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Forgiving my lack of expression (and the terrible lighting), which pair of hipster glasses do you think I should purchase?
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O hai Meg :) I like 1 and 4
- Hedgehog
I'm with Hedgie
- lris
Me three. Um, by which I mean I'm with Hedgie and Iris in liking 1 and 4. Not 3 so much.
- laura x
also agree with 1 and 4
- holly #ravingfangirl
I vote only #1. (Unless #4 is significantly cheaper.)
- c.a.j.
Not that you can really tell here, but #1 is "striped evergreen": http://www.warbyparker.com/women... and #4 is a "sandalwood matte": http://www.warbyparker.com/women...
- Meg V. Meg
I like 1, 2, and 4.
- Steele Lawman
2 or 4. depends on how hipster you want to go and what type of hipster you want to be and how "mad men inspired" you want to feel.
- kendrak
KK, which one is more "mad men inspired", I can't tell.
- Meg V. Meg
1 or 2
- John (bird whisperer)
Here's the color of the 2nd one: http://www.warbyparker.com/women...
- Meg V. Meg
4 i think? maybe 2? 3 and 5 are more early 80s. 1 is late 90s interpretation of 60s. (you can tell i spend a lot of time researching frames.)
- kendrak
i dig the brushed opal.
- kendrak
1 says I
- Libraryman
1.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
1
- jambina
1 and/or 4.
- Laura H.
1 and 4
- Sir Shuping is just sir
1
- Running Slow
1 or 4, but 1 is my favorite.
- Marianne
2 is kind of endearing though.
- Marianne
4
- Peter Dawson
1 or 4
- Stephen le Francoeur
2 but can't go wrong with any
- SteVe C
1 or 4. I like 1 more.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
1 and 4. Leaning more towards 1.
- Corinne L
1
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I and 4, but leaning toward 4. I kind of want them to be a little higher on your face...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
4
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Rudy, I think it's my ears (really)
- Meg V. Meg
2nd from bottom
- Hieronymous Boosh
2 or 4.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
1 or 3 or 5.
- Joe Boone
1
- Rachel Lea Fox
Now can we write captions for each of the pics? Because, really, your expressions are awesome. For example, for #1: "Are really letting that newt crawl up your nose?"
- maʀtha
1 or 4.
- Jim #TeamMonique
#5 "I wouldn't do that if I were you..."
- maʀtha
1 and 4.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
1.
- Julian
1
- Micah
Rowman.com: 9780810890527 - Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians - https://rowman.com/ISBN...
Sir Shuping is just sir, holly #ravingfangirl and Betsy #TeamMonique liked this
I admit it, I just ordered a copy for the library
- maʀtha
from Bookmarklet
nothing wrong with that. SLIS library is collecting in this area because we're about to launch a PM course.
- RepoRat
Huh. I'm supposed to start work on a Project Management for Libraries book sometime this fall for Rowman publishing (after I finish both the cloud books I'm working on for them). I wonder if the editor I'm working with knows that this is even out.
- WebGoddess
I fully expect it to automagically solve all of my problems :)
- maʀtha
et voila!
- maʀtha
Well, Martha, if it doesn't, sounds like there will be another one out next year.. ;)
- WebGoddess
Nice cover.
- barbara fister
I just like the idea that the cover art for a book on project management isn't out yet.
- laura x
snerk.
- barbara fister
I just got Boing Boinged: http://boingboing.net/2013...
Heather Piwowar, MoTO #TeamMonique, weelibrarian and 17 other people liked this
woot! congrats!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
good job, sir
- Meg V. Meg
Congratulations!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I know someone who going BoingBoinged. I feel faint...
- barbara fister
I feel a little faint too. BB sure brings the traffic.
- John Dupuis
Excellent
- Hedgehog
We should totally play Six Degrees of BoingBoinged. (Well done, John.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Oh man! So cool! We are all first degree now!
- laura x
Also in Slate! http://www.slate.com/blogs...
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
dang, that's awesome.
- Marie
Yeah, uh, this whole thing has been pretty wild. Up to nearly 12K page views, which is by far the most popular post I've ever done. Posts on the politicization of science in Canada have always been popular, but in the 1-2K page view range.
- John Dupuis
Liked on Fb: 3.6K, Tweets: 763. Even 74 +1's on G+, for heaven's sake.
- John Dupuis
But, how much has this been shared in friendfeed?
- Joe Boone
Now it's slashdot and stumbleupon.
- John Dupuis
Who did you pay, and how much?
- Joe Boone
I wish I were that smart. I guess I should mention that I did submit the post to BB but I imagine they pick up only a very small portion of what's submitted. I suspected I would have a decent shot because Cory Doctorow is Canadian and he has posted about the Canadian goverment in the past. Aside from that, all I did was tweet it up a bit more than usual.
- John Dupuis
Didn't know that there was a process for submitting posts to BB, and that is good to know.
- Joe Boone
Edging up to 30K page views, 73 comments, 7K likes, 1100 tweets, 200 +1's and more than a dozen links from other blogs (including Bruce Sterling, of all people). Probably a dozen or so emails with suggestions, some from insiders. This is seriously unlike anything else that's ever happened.
- John Dupuis
What fun! Congrats, and good job, John. You hit a nerve, and brought info.
- Heather Piwowar
from iPhone
rock on, man!
- RepoRat
Thanks. I've noticed a few people have basically republished my list, with attribution. I'm thinking CC0 for this post.
- John Dupuis
What's your favorite vegetable?
Koleksiyoner Ali, joey and Jennifer Dittrich liked this
frozen would be green beans, fresh would be bell peppers
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Broccolli
- Mo Kargas
Yep. Broccoli. Green peas and corn come in tied for a close second, though.
- Akiva
Asparagus, but there are so many that I really like.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Tomatoes
- Katy S
Asparagus. (or broccoli. Or kale. Or, due to very short seasons English peas and delicata squash)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I think I need to change my answer to onions considering how much I use them.
- Katy S
Spinach.
- ronin
rapini
- jambina
Mushrooms (cooked)
- Jenny
Mushrooms. Or tomatoes. Or stir-fried swiss chard. Gah!
- Micah
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R.P. McMurphy.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I'm with Katy -- tomatoes! Even though they are actually a fruit -- so I get a second pick: fresh green beans. :)
- Lois Loves LB and Mr. B
Broccoli. Or Tomatoes. Or Butternut Squash.
- John (bird whisperer)
Broccoli and zucchini.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
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Oh, and artichoke.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Asparagus
- Walt Crawford
Squash
- Eric
macaroni & cheese (I live in the south)
- Anne Graham
mushrooms
- Jenica
corn. but i want to be like Anne and say mac and cheese because duh.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Wow, we've gone from zucchini to mac and cheese. That's the full spectrum there, folks.
- lris
Iris - what's your favorite?
- Katy S
Artichokes.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
It's close between broccoli, asparagus, and summer squash.
- Heather
Eggplant! Can be in Japanese, Chinese, Italian food, or even just grilled. So versatile!
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
I like most things in a salad. Love potato in most forms. Corn on the cob. Grilled asparagus. Eggplant.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Oh, well, if *that's* the question, other than eggplants and olives, I'm good with most veggies if prepared properly (which usually means simply).
- Walt Crawford
peas
- Mary Carmen
Garlic? Or onion. Or mushroom. Or arugula.
- Meg V. Meg
Butternut squash or bell peppers.
- Laura H.
oh wait. potatoes.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I know right. Potatoes. I have to officially change my answer.
- Micah
Swede! espeially when mashed up with carrots and lots of butter and pepper
- Heleninstitches
(^also known as rutabaga :))
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
raw broccoli
- Hieronymous Boosh
Funyuns
- imabonehead
Asparagus and artichokes, fresh. Frozen Brussels sprouts with the fake butter sauce.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I have so many I like...cannot eat peppers or cucumbers but other then that all is good.
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
I'm doing a list of Quick Reads for adult summer reading. Please name your favorite books that are either 1) UNDER 200 pages or 2) have VERY SHORT chapters. Fiction and nonfiction are fine.
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Girl With a Pearl Earring may skate in just over 200 pages, but I recall blasting through it much faster than most novels when I read it.
- Catherine Pellegrino
All my friends are superheroes by Andrew Kaufman; The chairs are where the people go by Sheila Heti; The Clock of the Long Now by Steward Brand are three that come to mind...
- copystar
Well, this will spoil the surprise I had for you, because I'm mailing it as soon as I get my ass down to the post office (and I am going to imperiously and ineffectually demand you not read it until you get that copy), but I'm utterly in love with Maggie Nelson's Bluets (http://www.wavepoetry.com/collect...). It's 112 pages long and the chapters are paragraphs. (It's not *actually* poetry either, although it is sometimes poetry-like - it's fiction and/or memoir.)
- Marianne
Blockade Billy, by Stephen King.
- Julian
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (it's less than 100)
- Katy S
Animal Farm
- Hedgehog
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (technically a collection of connected short stories, if that's okay). Also, I'd love to see your list when you're done. :)
- Katy S
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Kathy
Broetry by Brian McGackin
- Katie
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell (very short chapters)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Someone at Fiction-L has been collecting these, too, for a quick turn-around book club. http://www3.mgpl.org/maillis...
- barbara fister
Ordinary Love and Good Will, Smiley
- maʀtha
Annie John, Kincaid
- maʀtha
I think most Jane Austen novels are a little over 200 pages, and I think they also have fairly short chapters. Pride & Prejudice comes in at about 256, and has 61 chapters. My other favorite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion.
- Laura H.
ooh, a lot of kincaid is short. My Brother is my favorite (nonfiction) and it's 208 pp... it read very quickly.
- Marianne
Second on 84 Charing Cross Road! I also adore Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, which skates in at 234 pgs. Paletas by Fany Gerson, Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? Classic short stories like the Yellow Wallpaper, ....I do not read many book under 200 pages. This is hard!
- MontglaneChess
House on Mango Street, Cisneros
- maʀtha
also a lot of Diana Athill is very short. Somewhere Towards the End is seriously wonderful (and again, 208 pages; what's with me and 208 page books?).
- Marianne
I was surprised to see that The Martian Chronicles was as long as 250 pages. A college acquaintance of mine wrote a wonderful short book called Treasure Island!!! http://www.amazon.com/Treasur...
- Steele Lawman
Room with a View, Forster
- maʀtha
Could alo include some flash fiction collections
- maʀtha
Various Steinbeck
- maʀtha
To the lighthouse, Woolf
- maʀtha
Night
- maʀtha
Is the goal to come up with books that are fun and not intimidating?
- Steele Lawman
I just read Tale of the Unknown Island by Saramago on Sunday, VERY short
- maʀtha
In honor of DJF, Three Men in a Boat
- maʀtha
P. G. Wodehouse
- maʀtha
Teaching a stone to Talk, Dillard
- maʀtha
Stewart O'Nan's The Odds (179 pp). Iain Pears' The Portrait (224 pp but it's effectively double-spaced).
- Marianne
All The Days & Nights - William Maxwell; Kindred - Octavia Butler; The Writing Life - Annie Dillard; On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Pines- Blake Crouch (before M. Night Shameyalan ruins it)
- Guy
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamed
- Heleninstitches
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's shorter books
- Heleninstitches
Paul Torday's might come in under 200 pages. Always intriguing... tho perhaps a bit British!
- Heleninstitches
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston, just under 200p, flies by
- Julie Kane
@Steele: Yeah, I've refrained from listing a bunch of titles because they might be less accessible: The Bluest Eye, Henry James short novels, Faith & the Good Thing, and the book I'm reading now, Beasts of No Nation (Iweala), which is definitely not light summer reading and is stunningly good.
- maʀtha
On Bullshit, Frankfurt. Less than 100 pages, but written by a real philosopher.
- Steele Lawman
The Little Prince.
- Deborah Fitchett
Where'd you go, Bernadette?
- Elizabeth Brown
Any of Tove Jansson's non-Moomin stuff. Novels are short, others are short story collections.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Just read Buddha in the Attic. Not my favourite per se, but it's very good, quick, and unusual.
- Megan loves summer
Thank you all! The goal is to have a variety of short books and/or quick to read books. Some will be fun and some will be more intimidating, but I figure an intimidating 180 page book is much less intimidating than, say, an intimidating 680 page book.
- laura x
we would like to see the finished list, please :)
- maʀtha
My book now exists in so many formats I am not sure I can keep track of them all.
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Pokedex
- Pete #TeamMonique
Word doc. PDF of Word doc. ePub from Pressbooks. PDF from Pressbooks. Kindle file created from Word doc. Web version on Pressbooks.
- laura x
LaTeX?
- Julian
I think that's it.
- laura x
No WordPerfect? I am affronted.
- Catherine Pellegrino
*gigglesnort*
- maʀtha
WordStar format? [I guess that William F. Buckley, Jr. used the software to write very many works, including his last book.]
- Joe Boone
I'm waiting for the clay tablet version.
- Andy
Walt will be fascinated to know that Kindle Direct Publishing lets you upload in a variety of formats, though they recommend .doc or .docx, which is what I did. Then you get to preview what the book will look like on various Kindle devices and apps. Predictably, it looks great on the newest Kindles and crumby on everything else.
- laura x
Laura: I made a KDP version of Give Us a Dollar using their instructions, which worked beautifully--and which I've blogged about. The instructions use .htm, Word filtered HTML output, after you strip out page headers & footers. Great results, about 10 minutes' work, live contents in resulting ebook.
- Walt Crawford
Oh, it doesn't look *that* crumby uploading directly from Word--it's just that my book has a lot of front matter (dedication and epigraphs and stuff) that doesn't space nicely on all devices. The Pressbooks epub is gorgeous.
- laura x
Mine does have live contents direct from Word, too, though I'm not sure how important the contents is in a 33,000 word memoir. :)
- laura x
If I had to guess, I'd guess Kindle has some semi-automated process to attempt to strip headers & footers from Word files (which shouldn't be difficult, actually, if they're tagged properly). Yeah, I can imagine spacing with things like epigraphs could be problematic.
- Walt Crawford
It doesn't look any worse than most other ebooks I've seen--I've noticed this problem with a lot of them, and I think it's just part of the new(ish) formats + lots of different devices. The whole book was hard to format because so much of it is written in very short sections--so there's a header every 300-1200 words, or thereabouts. I finally gave up on vertical page justification.
- laura x
I generally have mixed feelings about vertical page justification--and it's meaningless in ebooks anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody noticed when I started using it in Cites & Insights and I almost never bother in books--especially if there are tables involved. But that's just me. (Word's bizarro treatment of sections and vertical justification doesn't help--you can get tired adding padding blank paragraphs so that Word won't s p r e a d t h e l i n e s way out.)
- Walt Crawford
No kidding!
- laura x
Sometimes I miss Wyoming (and all the rugged, beautiful places I've been) so much it hurts, and I cry. Now is one of those times.
Funny, I was talking to Wyoming the other day, and she misses you, too.
- Joe Boone
Aw Laura. *hugs*
- Steele Lawman
Yup. Even though I've been back in Oklahoma for over seven years, I still have those moments of painfully missing Oregon and Idaho. And when I was there, I missed here the same way.
- Kirsten
Sadly, I pretty much never missed Iowa. :(
- laura x
A visual acuity test (or something like it) - http://walt.lishost.org/2013...
It will be interesting to see whether I get any comments on this. I'm not holding my breath. (But then, few posts get any comments anyway, and this one's a little abstruse.)
- Walt Crawford
I commented, mostly so you could just tell us what the trick answer is. Please?
- Stephen le Francoeur
There is no trick answer. I'm guessing one or two women with very high quality displays might be discerning enough to find the answer. ("Women" because they frequently have superior color acuity.) Or maybe this one's just hopeless.
- Walt Crawford
When I first looked at it yesterday, I could have sworn I saw a light blue frame around the image.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I see a light blue square on my computer. I didn't see anything on my phone.
- laura x
Oh wait. Now I see pink and yellow, too. And the pink sometimes looks lavender, depending on the light and the angle I'm looking at it from.
- laura x
DO I PASS? DO I WIN SOMETHING?
- laura x
I got nothin', even with my new cyborg eyes.
- Jenica
Can't see a thing other than white.
- Kirsten
Laura, what's in your drink?
- Stephen le Francoeur
These eyes are useless, I demand a refund.
- Meg V. Meg
No prize. A light blue frame around the image is a display problem. And it turns out I screwed up (or JPEG compression screwed up) the image--there are only four colors where there should be seven. I've just posted a new one with ten colors (four of which I can see if I really try hard), but this one isn't a guessing game.
- Walt Crawford
I assume it's cheating if you tilt your laptop screen? How much of this is dependent on display, or do you know.
- Meg V. Meg
^ this. If I tilt my monitor, I can see four.
- Jennifer Dittrich
There's no such thing as cheating (it's not a contest!), and I suspect a lot is dependent on display--a display in something like THX mode might do better.
- Walt Crawford
I see only white; I'll forward it this evening to a (female) friend who's a tetrachromat.
- Deborah Fitchett
I see pink and blue, if I tilt the screen way way down.
- Joe Boone
I see all of them, if I adjust my display so that I can see all of them.
- Meg V. Meg
Yep. Display adjustment has a lot to do with it (esp. the second, ten-color, version, which has bigger changes than the first one anyway).
- Walt Crawford
With the Assessment Committee, reading departmental assessment reports. And, like, assessing them. Who assesses the assessors' assessors?
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As Catherine likes to say, it's turtles all the way down.
- Steele Lawman
The Oversight Committee, I assume.
- Meg V. Meg
C came back from some AAC&U thing all in a tizzy because one of the regional accreditors (Western States) has a thing where your college has to assess its assessment plan. I think that rates an omgwtfbbq, wouldn't you say?
- Catherine Pellegrino
I believe the Committee on Committees appoints someone from the Department of Redundancy Department to oversee such assessments.
- laura x
Ah, is that the new name for the Ministry of General Interference? I thought they outsourced it to Pearson.
- barbara fister
*snort*
- maʀtha
You know, I gotta admit, I think assessing the assessment plan is the right number of turtles, at least here. At our college, it's very difficult to get ONE plan for anything. What we have is more of a call from the dean's office to the individual academic departments to assess student learning as she is done in their own departments--setting goals, learning outcomes, coming up with...
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- Steele Lawman
My brain refuses to even read this thread.
- Deborah Fitchett
We just went through our accreditation visit. I chaired the assessment of assessment committee last time around and we squeaked by. This time, they were less zealous about the "we're going to assess whether you have a sufficiently developed culture of assessment" thing.
- barbara fister
Ah, see, we *didn't* squeak by last time.
- Steele Lawman
Lightning never strikes twice, my skinny German ass. I'm at Tempe St Luke's Hospital - my car was sandwiched between 2 SUVs.
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Oh, no!
- LB: #TeamMonique
:(.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
:-(
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Hope you are okay.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
holy crap. sending good and healing thoughts your way.
- Hieronymous Boosh
:(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
:( Glad that you're out of the ER.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Glad you're okay.
- Anne Bouey
I'm glad you're not badly hurt.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Dude! Take care xx
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Those CAT scans! Did they give you a Lab instead? #badhospitalhumor
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
:-(
- Russian Space Lizard
Now that we know you are okay, what about your car?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Good grief! Universe, please leave Teleken alone for awhile, okay?
- laura x
Glad you're okay.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
glad that you're ok!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Oh Ken. Oy Oy Oy. Glad you're okay. Sorry for the loss of your car. Agree with Laura X.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
I just received a confirmation form for a state library association conference at which, apparently, I agreed to talk about Older Teen and YA Programming.
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make sure you really committed to it or if they just "put you in"
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
a) I did not apply to present at this conference at all. b) I have not done YA programming in 7 years. I just think it's hilarious.
- laura x
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection » Blog Archive TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE...VERY BAD...Movie » EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection - http://www.earlyword.com/2013...
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"Disney’s live-action movie based on Judith Viorst’s 1972 hit children’s Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Atheneum) is making baby steps closer to the screen. Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) is directing, Steve Carrell is set to star as Alexander’s father, and The Hollywood Reporter writes that Jennifer Garner is in talks to join the cast as the mother."
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
Just, no.
- laura x
No.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I mean, there's no way they're going to have Jennifer Garner wearing a schlumpy ponytail on screen right?
- laura x
So, I've only seen Laurel Canyon, but Cholodenko is possibly an interesting choice?
- Amandadon't
But....the dad doesn't actually DO anything in the book!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Love. That. Book. LOVE IT.
- Soup in a TARDIS
I cherish the crap out of this book. I'm not sure I'm OK with a film on it. There is a children's theatre stage musical version of it that is fantastic but I think that's about as whimsical as I'm willing to get.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I guess I feel about this the same way I feel about the live-action Grinch movie from a few years back: it's an abomination, but as long as I don't have to go see it or take my kid to it, I don't much care.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Well, yes. That's about how I feel. But then I feel that way about SO MANY THINGS.
- laura x
(I quite liked the Grinch movie. But a) I never particularly cherished the book, and b) I had to watch the movie umpteen times to teach it to several ESOL classes, which is a situation where you just have to like the thing anyway out of pure self-defence.)
- Deborah Fitchett
(This said: Anyone but Jim Carrey.)
- Deborah Fitchett
or Mike Myers.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Rule 34 as evidence that culture, too, abhors a vacuum.
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Except perhaps when it comes to women on the internet (rule 30 or 37, depending on which list you go off of).
- Mark Trapp
Numbered rules suck.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Oh, I'd say the vacuum is indifferent/subject to the systemic biases of culture creation/distribution. Unless you mean the rule 30 which represents the one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule introduced by Stephen Wolfram in 1983 (which I am very excited to learn about, so thank you).
- Meg V. Meg
NUMBERED RULES RULE.
- Meg V. Meg
That sounds better than the rule 30 to which I refer, which is "there are no girls on the internet". :(
- Mark Trapp
Oh, I'm not attesting to its descriptive (or normative!) power; just providing it as a counter-example, from the same list of rules that rule 34 comes from, to culture (or really, the subset of culture that created the list) abhorring a vacuum. While a porn variety vacuum is prohibited, an internet gender vacuum is codified.
- Mark Trapp
Sure sure, and that's the rule 30 I was responding to, initially. The vacuum is a vacuum. What fills it up is culture. Culture creation/distribution is subject to systemic biases.
- Meg V. Meg
I mean, on the internet, we're all dogs, right? It's just that "nobody knows": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... So that's why there are no girls :)
- Meg V. Meg
OH MY GOD, AND THAT'S WHY THE INTERNET IS OBSESSED WITH CATS
- Meg V. Meg
And why that dog riding the skateboard is such a huge sensation! It's all coming together, now.
- Mark Trapp
Right?
- Meg V. Meg
This thread is totally rule-wonk pr0n.
- Steele Lawman
Country Noir - http://prospect.org/article...
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"He didn’t try fiction until he was nearly 30, when he saw Fight Club, the 1999 film in which Brad Pitt’s character organizes a series of brutal underground fights. Bill loved the movie so much he sought out the book, and Chuck Palahniuk’s novel converted him into a reader who relied on the Internet’s algorithmic suggestions for what to devour next. I can’t decide whether to admire Bill’s drive or to despair at a literary culture that doesn’t do more to reach people like him."
- laura x
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If you want Walt Crawford to unglue his book "The Big Deal and the Damage Done" you can wish for it at https://unglue.it/work/120545/ just don't expect him to change into an extrovert over night.
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Hi there Eric. You sure know how to enter an online community!
- lris
Well, I know half the people here already.
- Eric Hellman
So this would unglue the book, but not Walt himself?
- Steele Lawman
we can't unglue Walt because there's no ISBN for him and OCLC won't catalog him.
- Eric Hellman
At one point my library was seriously considering cataloging the liaisons so that we'd end up appearing when people searched for our topics of expertise. If we did that, could I be unglued?
- lris
no time to read all the instructions - do i have to pledge an amount or is wishlisting it enough?
- Christina Pikas
wishlisting is enough
- Eric Hellman
Unhinged?
- Steele Lawman
Iris, if the liaisons get their own Worldcat records, then maybe. We could start "unbalance.it".
- Eric Hellman
It might be easier to come unglued all by myself...
- lris
I'm on Van Halen's "Unchained" myself.
- Steele Lawman
Joe, I love that video. And David Lee Roth is the hotness.
- Steele Lawman
There are some threads I'd just as soon stay out of.
- Walt Crawford
Okay, I have wished! My son is very good at ungluing things, but I suspect he's a little too young to have an account.
- laura x
Walt, if I were you, I would stay out of David Lee Roth's threads.
- Joe Boone
I would note one thing: Buying the book may have more of an effect than wishing for it. At $9.95 (and you *own* the PDF--no DRM, free to lend it, free to resell it), it's not a massive commitment.
- Walt Crawford
Tied for #45 on the most-wished list with "Watchmen" and Tufte's "Display of Quantitative Information". https://unglue.it/lists...
- Eric Hellman
Can't we declare Walt a National Treasure and get him archived and cataloged that way?
- Cameron Neylon
As the person who originally raised this issue,I am glad to see interest, and if Walt decide to go for it I'll put down more money to unglue it. But I think I'll just say that here.
- barbara fister
Cameron: No. I'm no treasure, national or local (I'm mostly a grumpy but curious old twice-fired has-been), and National Treasure doesn't carry funding.
- Walt Crawford
[The "but curious" is, of course, what leads to the public library non-closure study, the academic library "circ is falling everywhere" study, Give Us a Dollar...and The Big Deal and the Damage Done. Curiosity combined with reasonable writing and adequate numeracy is a terrible, terrible thing.]
- Walt Crawford
Looking at this again...Cameron, thanks very much for saying that. I'm feeling a little grumpy and not at all like a treasure. It happens.
- Walt Crawford
No problem. I think we all feel a bit grumpy and unappreciated sometimes...sometimes justified, sometimes not, but always human.
- Cameron Neylon
Steele Lawman made me a cover for my book. (It may be tweaked a bit more.)
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Fabu author photo!!
- Katie
I love this so much. When Steve first showed me I was all THE COUCH!! IT IS THE COUCH!!!
- Marianne
I can't wait to read this! Well done, laura!
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
Professional cover designs are one thing that traditional publishing has over self-publishing. Except when you can get a design that professional (that *is* a compliment) in a self-published book. Congratulations!
- Walt Crawford
LOVE
- jambina
Just fantastic.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Everything looks wonderful!
- Katy S
OMG! Where can I buy it!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
oh wow, wow, wow.
- Marie
I keep seeing this and loving it again.
- lris
... Imma add this cover to the miscellanea I'm collecting in case I ever get to teach a basic design course.
- RepoRat
I love the couch!
- maʀtha
For those curious about the couch: http://newrambler.net/ramblin...
- laura x
Walt, I am touched by your compliment, after I have been a jerk to you too often. Thank you. That said, Laura supplied the photo of the couch, I chose a classic typeface and sampled colors from the photograph. So I'm happy with how it turned out, but it's more a matter of listening to what the author wanted.
- Steele Lawman
OMG You mean Steele Lawman is actually Steve Lawson! I take it all.... Nah. A good book cover, especially a good uncluttered one, is great and not always easy to do. This one's good in a number of subtle ways. I try to respect those who have talents I lack, and really good cover design is one of those.
- Walt Crawford
Good thing I can read. No one tells me anything! Here I was admiring the cover, never knowing the source of it! Wow.
- Mama Lawson
Heh
- maʀtha
Anyone have any mind-blowing frittata recipes?
Or other interesting gluten-free breakfast/brunch items? Ones that don't call for gluten-free flour, because I am not buying gluten-free flour.
- Meg V. Meg
There's one in Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone that's onions, Swiss chard, and gruyere that is fabulous.
- laura x
I forgot to thank you for this! It was perfect.
- Meg V. Meg
Nowhere open will have rhubarb, so I'm settling for egg cream. Tomorrow I will have rhubarb. I WILL HAVE RHUBARB.
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how will you have your rhubarb?
- holly #ravingfangirl
I really haven't seen any rhubarb here, I wonder why.
- Meg V. Meg
I was thinking a crumble/crisp-type item? With whipped cream.
- Meg V. Meg
suggestion: cardamom and vanilla. OMG.
- holly #ravingfangirl
You are killing me.
- Meg V. Meg
someone mentioned them as the perfect combination with rhubarb, so i had to try. THEY WERE SO RIGHT.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Did you add them to the rhubarb part? Or to the cream? I am wondering how amazing the second option would be.
- Meg V. Meg
i've added them to the rhubarb, but you are so right about the cream.
- holly #ravingfangirl
AND MAIL IT TO ME
- Meg V. Meg
Seriously, I haven't seen it anywhere.
- Meg V. Meg
My bike is at the shop (where, amazingly, I bought it 13 years ago this month). I looked at the tune up and fixing estimate and said, "Sure, go for it!" It now occurs to me that I have put more money into this bike than I paid for it in the first place. But it's still going.
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mechanical things are like that. *sigh* if it makes you feel any better, the same is true of Pleione, though it's a leetle unfair 'cos I got her at end-of-season sale.
- RepoRat
Oh yeah. It's just funny, because while I've put a lot of money into car repairs over the years, I doubt I've ever exceeded the amount I paid for the car. I paid $350 for this bike (it's a Trek 720), but what with tune ups, replacing the seat a few times, replacing the tires once, and so on, I've probably doubled that in repairs. Which, if you average it out over 13 years, is not much. Just funny.
- laura x
That is the wrong way to think about it. Is tuning it up and fixing it right now cheaper than replacing it right now? Also, I love taking the bike to the shop, because even if the mechanics discover something horrible (last year I had to replace the chain and rear gears), it's still less than the cost of regular maintenance on my car.
- DJF
If it's a well-made bike, it's worth it. I *wish* I still had my Bridgestone bikes from the Grant Peterson era. They only made those for a decade or so and they're fantastic bikes. Unlike many modern cars, a good bike can be sustained in top shape for ages. The frame is the critical bit. As long as your frame & fork were well-designed, you can swap out any number of parts over the years...
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- Spidra Webster
Actually, properly-maintained modern cars with Honda or Toyota engines that are driven on roads that don't get salted all the time can last pretty close to forever. (The engines are good for 300,000 miles, easily. That, and general high reliability, is why I specify Honda and Toyota.) I still think of our Honda as a new car, and it's 8 years old.
- Walt Crawford
Not that I disagree with the general point. If you have a well-made bike that you actually like, doubling its price over the years to keep it in good running shape seems entirely reasonable.
- Walt Crawford
I think some Japanese cars definitely have that ability, Walt. Still, most modern cars I'm familiar with, esp US cars, ride significantly worse after 15 or so years, even with regular maintenance.
- Spidra Webster
Oh yeah, I totally think it's worth it. Just funny. Walt, my 1998 Honda Civic made it to almost 200,000 miles, at which point it acquired transmission problems common to that era of Civics, and I decided it wasn't worth the angst. Prior to that, though, the only repair I had to do was to the exhaust system.
- laura x
Pleione taught me that above-bargain-basement drivetrain components pay for themselves in less repair. *glares at Shimano*
- RepoRat
yup. Jacaranda has an Alfine internal hub, and it's glorious. but the Tourney derailleur is crap, and so is their low-price twist-shifter.
- RepoRat
I agree with Spidra on the frame & fork part. Although in the last 10 years technology, design and materials have made huge leaps, in that department.
- Guy
Anybody know anything about this: Forecasting Next Generation Libraries: A Virtual Course-ference July - August 2013: http://nextgenlibraries.org/
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Got an email asking me to help promote the thing, whatever a course-ference is. Speaker list has some of the issues these sorts of things tend to have.
- John Dupuis
lots of white dudes?
- RepoRat
that, and all-officers-no-enlisted, I see.
- RepoRat
Bingo.
- John Dupuis
It's also unclear to me who exactly is organizing this. Is it the consultant dude? The person who emailed me?
- John Dupuis
NITLE seems to be at the bottom of the pile somewhere.
- RepoRat
Only $25, I might give it a shot. Also, Michael Nielsen is speaking in the technology slot!
- Joe Boone
Ah, that. Yes, just some individuals at Carthage College, or perhaps as part of Wisconsin Library doings. One of the organizers is Lizz Zitron, who I had the pleasure of working with when she was in Library school. She is very good people. I think it's a legit professional development thing, done for the good of the whole.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
It looks interesting, but also looks vaguely pyramid-y. I'm intrigued.
- kendrak
And I have to say that, while there are some white dudes, it's a fairly diverse set of speakers. (There's only one speaker who I might pay $25 *not* to listen to, and these days that's a pretty good track record.)
- Walt Crawford
uh, I count about 70% white dudes. that is not representative of librarianship, and I doubt it's representative of education or publishing either. Tech, yeah, sure, it's diverse as tech goes.
- RepoRat
And starring James Falco as Terry Reese! http://nextgenlibraries.org/technol...
- Steele Lawman
Steele- Freaks and Geeks era Franco for sure.
- kendrak
Oops. That's Franco. My bad.
- Steele Lawman
Imagine James Franco playing Tav Falco!
- kendrak
I wouldn't sign up for this because they are calling it a Course-Ference which fuck that shit. But aside from that and the other issues mentioned above, this looks not horrible?
- Steele Lawman
"This looks not horrible."
- Joe Boone
You think they want that as a blurb? For the right price, I'd be amenable. But it would have to include the question mark.
- Steele Lawman
They totally need an endorsements page.
- laura x
Info I just got from Lizz: Carthage College in Kenosha, WI is hosting a virtual conference on Forecasting Next Generation Libraries (http://www.nextgenlibraries.org) from July 1-August 19. This conference aims to help (mostly academic, but all are welcome!) librarians examine the past and their present in order to help forecast their future. Additionally, we'll hear from publishers,...
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- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I agree with the not horribleness. It's probably well worth the $25. The panel format would have been easy to adapt to adding the occasional early- or mid-career rather than focusing on director of this or director of that.
- John Dupuis
I like Josh Morrill a lot. He works very closely with my partner on research questions involving use of digital resources by students. He's super smart and very data and evidence oriented, and also is very useful in terms of thinking about evaluation and assessment. There is a personal bias there, but we've had him come here to do some teaching about methods, and my sense from people is that he was well received.
- Sarah
The more I think about it, the more I think Pygmy goats are the answer to my pet needs.
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Well, have fun having Smiley there full time.
- sglassme
I heard that goats can't be house-trained, though.
- Andrew C (✓)
They'd be outside all the time
- Sarah G.
Statistics Dashboard | Traverse Area District Library - http://www.tadl.org/stats/
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holy smokes, i love this.
- holly #ravingfangirl
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wow
- Jenica
Bleepers. that is awesome.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
this is now a visual in my next preso.
- RepoRat
I do not recognize ANY of the most popular books. I do, however, highly recommend "Searching for Sugarman". It is an odd documentary about the most popular American musician you've never heard of.
- DJF
1,215 puppets!
- Steele Lawman
WANT. WANT. OMG WANT. Anyone know how they are doing this? [ETA] Oh, apparently they are using Evergreen. I bet they have a person.
- laura x
I love that the collection stats at the bottom include items withdrawn from the collection.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
they are also using this for the display: http://www.highcharts.com/
- holly #ravingfangirl
Wow, that's beautiful
- Hedgehog
this is awesome.
- Andy
This is so very cool. Congrats to the team who put this together!
- Laura Krier
I sent this to my director yesterday and she has already forwarded it on to people and said "let's make this happen". woo!
- holly #ravingfangirl
want.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Shiny. Also want.
- Heather
I've been asked to write a chapter for a book about motherhood and mental illness, to be published by Springer. A quick search of the archives here tells me that Springer is one of the less evil of the big science publishers, but I want to know before I start what my possibilities are for self-archiving, etc. Where do I start, lazyweb?
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Sherpa ROMEO
- Hedgehog
self archiving is probably fine, but you won't get a very liberal reuse license (ie, you won't get a reuse license). You will have to write self archiving into the contract, and you'll have to make sure that it doesn't just say "institutional repository", since I doubt that your employer runs such a thing.
- DJF
It's also worth considering that sometimes a particular book has terms differing from the generic publisher's terms, so I think that's a reasonable thing to ask the editor...
- Marianne
You could submit it with a SPARC addenda to maintain author rights. http://www.sparc.arl.org/author...
- Joe Boone
With a book, everything's on the table. Figure out what you want and ask 'em for it. :)
- RepoRat
Okay. So I'm thinking what I want (since I have no institutional repository) is to be able to CC license my chapter and put it on my website (although maybe Iowa would let me put it in their repository, too, since I already have something else there?). I am wondering how much the book editors (who are MDs and may not be up on all this) will need me to explain, or how I should go about...
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- laura x
also: yay, you!
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
if Iowa's IR balks, consider E-LIS.
- RepoRat
RR, would E-LIS be interested in an essay about motherhood and mental health that will likely have nothing to do with libraries?
- laura x
At Catherine's excellent suggestion, I started by asking the editor who would retain copyright, explaining that I would like it if I did so I could self-archive, etc. Response: "Springer will own the copyright. This is how they typically operate and is spelled out in our contract. Because we are only asking for approx 2000 words, we did not feel this should infringe too much on other writings our authors have mentioned they are in the process of. Hope that won't preclude you from contributing." HEAD.DESK.
- laura x
as an aside, Laura, HOW COOL IS THIS?!?
- maʀtha
Well, "I've been asked" was a little presumptuous on my part--I saw the call and pitched them a chapter. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to explain open access to a very busy MD who clearly has no idea what it's about.
- laura x
Wrote back, with my mom's suggested language: "Thank you for your prompt response. Let me explain briefly why I’m interested in copyright; I know that doctors are busy (my mom is), and that open access in scholarly publishing is not high on their radar. What I want to do is self-archive, so that I can guarantee open access to anyone—not commercially, but in interest of freedom of...
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- laura x
WELL DONE.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I'm not sure I can swing gold OA, but I feel like even green would be a victory.
- laura x
nicely said!
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
awesome
- maʀtha
well done! good for you.
- Heather Piwowar
Fantastic response.
- Meg V. Meg
Is it weird to still use the old business letter format with the mailing address of the sender and recipient? I mean, I'm not physically mailing it anywhere, but it looks wrong without it somehow. (for a cover letter)
I always do even though it is a little weird.
- laura x
what laura x said. I make my students do it on cover letters, too.
- RepoRat
Yep. What Laura said.
- Catherine Pellegrino
If you don't use a formal layout of some kind, it devolves into casual email. So, since a standard layout is needed, the one we're all used to makes sense. <-- my $0.02
- Bill Hooker
I do it for thing like cover letter and recommendations.
- kaijsa
Way I figure it (and this is what I tell my students), a little extra unnecessary formality never did nobody no harm; that's why you dress one level up from your prospective employers for an interview. Whereas if you omit the formality and end up in front of a stickler for etiquette, you're screwed.
- RepoRat
Thanks, all.
- Rachel Walden
Psst…Hey Buddy! Wanna See A Live Duck Cam? — Cute Overload - http://cuteoverload.com/2013...
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Our duckcam made Cute Overload.
- laura x
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whoa. the big leagues. :)
- Marianne
Spelling is so critical in certain posts...
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Nice!
- Yvonne
DuckCam Woo-ooo (now I have Ducktails eaworm)
- Hedgehog
Perhaps I've straying too much on Tumblr lately. My mind went where it shouldn'ta. (Also, I don't know if that's the proper idiomatic spelling of "shouldn'ta" as a contracted version of "shouldn't of" which is a incorrect idiomatic usage for "shouldn't have"... but I digress.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Today while Sunday Librarianing, I start Project Digitize Binders From My Formal Education:
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Whee?
- LB: #TeamMonique
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oh, now that's a good idea. are you scanning to PDF or what?
- Marie
Yep, scanning to PDF
- lris
So far, I found the toast I gave to my baby brother in speech class, and my "electronic communications" class wherein I learned to save files and change fonts in WordPerfect 7 during the week labeled "Power tools and system software."
- lris
88 pages of notes from taking my dad's super-scary required course as a sophomore.
- lris
Freshman and Sophomore years done. Only 6 more years to go...
- lris
Digitize and dispose of?
- Steele Lawman
yes
- lris
this is a very good idea. I wonder if I could get my husband to agree to it. At least for the dang Chinese he hasn't looked at in twenty years.
- RepoRat
I'm about to chuck out my notes from undergrad. So long Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, and Middle High German. Well... maybe not Middle Dutch. My translations of Eulenspiegel are hilarious.
- kendrak
I did the same thing years and years ago. Except I didn't scan them first. In many cases, I didn't take them first.
- Steele Lawman
Iris helped me throw mine out a few years go. i haven't missed them a bit
- maʀtha
Every now and then I go through all my stuff and toss a little more. There are some things I'm glad I've kept, but most are just food for silverfish.
- Deborah Fitchett
steve, if i find the notebook of the nazi history class i took where you can clearly see where i fell asleep each week, i'll scan a page. i eventually gave up towards the end.
- kendrak
"Food for silverfish" is going to be my new nasty epithet
- maʀtha
you people don't move often enough if you've still got that stuff.
- DJF
i'm still in the same apartment i lived in when i took some of those classes!
- kendrak
I've moved several times...
- lris
I threw out most of my notes from college and grad school. In fact, I remember burning physics notes.
- Laura H.
Oh yes, I had a burning notes party with some of my friends from my math class. Good times. :-)
- lris
I had no idea people kept notes. I rarely kept them in class. (Hello, soulmate Steve!)
- barbara fister
To be fair, I was a theatre major and spent most of my time pretending I was a lion or pretending I knew how to use a pneumatic nail gun, or something like that. Can't put that kind of real-world experience in a binder.
- Steele Lawman
All I have from my formal education is my undergrad dissertation, my Masters dissertation, and a few notes from my library course.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Who would win in a fight, a giant silverfish with a binder in each claw, or a lion with a nail gun?
- Jason P
I used to take all my notes home and dump them in my childhood bedroom. That backfired when my mom made me bring them all home with me when I moved them to La Crosse. I spent a long weekend reliving most of college, which brought down the amount of paperwork considerably. Still need to plug in my scanner and get the rest of it digitized.
- Hedgehog
DJF, I moved 14 times in 10 years, and I still have all that crap.
- laura x
The last time (15 years ago or more) that I had to scan important documents, the OCR capability proved pretty marginal. I'm guessing that they've improved substantially? At the time I mostly just tossed stuff, cases and cases of stuff, because we were moving from Seattle to the Twin Cities and my spouse said "No way we're moving all of that crap." Haven't missed it since.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
And yes, the silverfish factor played a role in my decision.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
It's been a lot of fun looking at some of this stuff again. Who knows if I'll look at it ever again, but maybe in another 10 or 15 years I'll page through again and have another nostalgia fest.
- lris
my eternal problem is figuring out what undergrad English texts to keep or give away. Even though I don't really like classic literature, I'm always so conflicted about "but it's Norton's Anthology of [whatever], it's classic!"
- MontglaneChess
Oh yeah. I still have my Nortons. I will NEVER read them. Even if I want to read things in them, I'd read them in separate volumes.
- lris
What barbara sez. Class over: Notes gone.
- Walt Crawford
Burning math and physics notes. Blasphemy, I tell ya.
- Joe Boone
Burning chemistry notes, on the other hand, seems entirely appropriate. Even better if you could get them to explode or dissolve somehow.
- Steele Lawman
Hydrochloric acid should do the trick.
- Joe Boone
I took notes in lecture/exam courses but not really in discussion/project courses. I kept all my papers, though, except the ones from one course. I wish I hadn't tossed those because there was a lot of drama surrounding that course and I want to remember what I actually wrote.
- lris
I have notes I took in GRADE SCHOOL.
- laura x
I would be such a terrible archivist. I throw away ALL THE THINGS. Wait, maybe I would be a half-good archivist.
- barbara fister
The babies (23mo) dropped one of their naptimes So we are down to one nap around 11 now.
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Can they at least start sleeping through the night in their own beds now? Isn't that a fair trade?
- adf
ha! I'll have to start the negotiations when they wake up
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
The 15 month old baby here went down to one nap when he was a year old. And he was up from 3-5:30 am.
- laura x
I'm SO sorry
- Jason - The Opaque
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Maybe you got two naps for so long because you have two babies? That seems fair. Miss Emily dropped down to one nap some time before 18 months. I can't remember exactly. Blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Maybe :) right now I would love it if the boy didn't wake up right when we were going to bed EVERY SINGLE NIGHT
- Jason - The Opaque
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Saturdaybrarian:
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QL How did you know where the logout button was on the new hotmail? A: Well, I've been using the web for a long, long time....
- laura x
heh heh heh.
- Marianne
This one is looking to be quiet broken up by the MADNESS that is having 3 programs in one day.
- Andy
Q: So I need a different username and password for every job I apply to? A: ... sadly, probably, yes. Q: So how many do I need? A: About 500?
- laura x
The worst part of Saturdaybrarian is that I'm at the ref desk and my mom and Peter are at storytime one wing over. Sniff.
- laura x
But they did come visit me. Peter immediately took off my nametag and put it in his mouth.
- laura x
^^^ like.
- barbara fister
Well that was different. My shower was interrupted by police pounding on the bathroom door demanding to know if it was me in there.
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We've had a spate of dog murders near by, and I was taking most of the morning off, and my upstairs neighbor thought I was an intruder.
- lris
...wow.
- Jenica
Omigosh. Scary
- maʀtha
How did the y get in?
- maʀtha
Gah!
- LB: #TeamMonique
My neighbor let them in. Two squad cars in front, and two detectives in back.
- lris
eeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
- RepoRat
She could have warned you!
- maʀtha
holy shit... why would a dog murdering intruder take a shower in your apartment?
- Christina Pikas
She did try, but I didn't hear my cell phone ring. Then when she heard the shower start she'd already called the cops and they wanted to be very sure. She did the right thing. It was just all very weird.
- lris
That's one way to get a date. Bazinga! *waggles eyebrows* I bet that was the cops' best call all day.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
oh, gosh, i would've had a heart attack. *hugs lris*
- Marianne
Yikes! So after you told them it was you, what happened next? Did they patiently wait for you to get dressed or did you have to talk to them through the closed bathroom door?
- Stephen le Francoeur
Holy cow.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
"Is that you?" "Yes, it's totally me."
- c.a.j.
Wow, so, what do they do for real crime in your neck of the woods? Cause a burglary would not get that response here.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I never saw them. My neighbor knew my voice and they went away. Though the detectives hung around outside for a bit.
- lris
wow, that's scary intense!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I think you have good neighbors. Good intentioned at least.
- SteVe C
Better check if one of the detectives has a FriendFeed account. I'm sure this pic http://ff.im/1fnnvE gave them ample reason to hang around.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
holy cow. I have no idea how I'd react to that, but I imagine not so well. good on ya!
- t-ra: not givin up
The drama continues. Apparently when they came to check on me, the police saw something suspicious next door. Half the police department has been camped out there all day.
- lris
good heavens.
- maʀtha
ruh roh. Everybody take a step back and breathe. Cleveland fall out?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Use your laser eyes on them.
- Joe Boone
WOW! My neighbor is arrested, suspected of being the dog murderer! All the people are over there just waiting for a search warrant to go through the house. At least that's what it looks like from this. http://www.southernminn.com/northfi...
- lris
The one who let them in your house?????? *aniticipatory whoa*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
yowza!
- Marie
yikes
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
aiee.
- Marianne
No MoTO, not my upstairs neighbor. People in the house next door.
- lris
Well *whoa* anyway. And also *whew*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
That sounds incredibly scary. I'm glad your neighbor is observant though I'd probably crawl out of my skin at shower/door knocking. Glad they knocked before coming in? Also crazy re: your neighbor arrested.
- Hedgehog
Luckily for me, my upstairs neighbor has to come through my apartment to use the laundry, which she normally does on Fridays. So I assumed she'd come through to do that and seen something, like maybe a fire? (I always worry about fire), and needed to tell me about it. I didn't realize there were actual burly policemen in my house with her.
- lris
Well, after all that excitement I'll bet you need a cold shower. Yikes. I would have freaked.
- Spidra Webster
Back up. Neighbor has to go into your apartment every time she wants to do laundry? What if you're out of town? What if you don't like the neighbor or the neighbor is creepy?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
It's up to me whether I want to offer access to the laundry or not. The building used to be a single family home, so there's a stairway with a door at the bottom that separates our two apartments. My upstairs neighbor and I are good friends, so we just leave that unlocked and have agreed that she will do her laundry on Fridays during the day unless she lets me know otherwise.
- lris
It's official. They released his name and address, and it's my next door neighbor.
- lris
Yikes.
- Meg V. Meg
WOW.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Scary!
- Jen
Crazy.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Wow!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
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
from Bookmarklet
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
from iPhone
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
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