As Cool As She Is

Sat, 10 May 2003

Last week Jeff took me to a concert, so this week I took him to see Dar Williams. Obviously it was a great concert, since Dar herself is awesome. (The Ben Taylor Band opened for her and were pretty good too, I thought.) I didn't know most of the songs she performed, since I'd only [...]

Librarians are cool

Thu, 8 May 2003

Coming eventually to a television near you: The Librarian, a new action movie planned by TNT. Librarian centers on a cache of mythical objects secreted beneath the New York Public Library, including the Golden Fleece and the Ark of the Covenant. The title character must guard them against the forces of evil. Too bad it's [...]

Which layer of Dante’s hell do you belong in?

Mon, 5 May 2003

First Level of Hell - Limbo Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout [...]

That’s just sick.

Mon, 5 May 2003

Heard on NPR this morning: The Bush administration changes the way it calculates the value of a human life, proposing a reduction in the value of a senior citizen's life to 63 percent or less of the $6.1-million value per individual it uses when weighing the costs and the benefits of environmental regulations. But environmental [...]

Only Happy When It Rains

Sun, 4 May 2003

I’ve been in Seattle, the land of rain, for eight months now, and we’re just now having the first real thunderstorm. A couple of minutes ago there was a huge crash of thunder which alerted me to the fact that rain was pouring down outside. If Maggie were here, I would grab her and run [...]

So this is reference

Thu, 1 May 2003

Today I spent about 4 hours at the Issaquah branch of KCLS shadowing the reference librarians there for an assignment. The class is on reference services, so we're supposed to shadow someone providing an information service, in order to see how it's done in the field. My supervisor in ITS was nice enough to introduce [...]

Nothing like a fertility ritual to start the morning off right

Thu, 1 May 2003

Tuesday afternoon my supervisor, Meg, told me that she'd be in earlier than usual on Thursday because it was May Day, and there was going to be morris dancing at dawn at Gas Works Park. I was interested in going and mentioned it to Jeff yesterday. He didn't know what morris dancing was, and I [...]