The 70′s band Journey is kind of a big deal out here. Apparently they are from the Bay area, and there is a San Francisco civic statute requiring all radio stations to play Journey songs every three hours. Or, so I gather. While doing a deep textual analysis of the song Don’t Stop Believin’ (sic) [...]
Category Archives: Michigan
Library Tourism
I visited my local Bernal Heights library branch this afternoon, in search of a place to sit and read. It turned out to be one of the last weeks the building is open before it closes for an extensive renovation. On a kid-filled sunny spring Saturday, the current building gives the impression of being a [...]
Please listen to the following musical artists. Thank you.
I’m obsessed. You will be too. Scissor Sisters Amy Winehouse Feist The Detroit Cobras The Wailin’ Jennys Betty Davis
Four…
FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE Historical Reenactor (1800s) Historical Reenactor (Renaissance) Waitress/Bartender (Dublin) Designed a website for a group of Butterfly Researchers FOUR MOVIES YOU WATCH OVER AND OVER The Quiet Man A Room With a View The Commitments Standing in the Shadows of Motown FOUR CITIES YOU’VE LIVED IN Flint, MI East [...]
Michigan Alumni Nostalgia
I’m alone in the University of Michigan Science Library, enjoying free wireless (thanks to my alumni account) and a wealth of power outlets. I’m sitting in a window-alcove that overlooks campus, level with the green copper towers of West Hall. During school, I came here to watch the University’s resident Peregrine Falcon as he perched [...]
Flint Photos
I put up some photos from my recent trip home. Flint, MI. is the same as ever, but with a new 10% unemployment rate. Not to mention the State takover due to a bankrupt city treasury! Enjoy the squalor and car parts, folks.
Escape from Flint, MI
I returned to work this morning and jumped straight into an application QA test. It was one of those 10 emails a minute, every-tester-pointing-out-the-same-bug days. It was great. We got tons of feedback, and our application didn’t explode and leak metadata all over the desk. In other news, there is an inch of mold in [...]
Labor Day
I’m going to Flint tomorrow. I’ll be in town through Tuesday. I hope to visit my mom’s library on Friday, assuming I don’t expire from the cold I have developed. For your envy and amusement, my itinerary: I’m getting up at 4am so I can leave Ithaca at 4:30am so I can get to the [...]
Take my Comics…please
I’ve started a library at work. My cataloging system is the whiteboard over my desk. My patrons are co-workers and student employees whom I bully into taking books. My material? Comics. I’m on a mission from Groo. When I was a young Librarian Avenger, I spent many happy years working in the world’s largest cataloged [...]
Quiz
I 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. Am I Geeky enough to be a Librarian? Yes No 1. I enjoy acronyms. 2. I own a cat. 3. When confronted with a [...]