..via email. In doing some basic bibliographic work for my upcoming Master’s Paper, I discoverd that Larry Lessig has a new book coming out in late March that is concerned with my topic. Deciding that I had little to lose, I dropped him an email outlining what I’m working on, and asking if it were possible to see any of the work before publication.
I just got an email back from him asking for my address so that he could send me a pre-press of it. 🙂 It’s geeky, but I’m thrilled!
Here is a brilliant analysis of the top 5 geek social fallacies. The author (Michael Suileabhain-Wilson) shows a certain amount of deep understanding of geek mental activities and cause-effect relations vis a vis social interactions. Very astute stuff.
So…who thinks they are a carrier of some of these characteristics? I am definitely a GSF3, and have been guilty of GSF1 at times.
I sent this out last semester in an email to the SILS community, but here it is for anyone who forgot. Starting in January, Zipcar will be available on campus.
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UNC faculty, staff, students (over 21 years old), and Departments can join Zipcar for only $20/year. Even better, we’ll give you $20 in driving credit for your first month of membership.
That’s a really bad version of me, via Mr. Picasso Head. Check it out…very, very cool use of flash. So smooth, it’s like butter.
Like a big stick of buttah.
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Is to tell me: What the hell is this? Hint: I recieved it as a white elephant gift for Christmas. Consider it a librarian challenge. First person to get the answer recieves the respect of reference librarians everywhere. Yes, I do know what it is. I just want to see how hard it is to find out with only a picture. <edit121603>Since Catherine asked: the object is a very hard plastic, and approximately 2 feet long. The two long side protrusions are maybe 4 1/2 inches, with the two small protrusions being slightly less than 1 inch.</edit121603> <edit121703>No to both Justin and Patrick…it is neither a thing for hanging or a handrail. This is fun! Anyone else wanna give it a try?</edit121703> |
But as all things, frought with difficulty.
From Slashdot, a story of one man’s attempt at getting Open Source CD’s into his public libraries in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the story is a great PDF of his story and problems that he had. A good read for librarians everywhere.
…that yes, I’m still alive. 🙂 Busy, busy, busy with the preparations for celebration of the upcoming holidays.
Things I’m looking forward to:
Seeing Return of the King on Wednesday
Opening all my kick-ass presents from Betsy
Hanging out with my family
Things I’m NOT looking forward to:
Driving…lots of driving
Not seeing everyone for weeks…those of you that will be around after xmas, leave a comment, ok? Just so I know who I can go out with while Betsy is in San Diego at the MLA
…on boingboing! (cool link, btw).
So, in response to IBM’s request for the source code that it is supposedly infringing upon (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can browse the Google news for it), SCO provided IBM with a PRINTOUT OF THE CODE totaling a million sheets of paper. A million. sheets. of. paper. What a great lawyer tactic! (from boingboing)
To put this in some context, a million sheets of paper is:
Over 4000 inches tall
Over 333 feet (twice the height of the Statue of Liberty) if stacked
Just a bit over 6 tons
374000 cubic inches
216.4 cubic feet
I feel sorry for all of you still stuck in the throws of finals….ah, who am I kidding? No I don’t…I’m too happy BEING DONE!
WOOOO-HOOOOOOO!
🙂