Things I would be blogging about

By on January 18th, 2007

… if it weren’t late, and I hadn’t just gotten home from class, and I didn’t have to get up early tomorrow morning:

  • The first two weeks of the winter term, and why my classes are shaping up to be really good
  • Pan’s Labyrinth, which I finally saw and highly recommend
  • An idea I had recently about compiling a kind of dossier on the connections between fiber crafts (knitting, weaving) and information technology, inspired by James Essinger’s book Jacquard’s Web
  • The greatness of Zotero
  • My utter joy at learning that yes, in fact, people in the LIS fields do sometimes write historical studies of information behavior in earlier centuries (an interest of mine that I thought was kind of weird and anomalous, but not entirely, so, whoo!)
  • Operas I’m thinking of seeing in the next few months

Things I will actually blog about, owing to tiredness:

"No one’s preventing gays from using libraries—they’re fully welcome
to walk into them, browse all they want, and sit down and flip through
any book they choose, even in the reference section," said Sen. Jim
Bunning (R–KY), one of several conservative legislators who has vowed
to draft a constitutional amendment that would define library
book-lending as a contract between a library and a heterosexual reader.
"But to issue them the same library cards as a regular American citizen
would demean what our nation’s library cards stand for."

"Is that the message we want to send our young readers?" Bunning added.

  • It finally snowed! Just enough to dust the trees, not enough to stick, but there’s hope for real winter yet.
  • I wanted to do the iPod Oracle Meme (via). The basic idea is: set your MP3 player to shuffle, then ask a series of questions, treating each song title as an answer. But the thing about having classical music on one’s iPod is that the answers don’t always work; when asked "What should I do with my life?", my digital oracle replied with the Adagio from Brahms’ Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor. It also told me that the world sees me as the second of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Inspiring, but not exactly revelatory. (Though I was tickled by the fact that the answer to "How will I be remembered?" was "Baby’s on Fire.")
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