September 2011
2 posts
We’re hiring! Assistant head, Digital Collxns Northwestern Univ. Library. http://t.co/w98rG2jT come work with the funnest people around!
No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library http://t.co/8OkTzKR3
June 2011
3 posts
Real problem or red herring? Interesting, but v. thin on facts, http://ow.ly/5r0Ip “Academic pub…steps up…to stop piracy…” (Chronicle)
possible explanations
gimlet eye, bad breath, administrator crouch, subliminal leer.
March 2011
3 posts
carbs = happiness?
great stuff RT @jpalfrey: live-blog of #dpla session 3 notes, as we move to content that is in copyright or might be http://bit.ly/hJDjJ7
http://bit.ly/fckVM5 struggling … trying to understand this CMIS and UML, standard model not gonna be easy #pbtech
February 2011
3 posts
Adrian Johns speaking at NU Thurs, “Invention of Intellectual Property” http://www.library.northwestern.edu/node/2043
Gathering background about faculty/scholars commonses … any projects to recommend?
Hair
The real truth is, what I want most is to be able to keep and carry off rock and roll hair.
November 2010
9 posts
Really, brain? Problem solving at 2am? At least something other than bamboo, please. Couldn’t it be meal planning, imaginary films, etc.?
Doug Reside on the tile project http://bit.ly/9DwoCc (NU peeps: we need to make our crop tool work with this) #dhcs10
A. Ashton explaining Brown’s dig repo backdrop, including Shib-Fedora auth. http://bit.ly/b5pHjw #dhcs10
phase II the OAC will focus on deployment, including working with AlxStPr on streaming media annotation, very relevant for VarOnVid! #dhcs10
expressing open annotations as RDF (example of a tweet as scholarly annotation!) Tim Cole UIUC, OAC project #dhcs2010 #dhcs10
Praise/love for @zotero in the @omeka bootcamp sess #thatcamp chicago
getting excited about #thatcamp Chicago tomorrow reading up on @ryancordell groupings/panels http://bit.ly/bY9AkO // @thatcampchi
Somehow booked self 9-2 solid with 3 different viddy-webby-conference thingies. VoV, ACRLARLISC, Bamboo. Followed by dental torture. Awsim!
Hitting town early for @thatcampchi or #dhcs2010 ? Check out the cool stuff Block Cinema has on Thurs,Fri, Sat http://bit.ly/9TJFi9
February 2010
6 posts
At libes all day catching up on work, forgot to eat. Starved, Simpsons eating. Now covered in nacho chip rubble. Give up, go back to bed?
I don’t get the trader joes love, i feel like I spent 1/2 hour with the meanest people on earth (customers not staff) and the choices sucked
This weekend will be brought to you by KML, online bridge, and hopefully no thoughts or bad dreams about the last month at work.
Jura
A sad day for Evanston, council votes 6-3 in favor of closing north and south branch libraries. Only 3rd, 6th and 7th ward aldermen oppose.
Is the device at 2:12 really what it looks like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOKMxMjc8Mk (Ultravox, Dancing With Tears In Mu Eyes)
My first thought on hearing about Salinger this week was that the anti-fair use lawsuits might stop. Sad. Same first thought abt James Joyce
Wooden egg. Base for wooden egg. Painted rock slash owl. Scrimshaw. Tape dispenser…String sculpture…Reindeer bronze (2).
January 2010
5 posts
Clothes feel much too tight today. It’s not layering.
Maybe my best effort yet, smashed garlic potatoes, meatballs. Don’t know why they look so gross. Tasty. http://yfrog.com/3nbricj
No better way to start the new year than a bacon egg and cheese pie
December 2009
8 posts
Know what stinks? I can’t use my library catalog to find out basic info about any book unless my library actually owns it.
These MLA tweets are piquing my interest. Can someone report what went down last p.m. at “Cash Bar Arranged by the Marxist Literary Group” ?
Huevos a La Mexicana, El Cid. End of vacation farewell lunch.
Merry Christmas massive breakfast and gifts done time for RISK http://yfrog.com/3l106znj
Another day devoted to copyright evaluations for digitized books. Totally mind-numbing.
Two large new projects crossed the threshold two days before holiday break … freakout! Next year I’m leaving for break on December 1.
Very interesting LTO vs HDD discussion on AMIA-L right now. File sizes for a/v archiving are mindblowing. Hello LOCKSS?Can you do petabytes?
September 2009
26 posts
Hopefully Jeffrey Eugenides is working on something new, eh?
slightly sore throat. hopefully not the library plague.
Colloquium on digitally assisted text analysis at Northwestern 9/30/09: http://bit.ly/VGZrI
going mad doing copyright evaluations on books
It might not be natural to look forward to pho this much. And scheme how to keep mr claire from eating any of mine
I just bought Pork In Three Forms.
Need a tailor who can do leather. Is that a specialized skill or are they all learned in the ways?
“I hear you’re not happy that rats are nibbling on your kneecaps and the drums of doom are beating ever louder at your door?”
Passport renewal came through…definitely going to Portland & Vancouver!
I just love these kids with their floppy hair. It’s so casual!
What is the point of sending a security certificate to my iphone for review if I can’t make the fields big enough to see the values?