Archive of 2006 October

Site down for a bit tonight…

on October 31st, 2006 in Administrivia, Halloween by | 8 Comments

Hi everyone – Happy Halloween! I bought myself new web hosting today, so the site might be funky for a bit whilst I drag everything over. Fear not, I’m not going anywhere. I will be in Ann Arbor until Monday to ogle the Royal Shakespeare Company. I got a flu…

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Want to volunteer at the library? Pass a drug test, sister.

on October 30th, 2006 in Avenging, Librarianship by | 4 Comments

Ah, Gainesville. Come for the Snowy Egrets, stay for the affronts to human dignity! Bill Mahr at The Huffington Post wrote an excellent screed last week about Levy County Florida’s county-wide drug screening policy which has cut the library’s volunteer population by 3000%. Mahr is slightly fuzzy on the details…

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Amazon customer reviews: Bananas

on October 29th, 2006 in Links, Products, Shopping, Tech by | 1 Comment

I spent the afternoon poking around the more obscure areas of Amazon.com (It’s snowing, I’m lazy) and I came across a distributor that sells fresh groceries. The page layout is the same as any other Amazon product, the content is just a bit…different. I love reading what other people think…

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Star Wars Dog Costumes

on October 27th, 2006 in Halloween, Life by | 5 Comments

It’s Friday. Who needs serious content? Not I. Attention crazy dog people: If you must dress up your pet for Halloween, at least do it in style. Attention crazy cat people: Think your cat is big? Invite him to view this gallery of top 15 amazingly fat cats. All of…

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Virgin/Whore = Librarian/Librarian

on October 25th, 2006 in Avenging, Feminism, Halloween, Librarianship by | 3 Comments

Ah the joy of working in a traditionally female profession around Halloween! Take your pick, ladies and gentlemen, do you prefer your objectification in the form of Sexy Librarian, or Old Lady Librarian? Here are the search results from yet another hunt for Librarian costumes. The first two you may…

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Home, bandwidth charges

on October 25th, 2006 in Avenging, Life, Tech by | 6 Comments

Ok, what happened? Whose fault is this? I came home to this message from my web host: I’m honored of course, thanks ever so much…but CUT IT OUT!

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HighEdWebDev 2006 – liveblogging

on October 23rd, 2006 in Cornell, Tech by | 1 Comment

I got sent in as a pinch-hitter for this small local web conference for Higher Education. I’m listening to a keynote-speaker-who-shall-remain nameless reading Google’s mission statement. Which is interesting. At eight in the morning. Ok, this is interesting. He gets 36 work-related emails per hour at Google. The Google Book…

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Librarian duped by electricity, physics

on October 22nd, 2006 in Librarianship, Tech by | 3 Comments

What have I always said? Over and over? Do the research, people. Look it up! Well, the reason I always say this so I won’t keep making dumb mistakes. Like buying a USB cupwarmer that uses the wrong voltage. I knew you folks in the UK have funky electricity, but…

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