{"id":340,"date":"2009-05-13T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-05-13T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T03:23:27","slug":"party-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/party-of-one","title":{"rendered":"party of one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/3529651536\/\" title=\"I think he sees me by jessamyn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2143\/3529651536_b70c9c6d5e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"I think he sees me\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a few more mixtape recordings and attached the mp3s to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157617794838822\/detail\/\">accompanying photos over on Flickr<\/a>. Since I&#8217;m often hanging out at the computer for work or for play, pressing <em>record<\/em> while I&#8217;m doing that is just not that difficult. I&#8217;m a little surprised I&#8217;m doing this while the weather is nice, not crappy. I&#8217;ve also recorded a few &#8220;hey you made this tape for me&#8221; tapes that are not popular music, so they&#8217;re not part of the public  listing but maybe soon will be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Spring which means my landlady was in the backyard trying to chop down a tree and I have stopped wearing socks. Well I did stop until the temperature plunged into the 40s a few nights ago and I put the socks right back on. I did put my sweaters away however, so that&#8217;s either a sign that Spring has come, or a come hither nod to a huge blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>My talk at MLA went fine. I felt it suffered from a lack of narrative, but I&#8217;m always my own worst critic. My talk was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/talks\/mla2009\/index.html\">Intellectual Freedom and Social Software<\/a> and it went pretty well. I had a quick trip to Springfield MA which was a lot of fun. That trip was bordered on two sides by visits to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunbridgelibrary.org\/\">Tunbridge Library<\/a> where I have slowly and with help been putting barcode stickers on books as  part of our slow crawl towards automation. I had the genius idea to do a work party, but chose Mother&#8217;s Day as the day for it (dates and times and especially holidays are often a bit of a furze to me) and as a result it was a party of one. That said, I got 900 books stickered. That said it&#8217;s difficult sometimes to have a party that no one comes to. I&#8217;ll try to plan better next time.<\/p>\n<p>Other big news is that my digital divide book proposal about tech training in the unconnected library &#8220;Without a\/the Net&#8221; has been approved (accepted? okayed?) by <a href=\"http:\/\/lu.com\/\">Libraries Unlimited<\/a>. Haven&#8217;t seen the contract yet. Pretty excited and a little aghast at myself for taking on another project, but this is one I&#8217;ve been wanting to do. Wondering if writing books about technology is approaching the &#8220;dancing about architecture&#8221; realm of nonsense. Hoping that&#8217;s not true for another few years maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/party-of-one\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to party of one\"><p>I&#8217;ve made a few more mixtape recordings and attached the mp3s to their accompanying photos over on Flickr. Since I&#8217;m often hanging out at the computer for work or for play, pressing record while I&#8217;m doing that is just not that difficult. I&#8217;m a little surprised I&#8217;m doing this while the weather is nice, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,4,367,108,33,366,15],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","tag-mixtapes","tag-music","tag-spring","tag-tech","tag-vermont","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}