Mimi Smartypants is my favorite blogger. I want to say more about her writing and why I enjoy it, but everything I type comes out like: “blarg! cliche! gush! gush!” So, I’ll just skip that and mention that she recently asked for comic book recommendations for her daughter. This woman…

One of my student employees, Katie, is being recruited by IBM. We’re proud of her, and not a bit surprised. Our other student, Zach, is trying to decide between working at Google or Amazon. They will be lucky to have him. One of the advantages to doing web development at…

These chair-bookcases make my librarian spidey senses tingle. I’ll take six for the Periodicals section of my mum’s library, and one for the UI books in my office. Link via Popgadget, which is a rad blog, btw

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…

I’ve had two bikes stolen in my lifetime. One was due to stupidity (no lock), the other was stolen by a gang of 14-year-old bike thieves. After twelve years and three college towns, I’ve learned to appreciate a good bike lock. This one is my favorite ever. Just thought I…

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…

Hee. One of the nifty things about having my library’s Animal Sound and Video collection available online, is I get to stumble across hilarious things in the course of my duties. Like this video of Mallard ducks doing a mating dance. Watching the ducks, I’m really reminded of this: Mah…

Eat my educational interactives baby! The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology project I designed won second place in Science magazine’s 2006 Visualization Challenge. Plus, we were on the front page of Der Spiegel last week, so Germans love us! What does this mean for you? It means you can now…