Network Society

Fri, 23 May 2003

For the last two weeks of the quarter, my LIS 550 class is reading The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society by Manuel Castells and discussing it. So I've been reading it bit by bit on the bus, and I just finished a chapter called Virtual Communities or Network Society? which makes [...]

Library technics

Fri, 23 May 2003

Meg, my supervisor at KCLS, likes to get out of the Service Center and into the branches every so often, to check the pulse of the system and see how the system is working, both for patrons and for library staff. So this Tuesday, instead of trekking out to Issaquah as usual, I hopped the [...]

Scary people

Fri, 23 May 2003

On Fridays I don't have class until the afternoon, so this morning I slept in. It was lovely and luxurious until 8:30, when the doorbell rang. I didn't hear anyone else moving in the house, so I dragged myself out of bed and toddled sleepily to the door. The guy there was looking for a [...]

Gender Test

Fri, 23 May 2003

According to the Sex and Gender Explorer Test: Your Raw Score is: 370, which indicates that overall you are Androgynous Your appearance is Feminine Your brain processes are mostly that of a Androgynous person. You appear to socialize in a androgynous manner. You believe you have normal doubts about your gender identity. You indicated your were born Female. ANALYSIS: Female to Male [...]