14 Weird things I’ve learned this week

on May 18 in Beekeeping, Books, Librarianship, Life, Research Obsession, San Francisco, Tech by
  1. Queen Bees are expensive
  2. It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca
  3. Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book
  4. Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare
  5. Roccapulco is a salsa club in San Francisco. I’m going next week with my friend Jake
  6. The Lunch Meeting is the gold standard for interviews at eBay

    7. Oldschool Metadata
  7. You can randomly teleport somewhere in Second Life and end up getting juggled by a large pink elephant
  8. Hotels in San Francisco are way cheaper than hotels in NYC. Jobs in San Francisco pay way better than jobs in NYC.
  9. All it took for me to get my finances in shape was to get some software with a decent interface
  10. The only cure for pregnancy-induced hypertension is childbirth (hi clay!)
  11. My friend Josh has taken over things digital at the NYPL
  12. Adobe CS3 will steal your soul with its compelling beauty
  13. Google Analytics has a new interface that will steal whatever bit of your soul is leftover after Adobe gets done with you
  14. Half of you people are still using Internet Explorer. I’m saddened. Please, for the love of all things holy: Use Firefox 2

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Author: Erica Firment

Erica Olsen Firment is an omnivorous mammal of the genus Ailurus, having an endothermic physiology and a long, furry tail. Erica's range extends to both deciduous and coniferous forests, and can often be found at Linden Lab, working on the user interface for Second Life.

This author's website address is http://librarianavengers.org

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