Librarian Avengers » geek http://librarianavengers.org Pugilistic Periodicalistas Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:46:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Me, bouncing around onstage at an O’Reilly Conference http://librarianavengers.org/2009/07/me-bouncing-around-onstage-at-an-oreilly-conference/ http://librarianavengers.org/2009/07/me-bouncing-around-onstage-at-an-oreilly-conference/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:02:53 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=864
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    Erica undergoing a brief moment of Muppetface

    Erica undergoing a brief moment of Muppetface

    Last week I spoke at OSCON Ignite, the evening entertainment bit of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and the Google Awards.

    Talks took the traditional Ignite format of five minutes, 20 slides. Slides auto-advance after 15 seconds, ready or not.

    Speakers were encouraged to address their personal brand of geekery. I chose to talk about the Librarian Avengers Film Rating System, which addresses some movie metadata I’d like to see. Things like “This film contains a Creepy child Singing” and “Warning! Sylvester Stallone!”

    OSCON Ignite is online at blip.tv here

    My bit starts around (44:45), but stick around for the whole thing. Make sure to check out Kirrily’s talk on Geeky Things you can Do with Textiles, and Liz Henry talking about the barriers to wheelchair hacking.

    The format kept everyone pithy, and although I had to speak before the amazing Damian Conway, I didn’t throw up from stage fright once!

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    Who needs the bathroom mirror when you’ve got a built in camera on your laptop?


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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2009/03/imirror/feed/ 2     Nerdcore Rap Battles in which I have participated… http://librarianavengers.org/2007/09/nerdcore-rap-battles-in-which-i-have-participated/ http://librarianavengers.org/2007/09/nerdcore-rap-battles-in-which-i-have-participated/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:06:59 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/2007/09/24/nerdcore-rap-battles-in-which-i-have-participated/
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    In my new role as a user experience goon at Second Life, I’m often called upon to participate in rap battles with other employees.

    Because we’re all busy, rap battles tend to be text-only and asynchronous, conducted over IRC, twitter, or instant messenger.

    Past themes have included: My prowess as a Developer, My (imaginary) Car, Linden Lab Office Culture, and Various Programming Languages.

    Below are a few examples of my amazing rap power, mostly gleaned from IM logs. Enjoy responsibly, and please remember check yourself before you wreck yourself.

    Killing jira issues like Rambo kills commies / Tasks and subtasks crying for their mommies /As&Os got me going mental / Yoz wants to rap but he’s too CONTINENTAL

    Chillin wit’ Jonhenry / Talking ’bout JIRA / Drank me some coffee / Wish it was a beerah

    open up email to try and cat-heard / 60 threads later / time is going backward / I just get in when wham! it’s lunch / wtf have I done besides data-crunch?

    think you bad / ’cause you so much taller? / you may be blue / but I’m white collar / rollin’ in my office working on a search / you think you’re rapping but its SO MUCH WORSE

    Kickin’ it smoove in my GTO / ops wants to have a meeting / but I’ve got ta go!

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    The webcomic xkcd has the goods on librarians this week:
    The Advantages to Dating Librarians

    It’s true. It’s so so true. The librarian Achilles Heel.

    Geeks: check out the alt tags for more funny.

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    1. Queen Bees are expensive
    2. It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca
    3. Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book
    4. Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare
    5. Roccapulco is a salsa club in San Francisco. I’m going next week with my friend Jake
    6. The Lunch Meeting is the gold standard for interviews at eBay

      7. Oldschool Metadata
    7. You can randomly teleport somewhere in Second Life and end up getting juggled by a large pink elephant
    8. Hotels in San Francisco are way cheaper than hotels in NYC. Jobs in San Francisco pay way better than jobs in NYC.
    9. All it took for me to get my finances in shape was to get some software with a decent interface
    10. The only cure for pregnancy-induced hypertension is childbirth (hi clay!)
    11. My friend Josh has taken over things digital at the NYPL
    12. Adobe CS3 will steal your soul with its compelling beauty
    13. Google Analytics has a new interface that will steal whatever bit of your soul is leftover after Adobe gets done with you
    14. Half of you people are still using Internet Explorer. I’m saddened. Please, for the love of all things holy: Use Firefox 2

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