1. Send out at least one essay every day; 2. Work out at the Y; 3. Move this blog to WordPress; 4. Figure out the next fifteen years. I am toying between one very interesting possibility versus the idea that if I can migrate to a decent self-payer health benefit plan such as I had […]
About a year ago I attended “Life after MFA,” an all-day seminar held by my MFA program. I found these notes while transcribing my old class notes (a small, useful project I’ve been busy with since last fall), and they make a nice follow-up to my earlier post, Being Able to Write. General Advice The […]
The Sophie networked book project now has a blog! I played with Sophie’s release 5 last weekend, and also walked through a very handy tutorial (also available on the blog). The tutorial cleared up a lot for me; an hour later, I had a finished book, complete with text, image, movie, and other interesting functions. […]
I admit I just sat here and listened to this podcast of me by John Lindner of the Baltimore Sun, and my only defense is that the questions were excellent and the editing equally fine. It was fun to be able to talk about library use, intellectual freedom, children’s services, the Open Content Alliance, the […]
I’m keynoting at NASIG in late May, and I’m trying to suss out this agreement. I had anticipated that, per usual, I would put my presentation online, and possibly stuff it into our library’s IR. It sounds as if I would have to wait for it to appear in Serials Librarian to do that. Do […]
For a week I’ve been trying to swim to the surface to share this with you. The whole article is wonderful, but one section tugged at my soul: “Like sentences, shell beans are a great deal more trouble to produce than anyone who isn’t producing them knows. You have to shell the beans, slipping open […]
I had one of the best IM’s of my life today (or was it yesterday?) when someone from Planet IT IM’d me to ask if I would bring a pie to work. This, on top of the worst work day I’ve had at MPOW. Do not ask. It has been horrendous beyond horrendous. I have […]
I am really pathetically behind the curve on two serious issues. I’m going to file a tax extension, which really isn’t too bad, except I will be pulling together the details this coming weekend… the latest I’ve been. I’m also finishing five evaluations, which sounds simple, except this is academia, remember? Which means each evaluation […]
For our two consecutive open houses this afternoon, I have two chocolate pecan pies in the oven, tickling my nose with the seductive fragrance of hot butter melding with sugar, eggs, chocolate, pecans, and a hearty dose of Trader Joe’s vanilla (hand-carried from San Francisco last December). If I had any thought of wearing an […]
Second look: editing the networked book Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I have been impatiently waiting for this moment for what seems like decades. The Institute for the Future of the Book just released a very early version of Sophie, its software for publishing networked books. I immediately downloaded Sophie, then took some text from an […]