And, as Bets pointed out, 10 hours in a car = no fun. Next year, with real jobs under both our belts, hopefully we fly.
Great time was had…much laughter. More food, though. I won’t enumerate either, but it was nearing grotesque and all of it amazingly delicious. My mom’s mashed potatoes really are that good, but nothing comes close to her peanut butter fudge (which comes to us in just a few weeks via Xmas). Mmmmmmm the taste of the holidays.
…and we start the endless drive back to Chapel Hill. Travelling on the Wed before and the Sunday after Thanksgiving proves that we’re just gluttons for punishment. But I’ll be glad to be home, if for no other reason than to dive back into work.
Four more things due this semester. Four…the countdown begins.
Hope that everyone traveling got there safe, and everyone staying home is warm and full of foul.
Amazon buys rights to use British Library’s Bibliographic info
From the article:
“The deal gives Amazon the right to use the British Library’s bibliographic catalogue, which contains 2.55 million books. Crucially it includes 1.7 million produced before the introduction in 1970 of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), a 10-character code that uniquely identifies any modern book.
Amazon will open a new online market where buyers and sellers can strike deals for some of the world’s most expensive literary creations. ”
Story originally from BoingBoing.
Not sure if any Ibiblio-philes read this thing…but even if you’re not directly affiliated, what do you think of this:
Music, UNC, and the First Year Student
It’s a portal designed for INLS180 concerning how to instruct first year students here at UNC what you can and can’t do on the network, and more importantly where to go if you want music. Plus, I threw in a forum, where hopefully students can discuss where to get music legally and the problems with current copyright law.
So…the question is: is it good enough to propose to Ibiblio for inclusion into their collection? Would it be a good thing to promote to the students here at UNC? Is it needed? What say you all?
Evidently Maytag thinks someone does. The Skybox Personal Beverage Vendor is evidently available for pre-order at Amazon. For just $499, you can have the satisfaction of….pushing a button to get a drink instead of opening the refrigerator door.
I’m speechless with the concept.
But I would love to have a home soda fountain.
Should have known…which Buffy character are you?
You are
"You should never be cowed by authority. Except, of course, in this instance, where I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong."
I remember when I would write a webpage, and just getting it up and working was enough. My first webpage, which has been lost to the electro-ether, was written in a vi session on a dumb terminal in late 1992 or early 1993. It was post-hypertext, but pre-Mosaic.
After my initial forays into the WWW, I was even guilty of using frames upon occasion, and tables and I were practically on a first name basis.
Now, nothing less than W3C Validated XHTML with CSS 2.0 will do. I simply can’t rest until I’ve eliminated every last stray orphan tag, and design elements in the html? Anathema to me.
<div class=”heston” id=”voice”>
Damn you SILS. Damn you all to hell!
</div>
Maybe it’s hell month. I’m not really sure anymore…all I know is that at one point last night, if you looked at my taskbar, you’d have seen:
A word document: Master’s Paper Question for Dr. Losee, due tomorrow
A dreamweaver window: a web portal for INLS180, due Monday
Opera, with 3 or 4 tabs open in various databases and/or journals
Acrobat, with two articles open for a presentation in INLS180 due Wed
and, of course, iTunes, playing my Study Mix (find me on the UNC system sometime to see what that is)
This doesn’t count the 10-15 page paper I’ve got to work on for Censorship, OR the final paper for INLS201.
Don’t expect to see me until January. Until then, I’ll be the one with the laptop and the headphones at Strong’s. đŸ˜›