So we’re laying around last night, trying to decide what to have for dinner. I’m leaning towards the Quidnunc Cafe, which serves excellent sandwiches and calzones here on the mountain. Here’s a transcript of the exchange between Betsy and I:
Me: “Come on…you know you want a yummy calzone. You can put anything you want in it, and they bake it all golden brown…”
Betsy: “Like Paris Hilton?”
🙂 There’s a reason I love the girl. 🙂
An interesting event today online that I’m calling “instant commercialism.” Here’s the breakdown:
Of course…Jenna is probably not pledging her allegiance to either rock or the Dark One, but is more likely giving the “horns” from the University of Texas where she is a student. Judging from the fact that her mom and dad have both been caught on camera doing it, seems a family kinda thing.
In any case…in a roughly two hour period we went from “odd pic of first daughter” to “buy the t-shirt”. Behold the power of the Internet!
…I’m going to go so broke.
I just found CMH Records, a recording company that specializes in bluegrass cover albums. Covers of what, you may ask yourself…the answer turns out to be….well…freaking everything.
There’s the expected: String Cheese Incident, Phish
The sort of makes sense: Bruce Springsteen (Vol. 1 and 2), John Mayer, Counting Crows
The yes-we-are-hip: Modest Mouse, The White Stripes
The WTF were they smoking: Metallica, Guns-n-Roses
At the very least, I’ve got to get the Counting Crows album, and maybe one of the Springsteen’s for Betsy. I’m greatly tempted by the Metallica, though.
I want one of these as my secret escape pod. I’m sure that I could rig it up with some appropriate hover jets/rocket pods/antigravity units.
Short of that, I just want one as a cool little hideaway. Would be a great place to hide and write, or just as a treehouse to re-enact childhood pirate/ninja/spaceman fantasies.
Among the many, many reasons that I will ensure that a Mac Mini is purchased this year are:
This is just another cool way to view Google results, but wow…it’s an amazing piece of coding.
I had heard the term, but had never actually looked at the website or read any of the articles on “blended librarians.” Turns out, I am one!
An academic librarian who combines the traditional skill set of librarianship with the information technologist’s hardware/software skills, and the instructional or educational designer’s ability to apply technology appropriately in the teaching-learning process.
That’s pretty much the description that I use for my skillset whenever I’m interviewed. As a matter of fact, that described a lot of my classmates from SILS. I’m going to investigate what these guys are doing with the concept.
This one’s for you, Jerry.
This Hulk’s weblog. Hulk tell whole world about Hulk’s life. HULK’S BLOG BEST BLOG THERE IS!
Interesting result for Googling “Griffey”…I’m the 5th hit! In a universe populated by at least two much more famous Griffey’s, I think that’s pretty cool.
I mentioned my searching for my geneology, and that I had bought a Utilikilt while at Gencon SoCal, but I just found this really excellent radio documentary on the kilt and Scottish heritage in the US:
Listen and learn, laddies and lasses.
