Unless I can find an internet connection at the top of the Skyhawk, there likely won't be many posts for the next week as Shea and I are off on a trip around Lake Erie. Our itinerary includes to Toledo to see some family friends of hers, Cedar Point in Sandusky for the world's largest […]
I didn't buy the Sam Baker CD at the Fred Picnic (having already blown more than I should have on other CD's and DVD's) but as I thought more about Baker's performance (and based on Beer Doug, a huge music fan in his own right, saying that it was the best CD he'd heard in […]
Hot Library Smut isn’t what it sounds like and is worth a look. (Safe For Work – unless you’re not allowed to surf the Internet at work at all of course) (via MetaFilter)
Like MySpace and Friendster and Facebook and Orkut and who knows what else, LinkedIn is another social networking site. This one appears to be more focussed on jobs and career-type networking than the more informal, non-profesional networking that the other sites do. It's got lots of great features but unfortunately, it's not great (or I'm […]
It's short notice but if you have a paper you're particularly proud of, it's worth submitting to this journal …
I'm posting this mainly as a head's up to future students who might have an opportunity to be involved in this conference as a volunteer or in some other way (if you're brave, why not submit a proposal to present at the conference?) John Buschman is the closing plenary speaker and that's almost enough to […]
The guy who runs Metafilter and AskMetafilter has added a few new features recently including the ability to see who have marked either your posts or comments as their favourites. I was kind of surprised to see that one question I asked requesting people describe their “perfect moments” (what someone else compared to Maslow's “peak […]
– I have a theory that every time you go to a music festival, one artist will become a revelation. That theory held true at the Fred Picnic last weekend. Sam Baker was an amazing discovery in his Saturday night closing set. Beyond his music, how's this for a backstory: while touring in Peru, he […]
I just accidently deleted a longish post with some more thoughts and highlights from the Fred Eaglesmith picnic so instead of trying to recreate it right now, I'll post this very heart-warming story instead. Can't remember where I came across it but had it bookmarked in my “Things For the Blog” folder for a time […]
As a follow-up to last week’s FFL about Book Mooch, here’s a link to Book Thing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore which offers all of the books it has in stock for free to local citizens.
