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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Delta, would you please return my suitcase?

[update: suitcase arrived at motel at 10 p.m. Slept in my own jammies, Gottseidank, versus that Skymiles teeshirt Delta gave me.]
I am not going to go into blow-by-blow detail about how bad air travel is these days. We’ve all heard it.
But Delta, if you’re listening, would you please return my suitcase? You tell me you [...]

Links on the Grill

The truck farmers have arrived in Tallahassee — or, we could call them, purveyors of open-source agriculture.  This gentleman is at Lafayette and Magnolia most Fridays and Saturdays, and his sugar-sweet, flavorful melons made some scrumptidiliumptious sorbet this weekend.
But I have been absorbed in my own “fruitful” exercises…
ALA Techsource is once again actively publishing, [...]

Ah, MPOW, I hardly knew ye…

This Friday is my last day of work at my current job and I’m galloping through an assignment… well, it’s more like gallop, canter, stop and stare; gallop, canter, stop and stare.
Anyone following my job moves since we left California is likely getting whiplash at this point. She’s interim head of systems at an ARL! [...]

ALA Survey on Electronic Participation — Please Participate!

If you are an ALA member, please take this survey (problems with that URL? try this direct link), brought to you with tender loving care by the ALA Task Force on Electronic Meeting Participation, of which I are one. You’ll see this survey in the wild over the next several days.
Your participation in the [...]

How my cabin in the woods turned into a motel in Albuquerque…

One crucial bit of information I left out of my previous post is that I’m going to Santa Fe, New Mexico in mid-June to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday (or to shop and drink with my baby sister, depending on who you’re asking. She’s better at shopping, I at drinking).
I know New Mexico very well; [...]