No maps for these territories

out of the clubs and into the libraries via some people and then jessamyn

Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful. I cooked, with much help. It was just the right size for a fangsiving dinner: four people, casual, saturday evening, coincidental that we were all there at the same time and yet so grand that we all were. We walked around C.’s crazy apartment complex and watched Harry Potter (2) afterwards. [...]

Outside: rainy, cold. Inside: pyjamas, tea, half-watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and half chatting on the internet/working on my webpage/working on the ‘pedia. I can’t think of a nicer way to recover from a long and crazy weekend, which guest-starred , , , and . It was a great deal of fun, though. Let’s [...]

Am in Vegas with the lovely . All is well. I am dazed by all the shiny lights; we seem to have spent most of the day wandering in and out of casinos. Tommorow is cooking, picking up from the airport, and touring C.’s library. My head hurts a little. I’m getting work-type emails and [...]

due to some sillyness, I lost nearly all of my non-lj blog links. what should I be reading? links about libraries, research in cs, sci-&-eng-libs, wikis, people I know, and dry hilarity are always appreciated. —- I am trying to focus on work. Focus, yo! I haven’t been getting very much sleep lately; my dreams [...]

The World Summit on the Information Society (part 2) was held in Tunis this week. This UN-run international gathering of thousands of activists, journalists, politicians, and people like the president of ICANN sought to address such issues as the digital divide, community information development, and who should govern the internet. This is big stuff. Like [...]

I just heard a PSA about sleep apnea on the radio. “Sleep apnea leads to increased risk of blah blah blah call this number today to learn more blah blah.” You know the type. But it led me to think: why are health warnings always couched in such scientific terms? “Obesity leads to increased risk [...]