Mar
25
2006
Erica Firment
did a talk at a convention in Detroit a few weeks ago in which I encouraged people to become librarians. I started out with this quiz. Now it’s your turn.
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Am I Geeky enough to be a Librarian?
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| 1. I enjoy acronyms. |
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| 2. I own a cat. |
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| 3. When confronted with a pile of books I think "Hmm…first I would sort by author, then by title? |
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| 4. I am obsessive enough to appreciate the difference between 345.065 and 345.605. |
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| 5. I possess a useless undergraduate degree. |
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| 6. Being surrounded by books makes me lather with delight. |
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| 7. The idea of someone preventing me from reading Orwell because they don’t like it strikes me as Orwellian. |
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| 8. I am comfortable with the Internets. |
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| 9. If my house caught on fire, one of the things I would grab is my favorite book. |
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| 10. I possess a useless graduate degree. |
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| 11. I can daisy-chain a herd of Ubuntu boxes faster than you can say FreeBSD. |
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| 12. These kids today. I swear. If they would just read a damn book once in awhile, they wouldn’t be blowing each other up so much. |
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| 13. I could find out the middle name of your high school boyfriend with just ten minutes on the Internet. |
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| 14. I could find out the first line of A Tale of Two Cities with just ten seconds on the Internet. |
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| 15. I know the first line of A Tale of Two Cities. |
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| 16. I am a disenfranchised intellectual. |
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| 17. The idea of arming the public with knowledge appeals to me more than, say, arming them with pitchforks and torches. |
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| 18. I would rather do something cool than get rich. |
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| 19. I possess a useless doctoral degree. |
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| 20. I can say "Colon classification" without laughing. |
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Scoring
Under 5 = I think the “We hate libraries” meeting is down the hall.
5-10 = You are geeky, but can you HANDLE the acronyms?
10-15 = I’ve got some library school applications under my desk you big dork
15-20 = Quit your job immediately! Grab the nearest child and teach him to read! Oh, and start stocking up on acid-free paper.
59 comments | posted in Favorite Posts, Librarianship, Library school
Mar
22
2006
Erica Firment
t’s 4 am and I’ve got some sort of low-grade headcold. I can’t sleep. The only advantage to being awake in my house at 4am is the cat is so! happy! to see me! He’s overcome his usual aloofness and has wrapped himself around my neck.
We’re back from Austin, where much fun was had. SXSWi was twice the size as last year, which means it lost some of its outsider geek charm, but it made up for it with better programming, better planning, and a greater number of women both presenting and attending. There were actually lines in the women’s bathrooms this year, which I choose to see as an indication of a brand new influx of women in the I.T. professions.
Achoo. Ok, the cat is now upside down and dragging himself along the underside of the couch like a furry rock climber. It’s zero degrees outside and I have to go to work tomorrow whether I want to or not. People wear parkas here. Here’s some links.
Sheldon is a great webcomic about a 10-year-old dot com billionaire. I met Dave the author at one of the many social functions which have now blurred together in my sleep-deprived brain. I recall him being very funny. So’s his comic, so check it out. Start a few weeks back so you’ll catch up with the whole Zod thing.
There was a good dragon this year. Every year Cornell students build, parade, and burn a huge dragon. Dragon Day is a tradition, dammit. A century-old tradition that only makes the campus police slightly nervous. They skipped the riot gear this year, to the relief of all. Also, a giant rabbit was involved. I can’t believe I spent the last week complaining that nothing happens in Ithaca.
This is broken is a bad interface blog. It’s just like hanging out with an interface designer, except without the annoying tendency to critique interfaces while others are trying to enjoy themselves. Sorry friends and family. (yoinked from sivacracy)
Finally, you’ve been reading 50 Books haven’t you? Well why not? What, you don’t like books?
3 comments | posted in Comics, Cornell, Life, Links, SxSw
Mar
20
2006
Erica Firment
’m the only person in the world who dumpster-dives Martha Stewart Living.
1 comment | posted in Life
