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Baby

New Favorite Picture

Little Griffey in Profile

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I promise not to turn this into a baby blog, but I had to share.

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Twitter

Twitters from 2007-07-24

  • @akearns: I would go with WP, but I’m a longtime WP fan. #
  • @wanderingeyre: I’m all in for big game @ ALA. Been there, done that at other conferences… #
  • Knew joshuaneff was cool. Anyone who’s been to GenCon rocks…. #
  • Late, finally heading home. Annual report, Collection Development, and weeding project all due in the next week. #
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Twitter

Twitters from 2007-07-23

  • trying to work a Walt Crawford joke into my upcoming book review. Sadly, word count may prevent it from seeing print… #
  • up too early, headed in for ILS systems training…upgrading next week. *sigh* #
  • @wanderingeyre: Thanks! I try…. #
  • Check out what interrupted our picnic on Saturday: http://tinyurl.com/2ekk3v #
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Personal Sewanee

Look what interupted our picnic

We’re over at a friend’s house this past Saturday for his birthday party, and Betsy and I and a friend are just lounging in the yard eating. Beautiful day, with maybe, oh…30 people eating in various places around the yard.

Guy walks up to us and says “Don’t freak out, but there’s a big snake just behind you.” I don’t think anything of it, really…country boy, seen plenty of snakes…so we stand up to take a look.

Dead, view 1

That’s the “after” photo…it was at least a 4 foot timber rattler. Biggest one I’ve ever seen, hanging out right at the edge of the yard. Lots of kids, boys playing football…I shudder when I think about one of them tossing the ball just a little too far.

See if you can spot him in the “before” shot on flickr. Or how about just the head (again, an “after” shot).

One other shot, from a different angle:

Dead, view 2

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Twitter

Twitters from 2007-07-22

  • HP7 all day, with a party and dinner between chapters. ~400 pages in…will finish tonight. #
  • HP7 finished at midnight last night…that’s less than 7 hours for the book. Will listen to audio book this week…. #
  • So twits: when does the “no HP spoilers!” thing go away? I want to ask people questions!! #
  • @tinfoilraccoon: can’t seem to find the room…URL? #
  • Harry Potter will NOT be a New York Times bestseller: http://tinyurl.com/3dwhru #
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Books Media Personal

The end of Harry Potter

After discussing the book today with some friends on Meebo, I came up with the perfect turn-of-phrase for the collective sadness enveloping all of us who have spent 10 years following these characters. We all suffer from:

Post-Potter Depression

Thanks everybody, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

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Twitter

Twitters from 2007-07-20

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Library Issues

Open Library

Open Library logo I’m a bit late in pointing this out, but Open Library launched it’s public beta.

I feel that I can say with little hyperbole that this is the future of libraries.

After hearing about the project from Casey Bisson at ALA Annual, I was excited. But seeing this thing in the flesh is a whole other level….my hat goes off to Casey, Aaron Schwartz, Karen Coyle, and the rest of the OL team. This is a huge step for libraries…now, give us a nice, tidy, easy to use API and we’ll be happy. πŸ™‚

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Twitter

Twitters from 2007-07-19

  • it’s a girl! #
  • Sorry to mislead: Baby due in December—Ultrasound this morning confirmed sex. πŸ™‚ But still exciting!!!! #
  • So: Imagine BIGWIG was up to something, and needed a URL. What URL should we use? #
  • @cindi: why the lock suddenly? #
  • @stevencohen: thanks for the shout-out on librarystuff. πŸ™‚ #
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Baby Personal

It’s a girl!

We’ve put off an official blog announcement until now, but it just can’t wait any longer:

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It’s a girl!!!

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This is an older scan, but I haven’t had time to put up the newest ones, so…this will do as a placeholder. Betsy and I are expecting a little girl, due Dec. 19th. We are both so completely thrilled, and excited, and scared. But mostly thrilled and excited. πŸ™‚

Here’s the rules: No Pink. No Frilly dresses. No dating until she’s 25. Got it?