Tonight we’re having our first Dungeness crab of the season, courtesy of a seafood store, and also courtesy of a traffic jam two nights ago that had us crawling so slowly down El Camino Real we were able to see the small sign on the corner that said FRESH CRAB STEAMED/LIVE. It’s typical of our […]
I thought the holidays would be blogging catch-up time, but in all honesty, my 78-year-old mother has been ill and that has taken up all the slack in my life. She’s doing much better, thank you, but you can understand how a blog can drift away while I’m doing the delicate dance of work and […]
When Michael Gorman and I are in agreement, as we are today with his comments to Good Morning Silicon Valley. I could sigh that Gorman has now become the poster child for reactive statements, but on Wikipedia, I don’t think he’s wrong. Call me a fusty old Pleistocene fuddy-duddy with sleeve garters and a bustle–and […]
It’s beautiful here in Albuquerque, with the pale white light of December afternoon sun just starting to cast shadows across the city. The airport is so quiet on this Saturday afternoon that in typical big-city style I assumed I had missed my flight, since only 45 minutes before take-off there were less than ten people […]
His name sounds Middle Eastern, he speaks truth to power, some of his associates are scorned or suspect. My jaw dropped when I read Hoder’s post, but should I really be surprised to see the U.S. Border Patrol refusing reentrance to a Canadian who had been in New York City for one month and had […]
BlogHer links to the Open Source Radio episode. It’s a nice perk for me, yes, but it also put the word “librarian” on the BlogHer site, hoorah! They kindly added my feed to the BlogHer blogroll, which is well worth a visit. (I had thought I had submitted my URL when I attended BlogHer this […]
I’ve only skimmed the intro, but I like what I read: “The findings presented in this report do not surprise, they confirm. During the hundreds of Scan discussions and meetings held over the past 24 months, several recurring themes surfaced. ‘Users are not aware of the electronic resources libraries make freely available.’ Our survey findings […]
(From a show that happened today, 12-5-05.) The show began with an intro by Christopher Lydon; the lede was, seems like a boon, until we consider the perils of privatization… a tantalizing opening. Then came a Google rep to present what Google Book Search does: how carefully they digitize (which I do not doubt). Siva […]
A couple of weeks ago I received a wall calendar from my insurance company, USAA. I’ve been doing business with them since I was a second lieutenant in training at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois (“shoot me, don’t Chanute me”), and I like the calendars they send their clients. Decorating your office with […]
So there I was baking Christmas cookies, when I turned around to see that Emma had crawled into a kitchen cabinet. You can tell from her girth that she wasn’t there to smooth the shelf paper. Bookmark to: