okay now there’s a super neato panel picker graphic (0)If you were to say you could write me a fictional story that included dog cloning, beauty queens, skipping bail, a mormon sex scandal, and criminals posing as Irish deaf mute actors, I would have said, “Pshaw!” But there is such a story. And it is true.
Woman riding a donkey fights off lion with machete
You don’t even need to read this article, because it will ruin the awesome mind picture you now have. Accept that this story cannot get any cooler.
I am a poor time estimator. I am an extremely visual learner. This is while Lego time tracking my work week looks awesome. It’s not because I want a reason to have legos on my desk, I swear.
The Netflix Suggestion Engine gave me some funny recommendations today. Why did it think I liked Beyonce and Cher, I wondered. Oh, because of stereotypes.
The Beyonce Experience: Live
Because you enjoyed:
Clearly these two films are very similar. Anyone who cares about the most racist miscarriage of justice in contemporary America must also love Bootylicious.
Because you enjoyed:Showgirls
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Oh, the shame. I like trashy films and Dolly Parton. Damn you, Netflix, I do not like Cher.
There are not many thesaurus themed t-shirts, but this one is great!
While many things the American Family Association does would probably offend me on many levels, now they seem to be messing with me personally. Via Sarah, they are replacing the word gay with homosexual in all AP stories. That’s all fine by me except when people have the name Gay. Hey there, I work hard to make those stories not get homosexual. Way to mess up my hard work, jerks. Ah I love that Tyson Homosexual, don’t you?
Take this as your official invitation to come visit the Uncensored Interview Blog, where I will also be blogging, generally about their awesome interview vids, the indie lifestyle, music, etc. My first post, about Kid Rock (oh, the high quality of my musical interests), is here, but you can generally follow my posts here. Will be sidebar linked as well for future reference. While you’re there, the videos are really cool. And they are looking for competitors in their corporate Guitar Hero challenge, so sign up if you think you can take them.
To become an expert means truly being able to answer questions you never thought would relate to your field at all. I salute Curtis!
Is anyone else riveted by this story?
Today I saw Tim Berners-Lee speak about linked data/ontologies/the semantic web. In addition to being the inventor of the WWW, he has really interesting ideas about women in engineering/computery things. Now I am no engineer, but in a room of a couple hundred people men, I saw maybe 10 women. Now, first, this is not news. But maybe it’s working with a lot of librarians which has lulled me into a female-dominated, computer-haxx0r haze. Seriously I cannot recall when I have been in a room with fewer women (relatively), and I went to a high school with a male to female 3:1 ratio. In fact I think this is certifiably the only time in my life where I have been the most feminine person in the room by a LONG SHOT (I was wearing a dress. With pink flowers on it.). And also the only woman under…40ish (that I saw). I am not uncomfortable in male-dominated situations. I am not uncomfortable being the youngest person in the room (though when that is taken to mean I am an idiot, it starts to grate). I am not uncomfortable at a tech conference. Yet, I was uncomfortable in that room. While I was not at the conference very long, not one person spoke to me. They did stare doubtfully at me though when TBL asked if people were familiar with the topic he was discussing, and I was the only person who raised my hand at my table.
So what I am saying, is even in this area, TBL knows what he is talking about.
I assume this is impossible, but does anyone know any way to get internet access (dsl at least) without a contract? I could supply the router and such, but I am hoping to work from home at my dad’s house and he doesn’t have a computer. I don’t want to start a yearlong contract for him, obviously. I am wondering if I could just move my plan over? But I think that probably won’t work. Anyone have any experience with this?
And he lives in a building of old people, so no one there has wireless I can steal. And while I CAN work from Panera, I also have to be on hour plus conference calls so that won’t really work.
I never see anyone famous, mainly because I do not pay attention. I do enjoy the weird tension when a famous person does walk down the street and people pretend to not know who they are. I did see someone famous today so here’s my list of sightings thus far:
This would seem to say I should only go to work and art museums.
New Yorker sightings I would love to have:
While looking for a news story about a cougar found roaming the streets of Chicago, I was suprised to find the high number of websites for “cougar hunting.” Apparently some people consider women “cougars” when they are only 34! That seems young to me, though another definition was “anyone more than 7 years your age.” Frightening. Go find out where urban cougars hang out in your city here.
I love drastic double meanings in language. Keeps me amused on the internet, and in business. Amen!
If you happen to be in Austin and of the library/info science/museum persuasion, please come to the hoedown:
Saturday, March 8, 2008
12:30 PM
Las Manitas
211 Congress Ave Austin, Texas 78701
Eat/drink with your fellow information professionals. Use the words gatekeepers and cherrypicking. Snicker about your out of touch colleagues. Ask for advice/help from others who’ve been there. Bitch about Michael Gorman. Mention how Otlet could have schooled all of
these SxSWers decades ago. Reminisce about the days of authority control as king. All with tasty food and drink.
An office where you can shout, “All the orphans are dead! I killed them! I am so excited! Look! Ten thousand, all gone!” and the response is merriment.
So I will be heading to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive 2008. I am doing a Librarian meetup again, so message me/comment if you’ll be there and want to meetup! Or if you just live in Austin and want to hang out.
It occurs to me that I discuss Ol’ Dirty Bastard for work purposes a lot more than most people.
okay who’s going to ALA? and, what’s good in PA? I should be there fri night-sundayish, but I am only registered for exhibits, so I am mainly there to get free books and hang out with you, dear reader. Comment/call/email if you’ll be there.
The band at the office xmas party ended their set with….”let’s get it on.”
really? did they think that was an appropriate choice for a work function? i hope they don’t play family reunions….
I think matryoshkas are the new “pirates.” They are everywhere. This is exciting to me because I love them. I have wanted some Yakov Smirnov ones for quite some time. These computer storage size ones though are my new favorites. Urban Outfitters is all over matryoshkas. They had some wall decals and this pillow. They also have a set of blank wood ones:
I have some of these someone was freecycling. I am completely excited about them, but what to do? I have 4 different styles of them, so I have a lot of choices.
I really like the plain wood look. But then I thought I could stain them in different wood colors. My original idea when I got them was to paint them with some of the vocabulary hierarchies from work. So like, Food and Drink>Beverages>Beer>Craft Beer.
The unification of crafting, taxonomies, and booze would be a beautiful thing indeed.
But I like these more modern matryoshkas, so any new ideas are appreciated.
I received the best question at my recent presentation.
Aaron: “Is that a Glock sticker on your laptop?”
Me: “Yes”
A: “Cool, Do you own a Glock?”
Me: “No, I live in NYC where it is impossible to own guns, and I prefer HKs.”
This Aaron fellow mysteriously disappeared, but it got me thinking we should institute Librarians with Guns at ALA a la Geeks with Guns at SXSWi.
Anyone going to Midwinter and interested?
I try to put as few words in my slides as possible, but my job IS words, so I am not amazing at it. However, my slides from my presentation today may not make sense without the audio, which should be available later. Here they are in pdf. The wireless here is AWFUL so this may be a touchy link. I will try to get something more stable ASAP.
You know those moments when you realize all the steps and mistakes and odd interests you’ve had in your life totally prepared you for this moment right here? That happened to me at work this morning when my boss screamed across the office for everyone to hear:
“JENNY, WHO IS JOHN HOLMES? IS HE REALLY A FAMOUS CELEBRITY? WHAT FOR?”
Alert! I will be in Northern California.
Oct. 29-Oct. 31 morning–Monterey, CA. I am speaking at Internet Librarian 2007. If you are going, drop me a line. At the moment, I am taking some shuttle from the San Jose airport to Monterey. If you know of a better way, let me know.
Oct 31-Nov 4-San Francisco. I probably will be telecommuting on the 1st, so technically working, but that’s up in the air at the moment.
If you live(d) in the area and know good cheap places for me to stay near transit, or awesome things to see, let me know. Also, a coffeehouse I can stay all day in and get wireless so I can telecommute would be an great suggestion.
Asked of me by a coworker:
“Man you’ll agree with anything today. Are you feeling okay? You’re not usually this agreeable!”
If anyone out there is sitting on some easy to install (or web based!), free (or cheap) request or bug tracking software with an easy GUI, I would LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE to know about it.
Well almost. All library related conferences for the next few years here. I am glad someone was OCD enough to do it.
professional im convo:
notme64795: why are we doing this?
jenny: I have no idea.
I am venturing my first Chinatown bus experience in about an hour to go to Washington DC. ALA is happening now, but I don’t think I will be going to anything conferencey. However if you happen to be in town, drop me an email, comment, or, more efficiently, call me. I will be at the Renaissance across from the conference center. I get to hit three as yet uncharted states on the way, which is very exciting if you are a map nerd.
FYI Hummus is now considered a suspicious liquid when going through security at the airport. I feel this is purely racial profiling.
