We’re headed back to California! I have a job as library director at Holy Names University in Oakland, starting October 30. Ok, to put this news in context… A few months back Sandy and I had a series of family discussions, and we realized that we were in agreement on a change of strategy to […]
By popular request (well… one request, but how can I say no?) here is my recipe for a clone of Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale. I researched just about every THA recipe out there to come up with this. The decision to stay with Centennial all the way through appears correct, despite the recipes that sneak in […]
As mentioned in earlier posts, I was the opening reader at the September 12 Babylon Salon, an occasional reading event held at Cantina, a lovely bar in downtown San Francisco. The event organizers recorded the readings, and Timothy Crandle, USF crony and reading-organizer extraordinaire, sent me a sound file. So here is me reading the […]
Earlier, Ellie Dworak posted about healthcare, noting that for her, “This is a really hard one to have a conversation about without getting emotional.” She listed her concerns “as a token conservative librarian,” and I state my responses below. “It’s too expensive. Just because something is a nice idea doesn’t mean that we can afford […]
This isn’t exactly a recognized hobby, like raising miniature horses, but miniature homebrewing is something I’ve fallen into and at least for now — a few batches in — it makes a lot of sense for most batches I’m brewing. Miniature Homebrewing has at least three components I’ve identified so far: brewing small batches, using […]
Working for a vendor, it’s been hard for me to figure out how to personally respond to the recent Liblime brouhaha. What is a “personal” response in a world where our private/public lives are so blurred? But I feel this event personally, because it touches on so many things I have written and talked about […]
Have Pumpkin, Will Travel Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian So we had a lovely time in the Bay Area in September. The pumpkin and bicycles are not ours — I just spied this outside a brewery in Santa Cruz, and it spelled autumn in NorCal for me. (We didn’t go to that brewery, but we had […]
Most of my posts about the latest political goings-on have simply happened in my head, while I worked on some personal writing, taught myself more DocBook XML (really, every librarian should learn some XML schema; it’s quite pleasant, like tatting or needlepoint), etc. But the conversation about health care has so far ignored a highly […]
In response to my vision of Bristlecone — a preservation plan for literary journals — Mary Molinaro wrote, Her idea of a preservation plan for literary journals, named Bristlecone, has some positive aspects, but I think misses the mark on so many levels. [1] The basic goal of preserving a last copy of these literary […]