Here are a small sample of the pictures I took while I was in Oakland, CA this October for the Oral History Association conference. The one above came out the best I think. I took all of these photos with one of those disposable cameras, then had them developed, and had a photo disk made [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Re: California Dreamin’
Posted in Oakland, Photography on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Re: When Fair Use is Outlawed ….
Posted in Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Rights Management, Larry Lessig on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…only outlaws will be able to use copyrighted materials.
That, with a lot of simplification, is Larry Lessig’s arguement in this videotaped presentation from the 2007 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in California. Larry is the founder of Creative Commons, a copyright reform site, so he has a bias, but his talk was a lot more [...]
Re: Housekeeping
Posted in Halloween, LOL Cats, Miscellania on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Day of the Dead Skull photo by Green Thumbs (Flickr). Skull lights up and sings “I Ain’t Got No Body”. Yeah, I know. Sick.
Too late for this year, but just in time to give you ideas about next year’s Halloween is this book by Tom Nardone. To find out what really scares the [...]
Re: Fall Back
Posted in Daylight Savings Time, Fun Stuff, Librarians, Library Life, Organizational Behavior, Time Warp on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Old Town Hall Clock in Prague. Taken by Simpologist (Flickr).
The fall time change has played havoc with the clocks at the University of Arnor.
Our clocks are set and run by a central timekeeping piece at Facilities Services that is supposed to keep all the clocks on campus showing the same time. Or, at least, that’s [...]
Re: Back in the saddle again!
Posted in Fun Stuff, Librarians, Rogue Rodents on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Electronic stud finder, batteries included, does not work on men–$5.00
–Part of a list of things for sale on a flyer on the library’s bulletin board in the main foyer
Ah, it’s good to be back! Back to snow! Back to sunshine unimpeded by persistent smog! Back to rogue rodents in the library!
No sooner have I divested [...]
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