Archive for October, 2009
really, it has something to do with libraries, you just have to make it up for yourself
Like a most other 0th-generation Oregonians I’ve met, I’m interested in the local lore. I usually find it hard to identify with people scalping indians, trapping beaver and cutting down the biggest trees they can find, but the landscape is fascinating, and I haven’t yet grown tired of its starring role in the recent, desperate [...]
stupid (awesome) internet
I was going to write a whole post about this but it never happened so, here, I want to direct your attention to this lovely essay by Karen Joy Fowler at the Powell’s blog because she describes beautifully the feeling i was trying to explain here. Stupid (awesome) internet.
adventures with Aardvark
i signed up with the q/a service Aardvark a few months ago out of curiosity and some professional sense of “i should know about this”. my experiences with it have ranged from unremarkable to amusing to somewhat upsetting. I know a lot of librarians out there “slam the boards” or otherwise participate in non-library question [...]
geocities, you will not be forgotten
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the passing of Geocities. This coming Sunday, October 26th, Yahoo! is shutting down the site for good. I am not going to tell you I learned HTML with Geocities, or wax nostalgic on how awesome it was that they let anyone have a website for free, [...]
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Command-F by Rachel Bridgewater, Anne-Marie Deitering, Caleb Tucker-Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 2009 ⌘f.
