Re: It’s the Happiest Time of the Year

Rose leaves after a winter ice storm in Oklahoma City. Photo credit: glassgrrl_ok, Flickr
Yes, friends, it’s the haaaappiest season of all–when academic librarians go on vacation. For two whole weeks. During the darkest, wintery-est time of the year. Yes, the administration, they mocks us, but we don’t care. ‘Cause we’re on vacation!
I, your friendly [...]

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Re: Hooters

Part of my job as oral history collection manager is evaluating potential donations for inclusion in our collection. Which frequently means listening to unmarked or marginally labeled tapes of all kinds. So I’m sitting at my desk, going through a box of audiocassettes from the local wildlife refuge and I pop an unlabeled one into [...]

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Re: Black (and White) Bear Down

Okay, Modcloth.com claims that these are just “sleepy” panda salt & pepper shakers. I say that these pandas are clearly the victims of an acupuncture experiment gone horribly wrong or some form of alien evisceration. Notice how one panda is missing his entrails while the other has had his brains removed. A suitable gift for [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–You Ought to Be in Pictures

#36.) On-line photo editing software–The beauty of photo editing software is that it can turn a so-so photo into a work of art. I was really happy with Piknik which I found very intuitive and easy to use. Below is an example of one of my photos that I was able to alter in [...]

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Re: I’ve Got My Daemons

Well, one daemon to be precise. My colleague, Peg, pointed me in the direction of the Golden Compass movie site which has a quiz on it that you can take to see what sort of animal spirit (daemon) you would be matched with. Click on the “Meet Your Daemon” icon at the bottom of the [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Ain’t It Tweet

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
–Captain, Road Prison 36, “Cool Hand Luke”
#35.) Twitter and Jaiku–Maybe I’m revealing my age, but I just don’t get the point of text messaging. I’ve checked out the websites, taken a look at the sample feeds, even read Jaiku founder Jyri Engstrom’s talk on cell phones and [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Get Fit While You Sit

In this exciting episode, our valiant heroine learns about on-line fitness tools.
#34.) FitDay and Nutridiary are on-line versions of the food/exercise journals experts often recommend you keep if you are trying to lose weight and/or up your exercise level. Some people can make these work for them. I, on the other hand, keep [...]

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Re: Geat It On

John strove with the numbers, brow furrowed/Raged he against the Cain-curst company …..
You ever get the feeling that everyone was reading the same book you were? Not something obvious like Harry Potter #7, but some obscure text that you and many other people have been drawn to like moths to a bug-zapper? I had [...]

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Re: Santa Got Run Over by a Reindeer

This is one of those stories I couldn’t make up if I tried. First, however, a little background.
Outside of my city of Hobbiton lies the community of North Pole (its’ real name) and within said community stands the Santa Claus House. The Santa Claus House is a tourist trap–a large and impressive gift shop that [...]

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Re: Ten Things Most People Don’t Know About Me

My colleague, Peg, has tagged me with my first ever blog meme. So here it is, my list of the 10 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me:
1.) I have considered running for political office.
2.) I crash landed in a small plane once as a passenger. The plane developed engine trouble and we [...]

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