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aversion therapy

Sunday, May 24, 2009

It was occurring to me as I made the sixteen hour slog home from Atlanta, that there’s some weird part of me that really likes complicated traveling plans. I’ve mentioned it here before a few times. The more different modes of transportation, the more connections, the more stops, the happier I am. I used to [...]

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breathing room

Monday, November 17, 2008

The birds on the window feeder are officially winter colors now, though the snow hasn’t started in earnest. In fact over the weekend it was a bit of a steambath here which was disquieting. The albino porcupine I read about in the paper is going to blend right in real soon now. I’m done travelling [...]

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you thought maybe I was joking?

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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.

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away

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

So as of tomorrow evening I’ll be on my way to Dubai for ten days including about a day of not-so-bad travel each way. We just got about a foot of snow yesterday. I like snow, a lot. However, the beginning of the end of surefootedness on the ground I walk on takes me by [...]

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represent

Sunday, November 18, 2007

A very busy week is wrapping up here. A very busy week is starting tomorrow. Today is a missing empty day between them.
Last week I went to Providence to give a talk that I briefly mention on librarian.net. It was about agitprop which is a topic that I always assume people know about, but apparently [...]

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travelling, pimping, sleeping

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

My talk at Computers in Libraries went really pretty well. There were a few hundred people — librarian types mostly — who heard my Pimp My Firefox talk.
At the point at which I heard the woman on the train next to me coughing, I knew I might be coming down with something. I’ve had a [...]

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