).
Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums.
The panel was down two members so that had some impact [...]

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I want to add a few comments and, perhaps, caveats to Meredith’s use of the bookstore as an analogy in her post, “It’s not just the OPACs that suck.” I want to emphasize that I generally agree with Meredith here. I do not think she crossed any lines that shouldn’t be crossed. But [...]

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Let me begin by saying that I had a wonderful “Christmas.”
I put Christmas in quotes because, as it has been for a long time, Christmas is really a couple to a bunch of Christmases at different places over what may be a several week period (only 6 days this year).
It was great to see almost [...]

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Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable.
I recently finished this little, but powerful, book [OWC]. Actually, I believe it is an excerpt from a much larger work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited and introduced by Robert Lekachman (Penguin Classics, 1994) [OWC].
I bought this book in the Penguin Books . Great Ideas series. This is [...]

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As some of you (may) know, I am not a big fan of reading challenges. Nor do I do resolutions. You may also know that currently I do not read many books (as you will see soon enough [future link]); although I do have a pretty good theory about why my reading is [...]

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So much for my pleasure with myself over how I wanted to use the Calhoun Report to focus on what our “response” might be. I really wanted to discuss What can we accept from it? What needs a different scope, modal verb, etc. for acceptance? What can be added? And, the big [...]

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My Akismet spam filter just caught a message about sexy Halloween costumes. Boy was that ever a tempting one to look at. I mean, seriously, anyone who can sell me a costume to make me look sexy….
Too good to be true.  So I just nuked it; but I did hesitate for a few [...]

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This is not a review. I have no idea how to review literature, especially Czech lit.
Klíma, Ivan. Love and Garbage.
I finished this book last night, having read it and Kundera’s The Joke over the summer for my book discussion group. I really do not know enough about Czech history to properly place these [...]

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Tonight I accompanied Jenny in visiting one of the places in CU that she wanted to visit before heading off to the big city (literally; NYC).
We went to the Wienerschnitzel on Springfield (corporate vs. Wikipedia). When I was a kid in the north St. Louis suburbs we had a Wienerschnitzel so I thought it’d [...]

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