-
a morning ritual
This morning I wondered if the bank we pass on the way to work every day notices that we shout and shake our fists at them as we pass. If they do, I bet they're very confused.
( Read more... ) -
So helpful.
Pay databases are cool, but Nexis is on my last nerve this morning. I noticed today that one of its search display options is KWIC™. Wait, how can you trademark KWIC (KeyWord In Context)? That is, displaying lines that contain the actual keywords you searched for with those words highlighted. Luhn did that (as well as automatic indexing and ( Read more... ) -
I was fooled... heh :)
Nevermind, http://www.redriverclimbing.com/ is fine. According to the announcement, "You'd have to pry my Dell Poweredge 600SC out of my hands before I ever shut this site down." Glad to hear it. :) One of these days I need to pick up the new guidebook. And go to Muir Valley, of which parts are re-opening ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
In climbing news, Muir Valley has closed and Torrent Falls may close if climbers don't start behaving. Also, redriverclimbing.com has shut down. What have I missed ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
When I saw this article featured on sparkpeople.com, I remembered that it was April Fool's Day.
I hope that Yahoo! is pulling a similar joke by posting this news story, which says that it is illegal for doctors in India to tell their pregnant patients the gender of the child they are expecting, to prevent sex-determined abortions. Yikes ( Read more... ) -
agrippa
An article I recently read listed Stephen King as the first popular author to publish an e-book. A bit of searching revealed that they were probably talking about Riding the Bullet, a ghost story published electronically in 2000 by Simon and Schuster ( Read more... ) -
Most irregular.
I saw a car accident today; a hit and run, sort of. I was sitting at a light next to a guy in a white van, and two girls in a red car pulled up behind him. The van pulled forward about a foot, and the driver of the red car, thinking the light was green, gunned it and smacked into the back of him. The van was unharmed, but the red car was a bit ( Read more... ) -
movie meme
(snagged from caerbannog)
Think of your favorite underrated film, type the name into Google and do an image search. Find the best pic and then post it in your journal, but don't say what the name of the movie is! Once you post the picture, it's up to your friends to figure out what the movie is from the pic you posted!
( i love this one ) -
Kinetic!
- For the first time since week 1, I got an A on my kinetic routine last night! I've gotten lots of A's on individual games, but as soon as you start doing well, it ramps up the difficulty on that whole class of games. Last night's routine had a combat (medium), a cardio (hard), and a mind and body (hard), so I'm feeling pretty good about it. My ( Read more... )
-
it's been a while
but here's what I've been up to:- I am in semester two of library school, taking classes in collection development (I apparently use the "just in case" model for my own collection), internet technology (currently doing perl, syllabus also includes XML and Greenstone) and online resources (learning to use pay databases like DIALOG).
- I love my library ( Read more... )