Peter receives a copy of The Snowy Day from BOTH my elementary school librarians, who came to pay us a visit last week. (Both now work part time in the good local bookstore; one also works part time at my library.)
I love that book. Used to read it to Waif all the time, like me mudder read it to me. *sniff*
- MoTO Bott
They also brought him a Peter doll to go with it.
- laura x
Every little boy named Peter should have this book in his life :) I loved it, Jayden loved it...it's a perfect lil kid book :)
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Life has reached the point in my America that every time I read a news article I first must verify if it or is not from 'The Onion' because really content and context no longer provide the needed cues #justsayin
This beautiful card came today from my Waldorf classmates. Inside it reads, "Dearest Nakachi, the seeds we have sown together will continue to grow, ripen and bear fruit. As a token of our love and gratitude, we would like to come work in your garden for a day. With love, the Class of 2013." #SomethingInMyEye
Oh, now see I thought the minions were people on OUR side who'd tweeted anti-Elsevier stuff. Had no idea they were actual Elsevier employees. This gets better and better. *pops popcorn*
- Catherine Pellegrino
I'd think the next step with minions would be to call out prominent academics who haven't boycotted.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Now we've got @ClosedAccessJ as well as what appears to be the "real" Elsevier at @ElsevierScience. How long before a C&D is issued, I wonder? (I am also cracking up at @gluejar and @OpenAccessHulk. It is a fine day on the twitters.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
OMG @FakeElsevier IS GOING AFTER NPG NOW. Whoever this is, I love you, and I'd have your children if I weren't spayed! (And, Grace Baynes? Whinging about how the satirical accounts are "going too far" is REALLY SERIOUSLY not helping your case.)
- RepoRat
And the most recent arrival is @FakePLoS
- Graham Steel
Fakenature fakenpg fakespringer already taken, but fakewiley is still available...
- Just Joe
@FakeEisen is the latest. The genuine Eisen is @mbeisen.
- RepoRat
Ouch, the FakeEisen is a bit mean. An Elsevier staffer, no doubt. How about a FakeLibraryLoon? FakeHarnad?
- John Dupuis
If somebody wants to do that, I'm guessing the Loon won't interfere. The Loon is pretty small potatoes, though. Eisen's a big deal. Also, DO NOT TEMPT ME TO DO A FAKE HARNAD.
- RepoRat
Elseviley is open, as is ElsevileyTF. (I used to use ElsevileyVerlag back in the day, but Springer is so much less awful than the usual run of awful that I give 'em a pass these days.)
- RepoRat
Wait, isn't this the same group who mutters about another anonymous librarian?
- awd
RR: You couldn't do a FakeHarnad on Twitter. The man barely gets started at 140 characters. AWD: I don't think most of us care who they/he/it/she are/is any more, we just think them's a troll.
- Walt Crawford
FakeHarnad's gig would have to be 140-char summaries of Harnad posts/comments. Tricky but doable.
- RepoRat
You use the plural, "summaries." That suggests that boiling down Harnad's comments would yield more than one terse summary. "OA: Green is the only, optimal and inevitable path. Disagree and you're evil." Lessee...was that >140 characters?
- Walt Crawford
They are ridiculously good, but I'm going to have to give most of them away tomorrow so that I don't have them around.
- Katy S
Forgive her her brownies as she forgives us who eat of her brownie pan.
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Oh, I think the sinnin' don't start until they cool down from the HELL FIRE IN WHICH THEY WERE BAKED!!!! errr....Sorry about that. Do enjoy! :)
- caj needs a haircut
In all seriousness, though, this is the problem when you are trying to watch your weight, but you have a sweet tooth and bake really well.
- Katy S
I wish I lived close enough to you to help you out of that jam!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I'm on a committee for a conference, and we're trying to figure out who the speakers will be. I'm reminding folks that the small group of us may not be fully equipped to come up with suggestions that address the diversity concerns raised about a related conference, and am trying to open up the process to solicit input from a wider range of folks. Makes more work (which I've volunteered to take on), but so far I have some support for doing this.
- Rachel Walden
Which probably sounds kind of boring. But I've never done one of these committees before, so I was reluctant to jump in and ask us to do something more, or to question/alter the process thus far.
- Rachel Walden
GO YOU. Thank you for doing the extra work.
- RepoRat
Not boring! We need more diverse, interesting conference speakers. Good for you!
- Kaijsa
Excellent! I hope it works out well for you.
- Hedgehog
go go go! if you need suggestions, let us know
- marthalib
Good friends. Of the old and new variety. People who you can laugh a lot with and be super serious with. The folks who love you no matter what and give you the boost you need to get through life. Thank you.
To help explain this thread: http://friendfeed.com/lsw... to my director, I came up with the following logo, which I hereby release to the proletariat:
Thrilled to share the excellent news that LSW's own Jen Holman (http://friendfeed.com/jsholman) received a most deserved promotion to Associate Professor! Congratulations Jen, on the recognition of your excellent work! *raises glass of champagne and passes the bottle of bubbly along with a silver platter of exquisite chocolate*
Great discussion in class today about peer-review, databases and journals, and scholarly publishing. The students spontaneously asked these questions: Don't all the reviewers in the peer-review process know each other? What about pharmaceutical companies funding studies? Who funds the journals? Why don't they go broke? How much do these journals
my beloved Browsercam will soon cease. i use(d) it to log into a remote server farm to test off-campus access and resolve problems with e-resources. do you know of any other product like this?
I've used Anonymouse.org before to get an "outside" IP to test remote access to databases. That or turning off the wireless on my phone/iPad and using the cell network. Either way - I get an IP that isn't a library-issued one and I can see what the outside users see.
- Webgoddess Needs A Drink
this looks promising. ideally i'd like to find another server farm product. i could log in to browsercam from my pc and test problems that only mac users have, or test a problem on a pc that uses a different version os. sigh. it was so perfect.
- Marie
This is probably a worse idea, but our e-resources people got two "off-campus" data ports and hooked up a Mac and a Win7 machine to them so they can test stuff. It's pretty handy.
- Kaijsa