Strangely enough — given that the last time I attended an MLA convention, I took a rather jaundiced view of the whole thing — I had a really good time at this year’s conference. Maybe it was that nobody asked me "Are you on the market?" Maybe it was the fact that I didn’t have […]
I would be blogging the MLA right now, except that this morning, my computer unexpectedly decided that its server certificate had expired three years ago, and the tech support people at my ISP told me it’s a problem to take up with the manufacturer’s tech support rather than with them. (I’m posting this from one […]
Several of us drove to Virginia to see my great-aunt, whom I don’t get to see nearly often enough because she’s in assisted living several states away. Even at 96, she still uses words like "obscurantist" in everyday conversation. She’s one of my role models, and I hope we’re still discussing current events when she’s […]
‘Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s, Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays ; The world’s whole sap is sunk ; The general balm th’ hydroptic earth hath […]
Because I have a million relatives still to get presents for, and holiday travel to prepare for as well, have some links: indexed is my new favorite picture-blog. I always knew Venn diagrams were more fun than people gave them credit for. OMG, the Handelmania podcast! I mean, just look at all those amazingly cool […]
The winter Knitty is up, and I have fallen madly in love with this binary code scarf pattern, which I’ve decided will be one of my next large projects. And yes, I have every intention of encoding an actual message into the scarf. I found a handy little Unicode-to-binary tool that can convert a short […]
Final group project for systems analysis class: Turned in on Monday. (And you know what? I really dig entity relationship diagrams.) Final exam for systems analysis class: Taken. Whew. A bit tougher than I thought, but not impossibly so. Final bibliography for information resources and services class: Uploaded to Blackboard today. My first term of […]
On a handmade sign taped to a washing machine at my laundromat yesterday: OUT OF ORDER(NO RING CYCLE) I think whoever it was meant "rinse cycle," but it made me giggle nonetheless. "No Ring des Nibelungen today, the washer’s broken…" [Update: Someone just surfed over here while Googling for "Wagner’s Rinse Cycle." I might’ve known […]
I stole this from Jane Dark. How could I possibly resist a poetry survey? 1. The first poem I remember reading/hearing/reacting to was… I don’t remember what poem it was, but I have a vague early memory of trying to rearrange the words in a nursery rhyme, and being perplexed when it didn’t sound as […]
Last night and Tuesday night were my last two nights of classes this term. I’d forgotten the end-of-term feeling: one part nostalgia, one part "yikes, I’ve still got to take an exam and hand in two final projects," one part "onward!". On Tuesday night we learned about project management and systems implementation in my systems […]