I had a phone interview today! Hopefully the head cold that’s been with me since this weekend didn’t make my voice too nasal. And another phone interview for a different job is coming up in a few weeks. The great thing about iPods is that you can make up a playlist for every occasion. In […]
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"I always think those WWJD? bracelets really ought to stand for ‘What would Jeeves do?’" (Courtesy of my friend R., who was in town for a visit this weekend. It’s finals week and I have a ton of stuff to finish, so blogging will be sparse for the next few days, but I just had […]
I have way too many end-of-term projects to finish in the next few weeks, so in an attempt to force myself to write my upcoming conference paper on time, I’m going to put some of the points in my head into a post. With any luck, it’ll help me over the getting-started hurdle. Those of […]
I recognize the design flaw implicit in keeping books in places where they’re likely to get wet, but I still desperately want a Library Bath. The slanted back just makes it all the more appealing. (But it looks like it needs to be longer, so one can wash properly after soaking until one’s toes are […]
For the past several weeks I’ve been using my Fridays (which, in my work schedule, are the start of the weekend) to work on my project for the special collections class I’m taking. It’s a faux exhibit (i.e. we have to turn in an introduction and set of labels for an imaginary exhibit we’d like […]
Googling the piece of music that’s stuck in your head will not unstick it. If anything, giving in to the impulse to Google for it will make the earworm twenty times worse. Damn you, Léo Delibes, you and your ubiquitous duet.* Also, please get out of my head now. OK? [clutches skull and whimpers] * […]
…but also of interest to those who like visualizations: Songs represented as charts, a photoset on Flickr. (Via little. yellow. different.) As a long-time Pet Shop Boys fan, I was much amused by this one.
Fascinating: The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of […]
I think I’ve mentioned my fondness for Librivox‘s audio books, both because they’re made in the open-source spirit and because they’re introducing me to a lot of unfamiliar books. Lately I’ve been branching out from their ghost story collections and P. G. Wodehouse novels into science fiction section. My latest train-listening download was Omnilingual, a […]
As seen at Making Light: Jason Shiga’s Bookhunter is very (very!) loosely based on a real book theft, but turned into an action movie. Special Agent Bay of the Library Police tracks down missing library books. Small-time perps just steal or deface books, but sometimes Bay faces more complicated cases, such as when a valuable […]