Archive for July, 2009

Jul 31 2009

election party!

Published by phoebe under interwebs, teh, wik-eh-pedia

As a followup to my last post, and through popular demand (ok, maybe not, but I still want to do it) I’ll host an unofficial online elections party this weekend.
Sunday, 15:00 PST (22:00 UTC) — Skype (”brassratgirl”), IRC freenode#wikimedia, and/or gchat
You should come if you want to talk about the candidates’ answers — or if [...]

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Jul 29 2009

elections

Published by phoebe under interwebs, teh, wik-eh-pedia

The sixth annual Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections are being held this week and next — voting runs til August 10th.
If you have 600 edits or more on a Wikimedia project, 50 of them this year (on Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wiktionary, et al) you can and should vote. This elections is for three directly-elected community seats; [...]

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Jul 22 2009

WP:NYC

I am off tomorrow night to the New York City Wikiconference — a mid-size gathering of Wikimedians and friends from NYC and around the Eastern seaboard. Cary and I will be coming from the left coast (we have to represent!) — I’m not sure if anyone else is. This is the first regional Wikimedia conference [...]

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Jul 18 2009

orzo & tomato salad

Published by phoebe under food

I am feeling lazy (it’s 100 degrees out!) so I will repost a recipe that I first invented and wrote about almost exactly two years ago, and that I have made numerous times since. I just made it again this afternoon and it’s as delicious as I remember. If you have access to tons of [...]

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Jul 10 2009

Infinite Summer

Published by phoebe under Uncategorized

I’ve had company the last two weeks — my old friend Nicka, who I have known for more than half my life. We had all sorts of adventures, including winetasting up in Amador County, and then the next weekend a whirlwind trip up north (where it is cold and foggy and nothing like the 100F [...]

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Jul 09 2009

this spark of ours

Published by phoebe under life

The husband of a good friend of mine died yesterday. He was 33 and had been diagnosed with a particularly virulent cancer for the last 3 of those years; it surprised his doctors — but not his friends — that he lived as long as he did.
Scott was a gamer, a hacker, an engineer, [...]

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Jul 01 2009

science reference-fu

Published by phoebe under librariana

today I got from this incorrect citation:

Tschernaj. [no title supplied]. Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society. Date 1889. Issue: 53. Pages : 21 I.

to this hopefully correct citation:

Tschernaj. (1888). Zhurnal Russkogo fiziko-khimicheskogo obshchestva. Volume 20 I, p. 430.

It should be held by UC Berkeley.
This took the help of: OCLC Worldcat, CASSI, Melvyl, Google [...]

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