Spring 200516 May 2005 A bleeding heart liberal, that's what we are. Lilacs are in bloom, too.
Frazz is buying books for the school library again. When we're working, we sometimes feel the same way Billy Crystal does about people getting called on their cell phones. "Turn it off ... or simply shove them up your ass." We wonder whether signs like that would be more effective than the polite notices posted all over the library. Once again, where others see Jesus, we're seeing Barry Gibb. 10 May 2005 Our friend Allison, who recently badgered us about our abysmal posting behavior, also sent us a link to the Superman Is a Dick series of comic book covers. Speaking of dicks, we think ALA ought to give Laura Bush an award for telling the joke about Dubya jacking off a horse. You know you need to buy some t-shirts for summer conferences, and we have a new design in the librarism.com store: "If sharing is piracy ... Arrrrrr! (librarian = pirate)." This cartoon is apparently "a joke that only library cataloguers who are fans of Elfquest will get." (Completely ruined by the explanation in the comments, cuz now we can't even fantasize that it's a good joke to lcwafoE anymore.) Would you rather own this talking Jesus doll, or this one? We like the first one, because with different clothes (and, our spouse adds, chest hair) he could be Barry Gibb. 31 March 2005 Too much time has passed to do a recap of the Computers in Libraries conference and have it still mean anything. So we'll just say "Hey!" to everyone we hung out at the hotel bar and dined with. Oh, we do want to mention one of Mary Ellen Bates' slides from her presentation about evaluating search tools. On the subject of gathering first impressions, the slide read: "Go zen; just sit and stare at the front page." That inspired us to add a few new koans to the Zen Librarian area. Oh, we also want to let everyone know that we're still (though half-assedly) looking for the answer to one of the ref questions Dre started researching in the bar: How did the phrase "toss my salad" come to mean what it does? If we find a satisfactory answer, we'll let y'all know. (The person who asked didn't accept our theory that it has something to do with the rearrangement of hair follicles. Alfalfa sprouts, anyone?) BTW, we've just noticed that Dre mentions a nice LISCareers article on Zen and librarianship this week. A couple pics from DC ...
If the Constitution could be amended as easily as a license agreement, we'd really be up a creek. 14 March 2005 The Computers in Libraries conference overlaps with the DC Comedy Fest this week! We shall have to see which of the two will be more entertaining. Banned Books in the Year 2191. A list at McSweeney's. While you're there, check out the even funnier (non-lists) Goofus, Gallant, Rashamon and How to Talk to Your Kids about Almost Anything. We started writing a song called "Blog People" ("Blog
People got bad manners/Blog People got no editors ..."), but we
figure that, by the time we'd get around to recording it, no one would
care anymore. So we decided to
Ten Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career is an excellent piece, although we'd have to see some fairly rigorous data before buying the first sentence of Reason 5. (We're reasonably sure it'll be quoted as evidence that "bloggers are better informed than non-bloggers.") |
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