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Marianne
I'm sure I must be up to something, and I will not stop until I find out what.
I have no idea HOW I maintained straight A's during this year of unrelated insanity (professorial forbearance probably had something to do with it), but it turns out I did. So now that grades are in, school is *really* over for the summer and I don't even have to THINK about next fall until at least July. *runs off to play*
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#survived
- Marianne
50 Incredible Tattoos Inspired By Books - http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannao...
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Executive Order -- Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information | The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pre...
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is it just me or does this deserve a "holy wow" or two? "Newly generated government data will be required to be made available in open, machine-readable format by default"
- Marianne
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Absolutely a holy wow. :)
- Hedgehog
Cool video about it http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog... Although, they're both listing off to one side
- Hedgehog
Such a big wow.
- Heather Piwowar
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I'll see that holy wow and raise you a #fuckyeahbuttercup
- RepoRat
(would have done so earlier except I just had time to drop my bags in my hotel room before heading out to Zombie Burger, which is a real thing that exists JUST LIKE OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA NOW)
- RepoRat
I AM DONE FOR THE SEMESTER AND I HAVE THE SUMMER OFF FROM SCHOOL AAAAAAAA HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!! *gets ready for work*
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- lris
HUZZAH
- Soup in a TARDIS
Holy Ghost Town - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I love this. Also, I love that not only my friends, but also the friends of my friends, are full of surprising talents. Guess maybe almost all of us are.
- Marianne
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Ron Sexsmith - Brandy Alexander - The Isaac Foundation's GALA FOR A CURE! - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Today's realization: I've been conflating Ron Sexsmith and Rufus Wainwright. FOR YEARS. My mind is a trap door, I tell you what.
- Marianne
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Imported my GoodReads stuff into LibraryThing. 5280 books went into the import queue. And then about 90 seconds later LibraryThing went down (for everybody, not just me). Can't help feeling like "hey, I took down LibraryThing!" although I'm sure that wasn't it.
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it's back up now and churning away. :)
- Marianne
A mile of books!
- Steele Lawman
I love the day when I get to put all the library haiku (and senryu) from our library haiku (and senryu) contest into the ballot and then send it out to everyone SO MUCH. I can never decide whether I like reading the haiku from people I know more, or the haiku from people I've never heard of who make me smile and nod anyway more. <3 <3 <3 <3.
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<3<3<3<3<3 / <3<3<3<3<3<3<3 / <3<3<3<3<3
- Steele Lawman
I love that you know the difference between haiku and senryu :)
- Meg V. Meg
Hee. Our classics/poetry librarian (and my dear friend) has drilled it into me for the last 5 years until I finally gave in and started saying it Every Single Time. Now it makes me happy too.
- Marianne
All that's left is God, by Michelle Beall: http://www.5280.com/magazin...
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This is uncommonly good. Also, she has a book coming out very soon - Teaching the Cat to Sit: A Memoir.
- Marianne
... cat? sit? on command? UNPOSSIBLE. Perhaps that is the point?
- RepoRat
1) Yeah, that's kind of the point. 2) My Tiger will sit on command, and he isn't the first cat I've had who would. You have to show him the money (er, treats) first though. Then he'll do all kinds of tricks.
- Marianne
I think Iris's Pippin will sit on command also. At least, I've seen it on video. But yeah, I'd say that's kind of the point.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Didi would be all "derp." Mouser would be all "oh no you di'nt, housemonkey!"
- RepoRat
Tiger's actually gotten a good enough association of what it means into his head that he will sometimes Sit Ostentatiously (chirping at and rubbing on me first) to attempt to get a treat out of me. "Look, look, look!!" *poses like a statue of Bast* *whips head around to stare pointedly at treat drawer*
- Marianne
The best I can do with mine is this: Plum has figured out that when I start to say "I'm sorry" that it means I'm about to stand up and she needs to get off of my lap, so she goes ahead and jumps down.
- Katy S
Oh yah, mine both sit, and one fetches. Now I will read the link :)
- Meg V. Meg
Oh, Plum fetches, but I didn't teach her to do it. She "trained" me.
- Katy S
Yep, same with mine.
- Meg V. Meg
Pye plays fetch. Gypsy would like to train me to chase her down the stairs.
- Hedgehog
Jeffrey chases too! I mean, we take turns chasing each other.
- Meg V. Meg
This is a great piece, Marianne, thanks.
- Meg V. Meg
:) I'm glad you liked it. I am definitely planning to read the book (which I suspect doesn't have much to do with the topic of this thread as it evolved).
- Marianne
We're supposed to be teaching our cats to sit next week in Kitten Kinder. Heh.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Another, more depressing paper-related thing:
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According to the last major literacy survey I could dig up (NAAL, 2003), about a THIRD of American resident adults are either illiterate (14ish percent) or only have basic literacy skills. Forget digital divide, we still have a reading divide.... (and I bet they overlap pretty damn thoroughly (and I bet I am far from the first person to fulminate about this)). [That's illiterate/only basically literate in English, not necessarily actually illiterate! But when it comes to stuff like government information, still pretty darn depressing.]
- Marianne
I struggle with wrapping my head around this.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
A sentence that will NOT actually be making it into the paper I have to submit tomorrow:
Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Buck Tempo - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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New addition to the "fascinating things we find in the library stacks" files. Radish rose.
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I always forget: was Radish Rose a Batman or Dick Tracy femme fatale?
- Steele Lawman
ok that's kinda awesome
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Terminally Chill - http://grasstomyknees.tumblr.com/post...
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- Marianne
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5678! (Moist Remix) featuring The 20 Second Dancers - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Aw, I love the dog
- maʀtha
Missy Higgins - Set Me On Fire - Official video - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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5678! (Official Video) - Butterfly Boucher - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Youtube has now whacked hard on my fake-sentience meter - it can find me videos I've never seen before of songs I've never heard before by musicians I've never noticed before, that I love. If only it could be that extra little bit smarter, and tell me to get back to writing my paper already. (Hey, self, GET BACK TO WRITING YOUR PAPER ALREADY.)
- Marianne
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(PS Yes, I have apparently been living under a rock. Damned wonderful world stuffed full to bursting with so many brilliant things I will never more than skim the ocean of them.)
- Marianne
Do you ever reread things in your head? I do. Today it's Moominvalley in November.
The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forest. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: "Where are you off to?"
- Marianne
"I don't know," Snufkin replied.
- Marianne
The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him.
- Marianne
Overjoyed. [Dear ex-members of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and ex-owners of Yonder Records: if you would like me to send you some money in exchange for sharing this song, I would happily do so. My experience of your works and prodding of the internet suggests that you really don't care. #orphanworks #deeplypersonal ]
Overjoyed.mp3 6 MB
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There is still a little bit of unmelted snow on the ground. An ice cream truck is playing its alluring, repetitive song, and small children are bellowing "ICE CREAM!" and running after it. #spring
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Random and won't necessarily lead to anything question: IF (and it's a big if) I was taking a self-directed tech learning course, and I had 2 out of 3 components figured, and wanted to pick, as my third, ONE programming or scripting language to attempt to become very basically competent at, which one would you recommend and why?*
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*Given that I am likely to become a librarian of some sort in a year or two; given that I am really not intending to become a systems librarian; given that my background is in circulation; given that I think digitization and circulation are allied fields; given my science training; given my not having DONE science in a decade; given my not having programmed anything except one game in the last fifteen years (though I was pretty skilled for a non-programmer before that)...**
- Marianne
** feel free to ignore the above comment and just answer based on your own skills/experience/interest - any data is better than no data :)
- Marianne
You have several good choices. R is excellent for number-crunching and data visualization of many sorts; it would help you either as a science librarian or in acq/circ if that's where you stay. Python is a general-purpose language often seen in scientific computing; it's also a Swiss army knife that can chop metadata, dice websites, and julienne repetitive tasks. Ruby and PHP are in broad use on the web, as is Javascript (though I don't rec Jscript as your first language because it's kind of grotty).
- RepoRat
Here's a simliar question (in a different field) on Ask MetaFilter: http://ask.metafilter.com/237517...
- Steele Lawman
Heh, RR. I am grinning at you because that was exactly the short list I was hoping people would help me pick from (though I welcome other suggestions too) - do you prefer one of those over the others, or think I would? Steve, thank you.
- Marianne
Well, I'm an ancient unreconstructed Pythonista, so I'm a leetle biased. I still like Python, and it's still my get-shit-done tool of choice. If you can *possibly* pull off both Python and R, I think that would be ideal.
- RepoRat
R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R or Python
- Meg V. Meg
<threadjack>I think I may have mentioned on FF somewhere that here at YorkU the required CS course that my son is taking as a physics 1st year teaches Fortran. Yes, Fortran. The good news is that his cohort is actually the last one to learn Fortran. Starting this summer, the course is switching to Matlab, which makes a lot more sense for physics in this day and age, though I'm sure many would also argue for Python. </threadjack>
- John Dupuis
My understanding is that once one feels competent in one language, it's easier to learn the next one. So is there any benefit in starting with R or with Python (or something else) because it's a better "gateway" language?
- Steele Lawman
Python is relatively close to very structured English, which could be an argument to starting with it. I'm struggling through it right now via a HeadFirst "Learn to Program" book which uses Python and A Byte of Python (free book)
- Hedgehog
Python or Javascript
- copystar
I learned Python first, and I found that a lot of its nitpickiness helped me with XML especially.
- Lily
Answering Ethel's question: Python has a long-standing reputation as a good gateway language because of its relatively uncluttered syntax, clean design, and broad application domain. R is a domain-specific language, which means that moving on from it to other languages will involve a somewhat greater learning curve... but the jobs it DOES do, it will usually do better and/or more simply than Python. (Though I hear NumPy is pretty awesome. I've never worked with it.)
- RepoRat
(thank you SO much, everyone. I would like this thread myself if I could.)
- Marianne
Oh, and see also http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ :)
- RepoRat
you can limp along in R without actually knowing how to program by following recipes from books and by using various gui packages and/or r-studio.... i'm so old i learned pascal in college but that gets me exactly no where. I'd like to learn Python and I'd like to force myself to do more regex searching... but this isn't about me :)
- Christina Pikas
Thanks for your comments on this, everyone. I'mma be taking the self-directed tech course (with tech folks for classmates!) in the fall. Very excited about it.
- Marianne
tell me more about this course and how it works?
- RepoRat
RR, the syllabus from last fall is here: http://my.ischool.syr.edu/Uploads... . Obviously it tends to be focused more toward other branches of the iSchool, but our program director made a point of publicizing it to us as an allowable elective. Like most self-directed electives, there's a...
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- Marianne
thanks!
- RepoRat
Jo Walton - Fantasy, Reading, and Escapism | Tor.com - http://www.tor.com/blogs...
"On the subject of reading as escapism, Tolkien asked C.S. Lewis who was opposed to escape, and answered 'Jailers.' Yet seventy-five years after the publication of Tolkien's “On Fairy Stories” where he relates this anecdote, people are still trying to make us feel guilty about our reading."
- Marianne
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daytime bump!
- Marianne
I dreamed Jay and I were having dinner with some of my favorite people that I haven't seen since they moved to Rhode Island. It was in the future because their baby was a 4-year-old. Then, I had to go off to do something. Then, I thought it was time to go, but it turned out they had actually started to have a big party while I was off doing...
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whatever I was doing, and couldn't we please stay?? And it was a delightful party, full of people playing games, far more organized than such parties usually are, and the food was amazing. And I felt entirely welcome and at ease. (So, pretty much like the parties I used to go to at their house when they lived here.)
- Marianne
When I woke up, I mostly felt like, WOW, I really miss our friends who moved to Rhode Island. But it was a lovely dream.
- Marianne
On the ONE hand, it is freaking awesome that my degree includes a required info policy class where we study (interesting, meaningful, challenging) stuff like the complexities of electronic voting security, with other iSchool students from specialties like telecom. I like feeling my brain work and I firmly believe it's within my professional scope.
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On the OTHER hand, I really haven't thought this hard about firmware since... uh... 1996 or so. It's humbling to be reading clear, lucid prose at a speed of 1 page every 8 minutes.
- Marianne
That sounds like a class practicing librarians should take every five years or so. Sounds awesome. (She says while doodling around the Internet pointlessly....)
- barbara fister
Fwd: LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free http://zite.to/10eFgoz (via http://friendfeed.com/misterj... - Jason Toney)
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Wicked. Have I mentioned lately that I freaking love any number of museums and wish sometimes that libraries were more like them?
- Marianne
LACMA is a great museum. I agree that libraries could learn a lot from museums, but I think the opposite is at least as true.
- Steele Lawman
Absolutely. I have heard as much from nifty museum folks - that they wish museums were more like their favorite libraries.
- Marianne
I actually wonder whether we won't eventually converge...
- Marianne
I was at a great talk yesterday where the presenter, Seb Chan, touched on libraries as models for higher quality and more open cataloging practices than museums, whereas museums have all this rare unique stuff. Therefore, join forces and conquer. That is a greatly summarized version of his response to a question of mine, but he has many other wonderful ideas. If you have a chance to see...
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- Amandadon't
Neato. Thanks for the link.
- Marianne
SEB CHAN IS THE BUSINESS. I heard him at DH Winter Institute and was blown away. He's ahead of museums AND libraries, and worth following for both.
- RepoRat
I did a workshop on Google Analytics with Seb in Sydney. He was showing how to use this tool but totally in the context of the mission of the organisation. He was at the Powerhouse at the time. Check out their use of linked data in their catalogue sometime.
- suelibrarian
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Oh, that's nice. What if Code4Lib becomes Code4GLAM?
- Amandadon't
I was just enthusing with a coworker about the spam email I got from Gov. Hickenlooper thanking me for my support of Colorado Civil Unions (I sent them some money last year), and letting me (us all) know he just signed the bill. I was telling my coworker that I am pretty sure this is the first time I have ever influenced public policy in Colorado...
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... for the better (even in the pebbles-in-an-avalanche sense). WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
- Marianne
Funny how much more welcome I feel in this state just from this law having passed, even though Jay is on notice that he isn't allowed to die until we are very very old, and hence it will probably never affect me in any legal sense.
- Marianne
I just found a mistake^H^H^H thought I found a mistake in the LoC authority file. I squeaked aloud in excitement that I would be able to talk about it in my ungraded assignment for org of info this week. #walkingonthedarkside #dorkitude Please feel free to share your own example of disproportionate enthusiasm in the comments.
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Dammit. It wasn't ACTUALLY a mistake. Still, I did squeak. And also, I would still love to hear y'all's examples. That was kind of the real point of posting.
- Marianne
Finding a dewey number without a decimal point. I was giddy laughing and thinking about what Borgesian library that might be found in. It was 6 digits long.
- Katy S
It's not quite the same thing, but I was pretty excited to find a book in our library, Marianne, with a bookplate stating it was a gift of the Third Reich, swastika and all.
- Steele Lawman
I would guess that that is a different but equally mindboggling feeling. Show it to me sometime?
- Marianne
I've been cross-stitching so much lately I've developed a blister on my needle-pushing finger. Not sure yet whether I will get a thimble or grow a callus.
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Callus! I can't get the hang of thimbles ;-)
- Heleninstitches
"That ain't woikin, that's the way you do it!" #maybegetablisteronyourthumb
- MoTO #TeamMonique
You can start collecting thimbles!!
- Hedgehog
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