habitually probing generalist

I will be in Falls Church, VA for a portion of the holidays this year. If anyone is in the area and would like to meet up for dinner, or drinks, or coffee or some such please contact me via my contact form (or any other way you are aware of). I realize that being [...]

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It’s Sunday morning and I’ve been in Milwaukee since Friday evening. Had a longish, but nice drive up with fellow student Tom Dousa. Lots of great conversation and if I could only remember 10% it would be most useful. Of course, the most useful 10% would be even better. Tom is incredibly brilliant and is [...]

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Sitting here waiting on the bus home, I am now on my second 5-day “vacation”! The one person that I really wanted to go visit is unavailable at the moment. And, Laura, I’d love to come visit you but cannot consider driving to Meeteetse and back in 5 days. Same goes for Helen in Vermont. [...]

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I know it only makes sense that I have gotten physically ill, too. I’ve been fluctuating between various levels of despondency, hopelessness, depression, apathy and general ennui lately. There have been some good to great times, too, and I know I should focus on them. I do try. But one cannot make a life from [...]

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Last Wednesday morning I headed out for Toronto, Canada with my advisor, Kathryn La Barre, for the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14-15, 2007. The conference was Thursday afternoon and all day Friday with approximately 40 people in attendance. Big names, little names, old names, young names, academics (mostly), corporate folks, those in [...]

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[cite] Let me just state for the record: As much as I will miss all my friends who will be at ALA (including the wholesale category I forgot when I was making decisions) and as much as I wish I had been able to accept the offer to be on a panel discussion of a [...]

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Found at LibraryTavern My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: The Very Reverend Mark the Profuse of Nether Wombleshire Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title Or: My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Count-Palatine Mark the Nimble of Greater Sodbury Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title Take your pick! I kind of like them both. Me a Reverend; now that is [...]

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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 [...]

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Yes sir, gotta say the rooming worked out well! Very happy to hear that I’m “an incredibly interesting and easy-going roommate” because I was afeared that I might be “talking you to death” once or twice.  I’m posting this comment here instead of at washtublibrarian because I’m not getting a Blogger account just to make [...]

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Last Saturday, my baby girl’s birthday, I headed for Austin, Texas and ASIS&T 2006. As a newbie to ASIS&T conferences I was completely unaware of what was in store. As it was, I thought I was getting sick. Before leaving for the airport I posted as much. By the time I got to our airport [...]

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