Spring quarter at Drexel — a.k.a. my very last quarter of library school — started this week. I’ve got ten more weeks to go, which seems like no time at all. But during those ten weeks, I’m going to be working, taking two reading-intensive courses and a job practicum, continuing my job search, going for […]
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One of the good things about this weekend’s conference was discovering common interests with fellow presenters. During one of those common-interest-finding conversations, I had an idea: “Wouldn’t it be neat,” I said, “if there were some kind of working group for people who work on both the history of the book and what’s happening with […]
The main conference day is finished, and my paper went well — various people told me afterwards that they’d liked it. I think it benefited from being on a really good panel on a day of interesting and lively talks. I’m impressed that the conference organizers made everything go like clockwork, with good food appearing […]
(Title of this post stolen shamelessly from a Frank O’Hara poem, in case you’re wondering. He got an MFA here in between sojourns in New York.) So here I am in Ann Arbor for day 1 of the conference I’m attending; the papers are all being delivered tomorrow and Sunday morning, so today was mostly […]
On Friday I’m off to Michigan to read my paper for the Questioning Authority conference. Allegedly, the hotel where I’m staying has wifi, so there will be blogging, and when I get around to sticking the paper in my portfolio, I’ll link to it for those of you who want to read it (all two […]
So I saw the Met’s Tristan und Isolde in HD on Saturday, and was relieved to see there were no casualties after the run of bad luck that’s plagued the production. Robert Dean Smith had stepped in as Tristan #4 after the first three had all been incapacitated or replaced. At the first intermission, Deborah Voigt joked a bit […]
I just hope nobody collapses or falls into the prompter’s box during tomorrow’s matinee of the Met’s Tristan und Isolde. I also hope that the run of bad luck that the production’s been having won’t make the live movie broadcast feed conk out in mid-performance while I’m watching from here in Philly. It’s enough to […]
RIP, Arthur C. Clarke. I know I’ve blogged about it before, but, dear Reader, if you haven’t read his story "The Nine Billion Names of God," you absolutely must. I’m in the process of working my way through Cory Doctorow‘s entire oeuvre, mostly in podcast form. A hat tip to the friend who first recommended […]
I saw my very first Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast this weekend! And my first Peter Grimes! And…well, not my first blogger meetup, but great fun all the same. Initially, I was skeptical about the whole idea of live opera on video broadcast — I was afraid it would be too much like watching opera on […]
Brain researcher thinks we’re hard-wired to be infovores. Apparently, the act of interpreting something that needs interpretation makes the brain produce happy-making neurotransmitters: coming across what Dr. Biederman calls new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it. […]