Look it up.
Target sells these INCREDIBLY accurate Librarian Halloween costumes in its online store.
Still, why spend $59.99 on a costume when we librarians can just open our closets and wear one of our many ALA-mandated cape/miniskirt combos?
Not to nitpick, but my book-skirt is a bit longer.
Update: Holy cow. Here’s another one.
I took this photo a few years ago at the March for Women’s Lives in Washington DC. Over a million people showed up. It got almost no press coverage, but those of us who went will never forget it.
I was lucky enough to run into this fellow librarian from Los Angeles.
We are everywhere. We are legion!
Photo by パックマン
10:40pm and I’m still at work.
Science Magazine is publishing a blurb about our library of animal sounds on Thursday. We got an award for second-best “educational interactive”. Yay.
Unfortunately, this means that a huge group of people are going to visit our site.
And our site was, up to a few weeks ago, still half-baked. We’ve got one of those higher education software teams, consisting of five underpaid geeks and a couple of CS students. Ebay, we are not.
These last few weeks have been a blur. Everyone on my team is pulling dot com hours, working for twelve hours on Sundays, and generally being foolish with work-life balance.
Tonight we ate dinner at the mall food court.
The weird part is, I love this.
I love the focus.
I love the commiseration.
I love the feeling of doing something good for the world that I get working at a nonprofit.
But right now, I would really love a beer and some sleep.
Goodnight, all.
My friend Alexandra was on Gothamist the other day holding this huge pickle.
Her archivist colleagues are all so proud. Finally, an Archivist Poster Girl!
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.
ViewScore aggregates gadget reviews from all over the web. If you are looking for a new digital camera or some other geeky device, you can view a well-designed sortable list of the best-reviewed gadgets, along with price and product details.
ViewScore is what Froogle wants to be, but is too huge to accomplish.
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 the bottom of my tea stein.
Hope you all had a good Labor day break. Here are my photos of Flint, for your morbid pleasure.
I ate at the Earthen Jar in Ann Arbor. I am full. And smug. Full of smug.
I miss this town. It’s big enough to be livable, but small enough to feel friendly and be full of trees.
If only Ann Arbor houses cost under a million dollars.
