No maps for these territories

I am sitting in a room listening to lawyers who are bloggers talking about legal blogging; there’s perhaps a quarter of the audience with laptops and the sense of mirrors within mirrors is omnipresent. Everyone is very self-conscious. Should we do this? Does it take away from real scholarship? Are we being libelous? Can we [...]

Yarr! I’m flying to Boston on the red-eye tonight. Hopefully all will go well. I’ll be as connected as ever, so don’t hesitate to get in touch. Back Sunday; Monday, catching up on all the work I didn’t get done this week. Argh. Note how that link has been translated into Japanese and Hebrew. I [...]

Overheard today at Davis’ Picnic Day celebration: “Tractor [driving? maintainance?] is totally the best class at Davis. In the final, you race around the field against your TA, and if you beat, him it’s an automatic A.” Today was Picnic Day, and it was fabulous. So much fun. I have pictures which I may or [...]

My last entry, friends-locked, was about how a colleague of mine — not a direct coworker, but someone in my library system, who I just barely knew — died over the weekend. Her death was a shock to everyone, not least because she hasn’t even been working here a year; she started just a couple [...]

This was one of those beautiful sunny evenings, long delicious sunsets, perfect clear blue of a sky the way that June in Seattle is; and because of this it made me unbelievably homesick. It’s the wrong season for this kind of weather; there’s too much sky, everything is flat and yet closed in. What am [...]

“My governor can beat up your governor! (offer does not apply in Minnesota)” – bumper sticker on an old, rusty Chinook camper that is parked over by our food co-op. Now, this is an old sticker, but since I’d already left the state the first time by the time the Governator was elected, this kind [...]

Once again, I am working on reorganizing my personal data, websites, blogs… and working on plans to start a new, computer-science-librarianship only site. As far as I can tell, there’s not much out there about being a computer science librarian… very few people specialize in it; I seem to be one of the lucky ones. [...]