Archive for April, 2009
Congratulations, Damn it.
30 Apr 2009The winners of the Linden Prize were announced today. I’m very happy for the people at Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability. I know some of the hardworking and tremendously creative people in both of these groups–they richly deserve this award and need the cash infusion. In my heart was really hoping that the Alliance [...]
For the young pups…
In: General Whatnot
30 Apr 2009That didn’t believe me when I said Bowie and Bing Crosby sang together on the television back in 1976 or so. The conversation before the singing is obviously so well rehearsed and I adore it! Takes me right back to sitting on the living room floor in my pj’s with my face about 12 inches [...]
What I did at the ref desk today
In: General Whatnot
30 Apr 2009I was late to start off and had a headache. I then helped several students freak out about the papers they have due tomorrow. One of the students is doing a five-page paper on “love.”
I ask as straight-faced as possible, “What about love?”
“Well, I”m just going to write five pages about what love is.”
“History, [...]
Scribd–what it is and why I don’t care about it right now
In: Cool Tools
23 Apr 2009Ok, its a self-publishing archive. I get it. They call it “democratized publishing.” I get that. Even our President has a Scribd page with 100 friends. We can use it to embed documents into websites. Like that. Check!
Please do not say that this is the future of the book or I [...]
The Linden Quickstart Guide
In: Second Life
23 Apr 2009Yea, its pretty good: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/tnt/blog/2009/04/19/quicktip-enjoy-our-second-life-quickstart-guide
I don’t know what Scribd is though and I’m pissed that I have to find out. There’s some new tool every day and I’m getting sick of feeling utterly incompetent for not knowing about and using all of them in order to amaze the room at a conference.
Pet Peeve of the Week
In: Librarianship
23 Apr 2009I am an electronic resources librarian. I negotiate lots of contracts and talk to sales people a lot. Since this is renewal time for most libraries, including ours, I get a boatload of phone calls. I have many voice mail messages, many of which are ignored because I have no idea what the person [...]
Scary Girl
In: General Whatnot
22 Apr 2009Two words: Sucked in! My excellent colleague Jenn sent this to me today because she clearly has unspoken concerns about my being far too productive in my office. Scary Girl is a graphic novel/game/toys product from Toronto-based artist Nathan Jurevicius. The images/animations are beautiful, clever and creepycute. The game is fun to play and [...]
Fascinating Reference Fact of the Day
In: Librarianship
22 Apr 2009This is something I learned today from a student question: Did you know that Mexico has over 291 living languages? We used the Ethnologue (in paper, thank you very much) to find this answer. The online version is so much more readable than the paper and it looks to be free: [...]
Vanishing Point
In: Cool Tools
11 Apr 2009I completed the next lesson in PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs. This one was pretty easy because I skipped most of the camera raw stuff. My camera doesn’t put out this format so I’ll come back to it later. I learned a pretty cool tool called Vanishing [...]
Google thinks I’m on vacation
In: funny bits
9 Apr 2009Ich wohne nicht in Deutschland. Google, flippen Sie mich heraus aus!*
*Literal translation from Babelfish:
I do not live in Germany. Google, flippen you me out!
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