Normaller updates resume this week, but this worked in a pinch. I had another nice weekend in the Eastern/Western MA area. A list of the talks I gave is over at librarian.net.
I did that stupid thing I sometimes do when I’m cooking for impending guests. I start too early so that I finish too early and then I try to get creative in the kitchen with all my “free” time. I was going to sweep and clean up during that time, but somehow my broom is [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The wikipedia deletion debate ended with a more-or-less consensus of “keep.” You can read, but please do not edit, the discussion which is now over, at Wikipedia. I hemmed and hawed about proposing a paper for the Wikimania conference and decided against it. I don’t know at this point if I’ll want to travel to [...]
I got back from the super-techie (as opposed to super-tetchy which can sometimes describe library conferences) SXSWi conference in Austin Texas, drove home through the snow, went almost immediately to sleep and woke up today to a few things.
The realization that the porch had not actually collapsed in my absence. Yay team!
A toothache that I [...]
The pool has still not fixed the broken phone and I’m not sure what to do about it except continue to ask “Have you fixed the phone yet?”
I’m pretty sure I got enough snow off the roof. When I went to swim at the pool I realized that I am all bruises up the arms [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Every so often I rue the fact that this part of my website is really more of a journally thing than a bloggy thing. Sometimes I have internet things that I want to refer to that don’t fit on librarian.net. This is one of those times. Here are those things.
I made a post on MetaFilter [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Talked to Ola and she says “April.”
Talked to my neighbor from Topsham. He had not called to tell me my house had fallen down, he had called to say hi and sorry for being a jerk a while ago. I forgave him.
My car, the one that was broken, that I gave away? Apparently it’s okay [...]
