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 familiar with, the last provides [...]
Home, bandwidth charges
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!
HighEdWebDev 2006 – liveblogging
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 Search got a passing mention… [...]
Librarian duped by electricity, physics
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 I didn’t know you have [...]
USB for you and ME
I love ebay. Look what I got for my desk at work. You are jealous, I can tell. All this for .01 BGP. Plus shipping. Lots of shipping. I might be able to melt small travel-sized candles on it, too. An office full of web developers starts to smell funny after awhile.
The Rainbow of Librarian Haircolor
From a New York Observer Wedding Blog article on coloring your hair before the Big Day: I’ve been trying to perfect my hair color for over a year now. My natural color is sort of a “meh” librarian brown. In rebuttal, I direct you to this rainbow of librarian hair I made using librarian photos [...]
Collegetown?
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 would share.
Plagued by reference questions…
I haven’t worked at a reference desk for almost ten years, but I still get reference questions. I’m convinced that Librarians and Library Workers have some sort of radiant askability that compels people to ask us stuff. Like this confused gentleman here: I’m looking for photos of ‘The Avengers’… Alas, my friend, it’s Librarian Avengers, [...]
Another Extremely Accurate Librarian Costume.
This is the second sexy librarian costume I’ve found. One more and it’s officially a trend. This one is especially flattering. They call it a “Sexy Secretary” SLASH “Sexy Librarian” costume. Because as you know, the two jobs are interchangeable. Or at least the outfits seem to be. I love love LOVE that librarians are [...]
Reference Challenge!
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 to know how huge and [...]