Archive of employment

Hey, Library of Congress. Cut that shit out.

on May 1st, 2009 in Avenging, Books, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Librarianship, Women's health by | 12 Comments

Oh hello Library of Congress. I didn’t see you there. Nice running into you like this! You know, I’ve always admired your electronic resources and open-minded collections policies. My undergraduate university and career have both profited from your generous grantmaking, and your reading room sure is fun to visit when…

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On Graduating from School and Getting a Job

on May 14th, 2008 in Avenging, Career, Cornell, Digital Library, information science, Ithaca, Librarianship, Library school by | 4 Comments

I was crawling through my archives this morning and came across this little rant that I wrote years ago, during my first, horrible, post-grad school job at the Cornell University Library. I know several of you Gentle Readers are in school right now, and I thought you might enjoy the…

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Arr! Yahoo, prepare to be boarded!

on February 2nd, 2008 in Linden Lab, Second Life, Tech, Video games by | 2 Comments

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…

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