Michelle is reading “Microserfs” and took up the meme in that book of defining herself by her dream Jeopardy categories. Cool idea – here's mine:The BeatlesUseless Pop Culture Trivia21st Century American PoliticsNonfictionPotent PotablesOpera (because there's always that one category where you go, “ah, crap”…even when picking for yourself, I guess!) Here's a good article on […]
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Posted 26 May 2007
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(Thanks to Kerry M. for the timely tip that allows me to do a post relevant to both babies and libraries!)
Three posts in a row? Wow – I must be catching up on my e-mail backlog a bit! (Don't worry, the baby is right here, sleeping on my chest helping me type the entries. ) A friend passed this along. I know we're going to get all kinds of tips and advice in the coming […]
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Posted 24 May 2007
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With the CLA conference coming up (already on? What day is it again???), the New Librarians Interest Group is doing a survey of students and recent grads to explore why (or why not) they attend the annual conference. I think this one is well-worth filling out as this is a pretty important topic and depending […]
The grandparents bumped into somebody in the elevator at the hospital this weekend who mentioned that Pace also means “peace and harmony” in Italian (if you follow this link, click on the volume icon to hear it pronounced) as well as Middle English. We didn't know that but that's cool too. As with the nickname […]
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Posted 24 May 2007
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(Man, it's going to be hard to get away from calling him Oscar! Also, thanks to everyone for the e-mails, blog comments, Facebook posts and even the occasional phone call! It's going to take me a long time to catch up on the backlog (and I might never) but we do appreciate all of the […]
Just whipped home to pick up a few things, fill up the car, charge the cell phone (we have Shea's mom's since that's one piece of techno-geekery that hasn't engulfed me yet) and so on. It's only been a couple days but I've been trying to come up with an analogy for what parenthood is […]
My dad was testing out the baby's name at lunch today and inadvertently came up with a nice nickname for the new guy (although it's still tough for all of us to stop calling him “Oscar”.) I'd being using “Pacer” as the somewhat obvious derivative “Pacey” doesn't do it for me. But dad was playing […]
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Posted 20 May 2007
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…and his name is “Pace Owen Hammond” (Pace being the Middle English word for “Peace” and Owen just being a name we liked.) Pace was born on May 19, 2007 at 12:33am at the Regina General Hospital. He weighed 6lbs 6ozs and was 18 1/2 inches long. The Apgar tests of his reflexes, awareness, etc. […]
LibrarianActivist has highlighted a couple sites in the past that offer free e-book downloads but this page has a comprehensive list of all the options online for getting free e-books and tree-books. (I love that the title of the post where I saw it on MetaFilter is “The Best Place To Get Free Books” and […]
