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My awesome Wikimedian friend Sage and his wife Faith just had a baby today! He liveblogged it, which is made of win. Welcome to the world, baby boy Brighton! And congratulations to the parents. So exciting!

ETA: As of May 2010, a year later, we still are uncertain if we’re actually going to close or not. Stay tuned, I guess. A few weeks ago, a bit before I left to go to Argentina, we learned officially (we’d known informally for a few months) that the library I work in — the [...]

I am in subtropical Northern Argentina in the winter, in Puerto Iguazu, watching a cat walk lightly across a red tile hotel roof, watching tourists by a swimming pool outlined with jasmine and palm trees, the palm trees adorned with small strangler figs. It’s cool in the late afternoon, after a rainy morning; my clothes [...]