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tumblr
Attention! I have a Tumblr now. I still don't know what it's for, but I'm trying. For science.
Anyway, carry on.
Anyway, carry on.
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So over the weekend I pretty much became addicted to the webcomic Questionable Content. I've read through several years of the archive. Yeah, I have no life. Whatever. :)
At the iSchool happy hour on Friday night I discovered that one of the girls I had class with in the spring and who now works in my building is into a lot of the same music as I am, and just like me has been lamenting the fact that she has no one to go to concerts with. (Which is very sad, since tons of good indie bands come to D.C.) She's also into anime and manga, so we discussed the merits of Read or Die and old-school dubbed Sailor Moon, before somehow getting roped into explaining to the whole table the difference between cosplayers, LARPers, and furries. Good times.
Tomorrow's my day off, so I should use the extra time to run some errands, do some cleaning and laundry, and otherwise be productive, but let's face it, I'll probably just sit around being lazy! I do have a class starting in a couple weeks, which will sadly take away a sizable chunk of my leisure time, so I should enjoy laziness while it lasts.
At the iSchool happy hour on Friday night I discovered that one of the girls I had class with in the spring and who now works in my building is into a lot of the same music as I am, and just like me has been lamenting the fact that she has no one to go to concerts with. (Which is very sad, since tons of good indie bands come to D.C.) She's also into anime and manga, so we discussed the merits of Read or Die and old-school dubbed Sailor Moon, before somehow getting roped into explaining to the whole table the difference between cosplayers, LARPers, and furries. Good times.
Tomorrow's my day off, so I should use the extra time to run some errands, do some cleaning and laundry, and otherwise be productive, but let's face it, I'll probably just sit around being lazy! I do have a class starting in a couple weeks, which will sadly take away a sizable chunk of my leisure time, so I should enjoy laziness while it lasts.
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Tastes like chicken
Normally, I'm not a big online quiz person, but last night in Digital Preservation I stumbled upon this site Recipe Star, which is a new site with... recipes, duh. Their "What would you taste like to a cannibal?" quiz was too bizarre to pass up.
Mmmm... chicken. I also found out from another quiz that I could survive for 7 hours inside a freezer.
So, flist, what do you taste like? Maybe we can have an LJ block party pot luck!
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Mmmm... chicken. I also found out from another quiz that I could survive for 7 hours inside a freezer.
So, flist, what do you taste like? Maybe we can have an LJ block party pot luck!
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I feel like I've been so incredibly lazy today. Usually I spend most of my weekend cleaning and doing schoolwork, but I just don't have the motivation. Well, I did do some reading for two of my classes, but I don't feel like I've done enough.
About the only other useful thing I've done is change the security settings in Firefox and installing some handy add-ons. I have to train it now to allow cookies, scripts, and whatever else in the places that I want, which means right now I've got lots of windows popping up asking me what I want to do. I never realized just how many people are out there trying to either track you or throw ads in your face. But now they can't do either! Hah!
And now, some thoughts on last night's Battlestar Galactica, "Someone to Watch Over Me." ( Why are there only three episodes left? )
About the only other useful thing I've done is change the security settings in Firefox and installing some handy add-ons. I have to train it now to allow cookies, scripts, and whatever else in the places that I want, which means right now I've got lots of windows popping up asking me what I want to do. I never realized just how many people are out there trying to either track you or throw ads in your face. But now they can't do either! Hah!
And now, some thoughts on last night's Battlestar Galactica, "Someone to Watch Over Me." ( Why are there only three episodes left? )
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"The Web Time Forgot"
I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot. (I was busy falling asleep reading If on a winter's night a traveler.)
The New York Times published an article in yesterday's science section about Belgian librarian Paul Otlet, who envisioned a global network of electric telescopes to connect people all over the world with information. Today we call that the internet. But in 1934, Otlet was trying to classify everything ever published. With index cards. (Which reminds me of my cataloging class in 2007... but that was just a bit of a time warp.)
From the article by Alex Wright:
It all boils down to this: Librarians are smarter than you. We know the future.
The New York Times published an article in yesterday's science section about Belgian librarian Paul Otlet, who envisioned a global network of electric telescopes to connect people all over the world with information. Today we call that the internet. But in 1934, Otlet was trying to classify everything ever published. With index cards. (Which reminds me of my cataloging class in 2007... but that was just a bit of a time warp.)
From the article by Alex Wright:
Although Otlet’s proto-Web relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines, it nonetheless anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s Web. “This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.Wright also likens Otlet's project to the Semantic Web, in the sense that it's quite possibly overcomplicated and doomed.
It all boils down to this: Librarians are smarter than you. We know the future.