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Librarian stuff
I was down at NWIUG last week and got to sit in on a presentation that Kyle Banerjee, who works for the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, gave. He's been working with Terry Reese from OSU on a project to make the Summit OPAC interface more customizeable. In short, Kyle talked about how library systems are slowly moving in the direction of having different ( Read more... ) -
Ballet
Last night we took Eleanor to see the Tacoma Ballet in a show called Hallowed Dances. The company is trying to move away from the "story dances" that require a lot in the way of expensive sets and costumes, and they're experimenting with shorter themed dances. It was fabulous!
The highlight was their Danse Macabre piece, where the dancers wore ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes not being mainstream is a pain
I'm going to Portland tomorrow and am trying to find an audiobook to listen to on the drive down and back. This is severely hampered by the fact that I don't like most of the pop fiction/bestsellers that are available in audiobook format. Also complicating things is the fact that my car has a tape deck instead of a CD-player. In comparison with ( Read more... ) -
Mac help!
Jherek has a used PowerBook that he got from a friend. He recently renamed the user account on it and has subsequently been unable to access darn near everything on the machine. He says:
It seems that there's this "little bug" in the OS ( Read more... ) -
GRRRR
Some of you may know part of this story. About a year after we moved into our house, a jazz and blues club opened up the street (nothing was there before). Not really my kind of music, but as a musician it was nice to see a venue opening up for local artists. What was not nice was hearing every single note of the harmonica inside my house, at ( Read more... ) -
Why yes, I am a big freakin' geek
One of my projects at work is identifying the works of important modern playwrights that we don't own. For most American playwrights, this isn't too difficult-- either they're dead and a publisher has issued a collection of his/her complete works, or they've written few enough works that it's easy to find individual copies of each play. Sam ( Read more... ) -
Book recommendation
If you enjoy mythology, I recommend picking up the book The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente. Reminiscent of 1001 Arabian Nights, Orson Scott Card's Hart's Hope, and a bit of the Ramadan issue of Sandman, the book burrows down with stories inside stories inside stories until the boundaries of the interlocking tales slowly ( Read more... ) -
Nice weekend
Having left J to act as a single parent to a preschooler while I was in Japan for two weeks, I returned home and immediately started in on my SIFF viewing. What with this past weekend being Father's Day and all, I kind of figured J needed a break. So Eleanor and I spent the weekend being party girls ( Read more... )
