Hi there – I’m on vacation. woo. Owl’s passed out next to me in a big long bundle of fur. Thanks for all of the great holiday decorating comments. You guys are hilarious and ever-so-various. I just wanted to follow up, because I think a few folks got the wrong…

Recently several people have asked me something that strikes fear into my cold and icy heart. The question is innocuous. The question is well-intended. The question makes me want to pull out my big librarian rubber stamp and do some smiting. The question: “Have you decorated your home for the…

I got a catalog in the mail the other day advertising the new deluxe version of the Librarian Action Figure. She comes with a book truck, and some extra books. Nice. Still, I think there should be a whole line of librarian action figures, including one with the earlier, discarded,…

147 members! That frappr map is actually starting to spook me. It’s one thing to write for a few people who I know are reading, (my family, a few ex-coworkers, the library school grrls) and a few theoretical people I suspect are reading, but to have them all laid out…

I just checked the frappr map, and dang you Librarian Avengers are so cute! And geographically disparate! All 81 of you. Gulp. Once I realized there are so many people out there willing to read about my battles with bad librarianship, scary interfaces, and look at photos of my grandma,…

If there’s one thing I love more than Google Maps mashups, it’s Google Maps mashups that let me see who is out there is reading this website. Besides my mom. Hi mom. Frappr is Friendster for maps. I made a Librarian Avengers frappr map so that we might all peer…

Those things I was complaining about in London? I’ve got documentation. I just started uploading the ten gajillion photos we took when we were overseas. There are more to come, but here are two fun ones involving British hotels and some baaaaad interface design. The first is our web-enabled tv…

This movie, with its fantastic effects, original cinematography, and great directing has convinced me to forgive the franchise completely for all of those spiders in the second film. Ok, I can’t restrain myself to one sentence. Believe it or not, I liked the latest Harry Potter movie even more than…