Guess who drank too much last night? Everyone! It’s hangover day here at South by Southwest. The panels are slow and attendance is low. This morning I went to a panel debating the merits of ignoring users. It matched my mood nicely. User profiles are taking a beating this year….

I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they arrived. If you are a Cornell student or staff, you can have library books delivered to any library-location…

I got my New York Public Library card in the mail today. Anyone who lives in New York state is eligible for a card, so I now have access to the library’s impressive collection of online resources. I spent the morning refreshing my Spanish at the NYPL’s Online Language Learning…

Tomorrow morning I’m getting on a luxury Cornell bus to New York City (the place I don’t live, despite everyone’s impression when I say I’m from New York State) for a week long vacation. Yes, I said vacation. For possibly the first time in years, I’m traveling for non-work reasons….

Tonight’s post has been preempted by the Cornell Swing Club’s last dance of the semester. Erica will be attending and trying to improve her shoddy 8-count swingout. You will be returned to your regularly scheduled post in three hours. Thank you.

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…

I called in sick to work today, with a sore throat and general upper-respiratory grossness. I spent the day lying on the couch with cats floating on pillows around me. Our two cats are huge wooly monsters. Rescued from cat-jail, they resemble bobcats more than housecats. Fortunately, they don’t seem…

I’m heading out to my second day of Cornell Supervisor Training in a few minutes. We’ll be spending the entire day focusing on HR law. I anticipate a healthy round of “I’m not TOUCHING YOOOU!” from my coworkers afterward. Accompanied by jabbing index fingers. I’m speaking from experience here, folks.