this is news!
so i have a new job. :D starting monday. :D as an admin for (i think) comp sci folks. nerds! :D at the same u where i already am. :D i don't know who exactly i'm going to be supporting, but i'll find out. mostly i won't be unemployed and i won't have to leave the u. i'll basically be across the street from the office where i am now, which means i can meet my fabulous fellow admins for lunch. :D
(two of those fabulous fellow admins are working from home tomorrow, so i got to hug them goodbye today. they're all happy for me that a. i got another job! and b. i'll still be at the u.)
i was supposed to have an interview at a financial services firm this afternoon, but then i got the comp sci offer so i canceled. which is fine. i mean, i don't really want to work in finance.
in other work news, the retirement party on tuesday was a smashing success. a lot of people came to wish the retiring librarian goodbye and eat pie. (his only food requirement was pie, so we got pie. good pie.) (also crudites and dip and turkey and veg pinwheels and spinach and artichoke flatbread and muffaletta sliders because mardi gras, and chocolate covered strawberries and macaroons for the gluten intolerant, because being gluten free is no reason to not have dessert.) one of the women on the party planning committee got little chocolate globes, and we had globe balloons and paper goods with maps on them - the librarian worked a lot with maps and liked to travel - and someone made him a paper hat out of a big map and it was just really fun. and we had beer and wine! and then the party planning committee brought the leftovers back to the office, where we donated them to a d&d game that was just getting started. (one of the lovely folks in hr runs it.)
elspeth beard, first british woman to travel around the world on a motorcycle (she started out in 1982). that's pretty badass.
stop motion animation with wool and puppets.
there's a museum in italy that's full of 19th century fake fruit.
a year ago, when the spacex falcon 9 took off for the moon, a recipe for queso went with it. you know, in case aliens found the moon and had a hankering for some cheesy goodness.
and while we're on the subject of celestial bodies, the earth may or may not have acquired a new tiny moon.
fun with machine learning - by which i mean, computers can be taught to recognize, say, trees on japanese scrolls. (click "launch experiment" and, if you're me, giggle at the word balloons saying "tree!")
smithsonian releases 2.8 million images into the public domain - that's a lot of open access. go forth and mix.
(two of those fabulous fellow admins are working from home tomorrow, so i got to hug them goodbye today. they're all happy for me that a. i got another job! and b. i'll still be at the u.)
i was supposed to have an interview at a financial services firm this afternoon, but then i got the comp sci offer so i canceled. which is fine. i mean, i don't really want to work in finance.
in other work news, the retirement party on tuesday was a smashing success. a lot of people came to wish the retiring librarian goodbye and eat pie. (his only food requirement was pie, so we got pie. good pie.) (also crudites and dip and turkey and veg pinwheels and spinach and artichoke flatbread and muffaletta sliders because mardi gras, and chocolate covered strawberries and macaroons for the gluten intolerant, because being gluten free is no reason to not have dessert.) one of the women on the party planning committee got little chocolate globes, and we had globe balloons and paper goods with maps on them - the librarian worked a lot with maps and liked to travel - and someone made him a paper hat out of a big map and it was just really fun. and we had beer and wine! and then the party planning committee brought the leftovers back to the office, where we donated them to a d&d game that was just getting started. (one of the lovely folks in hr runs it.)
elspeth beard, first british woman to travel around the world on a motorcycle (she started out in 1982). that's pretty badass.
stop motion animation with wool and puppets.
there's a museum in italy that's full of 19th century fake fruit.
a year ago, when the spacex falcon 9 took off for the moon, a recipe for queso went with it. you know, in case aliens found the moon and had a hankering for some cheesy goodness.
and while we're on the subject of celestial bodies, the earth may or may not have acquired a new tiny moon.
fun with machine learning - by which i mean, computers can be taught to recognize, say, trees on japanese scrolls. (click "launch experiment" and, if you're me, giggle at the word balloons saying "tree!")
smithsonian releases 2.8 million images into the public domain - that's a lot of open access. go forth and mix.