I'm watching "The Waters of Mars" (delightful, by the way) and all I can think is This is what happens when records management practices break down.

Verne Harris is coming to my faculty! I am only barely restraining myself from using capslock here guys and you'll please have to allow me this moment of sheer archival geekery, because only a handful of you might even know the man's name ( Read more... )

I was getting my paper done and then I came home! Why did I come home? I know better than that! Augh!

I'm going to wake up a little bit early on Sunday morning and hide chocolate eggs all around the shared living area of the suite.

I feel a strange mix of defiance and of entitlement every time I reshelve a book in the library.

Interesting trivia about the Library of Congress classification system (Reference Section Edition!)

• The system was created around 1902.
• All classification schemes are culturally charged; you can see that legacy in several places, including the prominent place given to religion.
• When running through the order of the countries, it starts with the big ( Read more... )

And just like that, I am back in school mode! How in god's name am I going to get all of this done! (Little pieces, I just have to break it down.)

( A tentative sort of plan and rambles! )

Thirty-one hours till my plane takes off and seven and a half pages (2600 words) are written. I'm hoping to get to ten or eleven before I'm done! If I can get this drafted over the course of the afternoon, I'll pop over to the faculty coffee house for a little while. How decadent! Then it'll be home for lots of revising! There's no real central ( Read more... )

371/1500

Edit 9pmish: 873/1500 and that is so a wrap for the day!

On the effects of the institutionalization of information as it related to the shaping of reality and power relations and how new technologies are undermining the institutions of the 20th century.

That was a mouthful. Back to it!

Second iSchool event went well! Commited some awkward social faux pas is failing to say a proper goodbye the group I was standing with (plans changed suddenly when I wasn't looking and that always, always throws me for a bender). This isn't ideal, but as I am wont to be lacking in all of the proper niceties anyway, maybe it's good warning? I was ( Read more... )