Off the Mark

What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes.
I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news.
[some kind of division]
Been watching a fair few movies, started running (4x 5x [...]

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If you are a Flickr contact of mine, you might know that I have lately been scanning some photos (just a few, all told) from my photo albums. This has been, and is, odd for various reasons.
While the photo albums are “in order” (chronological), they aren’t perfect. For one thing, I’d often remove [...]

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When the flames rise around us and I can’t see the door
This is still my home and it has never burned before
This is where I’ve taken my solace and my peace
The walls are caving in but I am still a stubborn beast.
Jolie Holland. “Stubborn Beast.” Springtime Can Kill You.
I have decided that I do not [...]

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I made it back to lovely Champaign-Urbana in one piece. Stopped for milk and bread on the way home last night, but had little else in the house. So I called my friend Jenn and asked if she’d meet me at Crane Alley for a bite to eat. Jumped in the shower [...]

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Request: Could some of you all tell me if the photo in the previous post is displaying in your posts correctly, and/or in the feed reader? It doesn’t show up in Firefox as a post on either platform, but it does show up in Bloglines in FF.  And it shows up in Safari but not [...]

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Seeing as I don’t often like being told to “Just do” something, I have taken my time coming to most social software.
First, I took up blogging in late Jan 2005 after reading quite a few for a while.
Flickr was second in Jan of this year.
I took up IM in April of this year after some [...]

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Hung 23 pictures in my apartment.
Read some sociology of science for class:

3 chapters of de Solla Price’s Little Science, Big Science.
3 chapters of Crane’s Invisible Colleges.

Read a few articles on classification systems for Pauline’s class, including Ranganathan’s “Hidden Roots of Classification,” Inform. Stor. Retr. 3, 1967: 399-410. I have to say I’m pretty sceptical [...]

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