tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52867072011-07-28T18:37:44.060-04:00The Blog of an Open Source Librarian, in which there is no shushing.Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.comBlogger6711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1144636447469284402006-04-09T22:32:00.000-04:002006-04-09T22:34:07.480-04:00

I'm back on Wordpress, with a bright and shiny new version of the Invisible Library, just in time for my third anniversary. Come on Over!

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Cat pictures and even some thoughtful content are on the way-- I've been getting over a cold and busy at work, as if that's an excuse.Meanwhile, I've been geeking out over the new Doctor Who series, which is now my number two favorite show on TV, after Battlestar Galactica. I don't think it's at all too early to declare a new golden age of TV sci-fi at hand. That both these shows are

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Not satisfied to let Kansas or South Dakota hog all the crazy lime light, Georgia may use the Bible as a textbook:In the late 1700s, Congress thought enough of the Bible as a textbook that it printed 40,000 copies. But the bold effort here in Georgia to use the Bible in today's secular curricula may be about presenting it as a moral code rather than a foundation to better understand the biblical

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1143428440477932392006-03-26T21:59:00.000-05:002006-03-26T22:00:40.496-05:00

Jane Smiley has some words of wisdom for the recent GOP deserters who just now, this very minute figured out Bush is full of shit.You really, really need to read the whole thing. This is said often on blogs and then hardly anyone bothers to follow the link and really read the piece in question but this time, seriously. Go read it.Then you’ll understand why this part needs to be tattooed on the

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I've talked about it for months. Written vague posts abot how it's almost done and the process by which I wrote it. Well, it's now really done and available.The book I wrote for my wife as a birthday/Christmas/Valentine's day/Birthday-again present is now available online for download (as a PDF).Have a read and let me know what you think.

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My Archivist buddy, Jenny sent me this from the Archivist's Daybook:March 25 Today is celebrated as New Year's Day in the Kingdom of Gondor, for it is the anniversary of Sauron's fall. Despite his power as a wizard, Gandalf needed to perform archival research to confirm his suspicions about the true nature of the Ring, thus setting in motion the events that led to the end of the Third Age.

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Via PZ Myers, a new study that shows atheists are even more feared and hated than Homosexuals and Muslims:Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public. "Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring

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Elvira and I are off to Washington DC for Spring Break, so the Library will be taking a little break for a week. The rest of the liberal Coalition can fill you in on whatever I miss, so check the links on the sidebar and try not to work too hard.

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Isaac Hayes Quits South Park:Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion."There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said."Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and

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Five Vermont towns vote to impeach Bush.Now if we can only make that fifty states (or I guess, 33 for 2/3 majority).Via Kevin Andrew.

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I haven't ranted about the ID crowd in a while, mostly because PZ Myers pretty much has that area covered and in a way that is deeper and more informed than I ever could be. But I was just reading John Roger's own little rant and decided I just have to put in my two cents.This anti-ID rant braught to you by the makers of Bibles and people with vapid little minds who think, gosh and golly gee

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When ABC first aired A Fistful of Dollars in the 1970s, they added a prologue, shot with a Clint Eastwood lookalike as The Man With no Name and Harry Dean Stanton as the Warden. The Man with No Name is pardoned and released, on the condition that he cleans up the small town of San Miguel. Executives at ABC thought that an American Audience wouldn't accept a hero whose only motivation was greed.*A

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Elvira and I saw Brokeback Mountain last night and two things stand out:1) It is worthy of not only the numerous Oscars for which it I nominated but also the profound hype surrounding it. And2) The Hype surrounding it is skewed by what I can only describe as a Media befuddled by ts own reductionist tendencies.This last point, I realize, needs some elaboration.Critics would have you believe that

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Middle East Times:PARIS -- The recent violence surrounding the publication in the West of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed illustrate the danger of Islamic "totalitarianism", Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers have said in a statement. Rushdie, French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen were among those putting their names to the statement,

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So, boingboing.net has been blocked by the sole, government owned ISP in the United Arab Emerites for, disseminating information that is "inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates."I'd like some Neocon who supports the President's decision to hand our physical ports over to the UAE to explain this to me, because any country that bans Boing

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A friend at the Library of Congress sent my this e-mail:Billington, the Librarian of Congress, is considering a deal in which Disney would manage the reading rooms in the Jefferson Building. The idea is to install interactive exhibits in an attempt to lure "visitors" - not researchers by any means. Some of you might remember Disney's attempt to build a "historical" theme park/real estate

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George Washington was an honored veteran of two wars. Jefferson spoke three languages and wrote fluently in all of them.* Grant, it was said, could write in Greek with one hand while simultaneously writing in Latin with the other. President Bush, well, he gets his science from a science fiction author, and not even a good one:In his new book about Mr. Bush, "Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and

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I don't trust Dick Cheney, just on principal. I'm saying this up front so that there's no mistake: I'm biased. Still, this whole story about Dick Cheney accidentally shooting Whittington while hunting caged Quail* smells like three day old fish. Now, according to Digby, alcohol may have been involved.There's a hole in this thing so big you could double park a pair of Hummers and still have enough

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UPI:WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush said Thursday an al-Qaida's plot to attack Los Angeles was thwarted in 2002 by multinational cooperation. Bush, speaking at a National Guard Association event in Washington, said al-Qaida had planned to use Asian operatives who would hijack a commercial airliner and crash it into the then-named Library Towers in Los Angeles. The attackers, he

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So, the Saudis are boycotting Danish food, and all because of a tasteless cartoon. I don't know what's worse, the fact that the Saudis are so thinned skinned, the Danes that desperate for attention or that I've inadvertently been boycotting Danish food for years and didn't even know it. (Seriously, name me some Danish food. besides danish, which is French, I think... Do They make those little

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Rupert likes to gnaw on socks, rolled up in a ball. He's partial to fingertips and wrists, too. Thighs. Toes. Chair legs. Lint. feathers (boy howdy, does he like to chew on feathers!)He and Lucy are getting along much better now. She's still not into the social grooming thing, but that's only a matter of time; they occasionally take naps together, but only when no one is looking.

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Is awsome, sometimes. Today, I got to look at original animation cells from the Secret of NIMH and another Don Bluth film that was never finished, called the Blue Whale.Being a Librarian rocks.

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My wife's friend Lynne, who works at the Library of Congress sent us a link to this blog by homeless paranoid, Peter Bis. Now, I'm no psychiatrist but I'm pretty sure this guy is a low grade paranoid schizophrenic, judging form the rambling essays, the primary subject of which is him, Peter Bis and what the CIA/Vatican/Mafia has done/is doing to him.It's a fascinating glimpse inside a dented mind

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I'm an addict. I admit it. Six weeks without blogging and I'm itching to snark about nothing in particular, post pictures of my cats (forthcoming) and generally waste time on the internet. But, what else am I going to do?So, I'm officially back but things are a little different this time. For one, I'm back on blogspot. Administrating the Wordpress blog was way too much like work. I liked the look

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I asked Elvira what she wanted for Christmas last year and she told me, "A gothic fairy tale, with pictures." Dutifully, I started writing what I intended to be a ten page short story with a couple doodles. Something about an immortal king and a servant girl who was infinitely put upon by his idiot descendents. Then Grad School got in the way and with one thing and another, it became a birthday

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There have been a number of movies adapted from comics in the past few years. Spiderman and the X-Men films have shown that at least some of the time, Marvel knows what they're doing (the rest of the time, they're making Punisher, Daredevil and a TV movie of Manthing). But ever since DC handed Batman over to Joel Shomaker, it's as if the Men in Suits at Time Warner have lost their collective

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My little Star Wars rant ran long and some may find a hint of desperation in the tone. With the Star Wars movies done at last and no new Star Trek series/ movie on the horizon, there's been talk of a void in the world of geekdom. Some are concerned we've lost our guiding light and that geeks like me are flailing because the sagas of our childhood have finally come to a close. Luckily, our young

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Years from now, Sociologists may be able to explain why my wife and I spent a perfectly good Saturday afternoon standing in line to see Revenge of the Sith.Going into the theater, I was expecting to be disappointed. After all, no one in their right mind would expect Lucas to pull himself out of the pool of money he's been wallowing in for the last twenty five years and actually make a decent film

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About two weeks ago I wrote about Paul Boutin's critique of Wikipedia at Slate, in which he criticizes Wikipedia for not working at the same level as Encarta, or other web based encylopedias.* As Bryan pointed out in comments, Microsoft owns Encarta. I suggested that they also own Slate. Well, this morning, I received an e-mail from the author:Hi Keith,I enjoy a good open-source rant as much as

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I'm filling out applications and what I'm wondering is, do I put the Blog on my resume? Some of the jobs I'm applying for want web experience. Besides the College Website that I've been maintaining for the last year and a half, I've been fiddling with this site for over two years now. Should I include it on my resume or not? Would it be a liability or a bonus?

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So, last night, I'm sitting on the couch watching TV while Elvira is fixing dinner. Our couch is just below the window in the living room, by which I mean, the whole front wall. Our building is circa 1951, and the windows go from about three feet from the floor all the way up and as wide as the whole room. That wall is nothing but window. Unfortunately, these windows don't really open. They have

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The Knights Templar were an unusual order in that they were not merely knights but monks as well. Founded by Hugh de Paynes in 1118 as a charitable order, the Knights took up residence in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem and dedicated themselves to protecting pilgrims who ventured to the Holy land during the Crusades. They became wealthy, which made them envied and branched out into the money

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For about two years now, I've been wanting to read City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff VanderMeer. Normally, I would just go to Amazon (or the above linked publisher) and try to find the earliest hardback edition, and dig in. The problem is, their are several editions, some out of print, others almost so, all with different amounts of material between the covers. See, the book is a collection of

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"Scientology is rooted in strict scientific principles, such as the measurement of engrams in the brain by the E-Meter," Kurz said. "Scientology uses strictly scientific methodologies to undo the damage done 75 million years ago by the Galactic Confederation's evil warlord Xenu—we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind. Conversely, Fictionology is essentially

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After traveling the world, fighting monsters, saving damsels, drinking rough men under the table, defying the very Gods themselves (and gaining a Masters Degree in Library Science in the process), I have returned home at last.I'll probably write more about Grad School when I have sufficient distance between it and me but for now, I'll say simply that I learned much, forgot some and have become a

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I'm on the road to Georgia. Be back Thursday.

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Is Wikipedia the real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Paul Boutin at Slate seems to think so:The parallels between The Hitchhiker's Guide (as found in Adams' original BBC radio series and novels) and Wikipedia are so striking, it's a wonder that the author's rabid fans don't think he invented time travel. Since its editor was perennially out to lunch, the Guide was amended "by any passing

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The end of Grad School is in sight. My work is done and now, all I have to do is pack up for the drive home to Savannah. When I came to Baltimore, I had three suitcases, a small filing cabinet and a box of books. I'm going home with at least three times that many books and who knows what else. Packing should be fun.So, posting may be intermittent but when is it not? Once I'm home and settled a

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I'm running a bit behind on my goal of reading 50 books in a year. It's already May and I'm just now hitting #10. (#9 was The Princess Bride, which I wrote about here).#10 is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.It's been a long time since I've read a whole novel strait through in a day. Hell, it's been a long time since I could devote so much time for such a hedonistic task. But

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Frank Perretti has a new book about that most evil and satanic of monsters, Sasquatch:"My goal is to make them think about evolution," he said. "Evolution as a philosophy makes monsters out of all us. It removes all that makes us human - morals, virtue, love, honor, self-sacrifice. All those become illusory. I'm trying to raise some questions. Who is the real monster here?That would be you, Frank

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Greetings to all my Communist Comrades!Secret handshakes to my Anarchist buddies!For all you Socialist Workers out there, keep up the good work!I hope all you Witches had a lovely Walpurgis Night and many happy turns around the May Pole! Think of me whilst you frolic.It's a joy to see hundreds of little Catholic School Children twirling around a fertility symbol, all in honor of the Virgin.

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Over at the Socialist Review, Mark Bould muses on the subject of H.G. Wells legacy (by way of the new Spielberg-Cruise movie). He makes an interesting point about the failure of our utopian dreams to manifest properly:In his early scientific romances Wells depicted the vast expanse of space and time, and our relative insignificance. Like Darwin, Marx and Freud, he punctured the illusion of

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I just received an e-mail from a friend who works at the Library of Congress:There are rumours floating about that if [current Librarian of Congress, James H.] Billington retires, Bush would assign Lynne Cheney.HORRORS!Horrors is right. As Bob Harris put it, this isn't Government, it's Dada performance art.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1114442631191026522005-04-25T11:08:00.000-04:002005-04-25T14:19:15.216-04:00

Yahoo News (AFP):LONDON (AFP) - Young girls who enjoy classic romantic fairy tales like "Cinderella" and "Beauty and the Beast" are at greater risk of becoming victims of violent relationships in later life, a British researcher says.A study of both parents of primary school children and women who have been involved in domestic abuse claims than those who grew up reading fairy tales are likely to

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1114280531862714672005-04-23T14:08:00.000-04:002005-04-23T14:23:33.413-04:00

Kevin and I were in need of some mindless entertainment last night, so we went to see Sahara. Surprisingly, it was a lot of fun. I expected the standard bad dialogue and gagging oneliners but there weren't any. Too my surprise, it was a tightly plotted adventure movie and Penelope Cruz didn't completely suck.The most implausable plot element, the Civil War Ironclad that sails across the Atlantic

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1114179694005996812005-04-22T10:17:00.000-04:002005-04-22T10:31:39.276-04:00

I'm feeling the effects of too much Grad School today. I'm tired, in that mentally exhausted way I haven't been since... Well, end of last semester. This time is different, though. I'm done with School, forever this time, in about three weeks. Then a bit of a vacation. Then it's continuing on with the job search. Should be fun.Also, I've made a few changes to the sidebar, added a few new links

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1114008539872656892005-04-20T10:43:00.000-04:002005-04-20T10:48:59.873-04:00

This story may have gotten ignored in the ruckus surrounding Pope Palpatine* and the slow-motion car wreck of Tom Delay's political career but the results of it will far outlive both:For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilization. If only it was legible.Now, in

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113933020342375432005-04-19T13:42:00.000-04:002005-04-20T10:49:20.066-04:00

ABC News:VATICAN CITY Apr 19, 2005- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the church's leading hard-liner, was elected the new pope Tuesday evening in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI and called himself "a simple, humble worker."So much for the hopes of love, peace and a more tolerant, progressive Catholic Church.UPDATE 4/20: Pope Palpatine's Wild

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113858328885699972005-04-18T16:34:00.000-04:002005-04-19T12:27:01.886-04:00

Mike, at the Corpuscle has an interesting take on the ID debate: We can't know, of course, why Sir John's outfit is putting up the money for (post-)Dr. Murphy's research. Based on what we do know, however, we can probably assume that somebody thinks that studying the possibility of changing universal constants will lead to some sort of evidence of God. Which, you know, I think is great. As

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113574929367334942005-04-15T10:14:00.000-04:002005-04-15T10:22:09.366-04:00

Today is another busy Friday. This semester, I've been doing an internship and on Wednesdays and Fridays, I spend the whole day locked away in the special collections room of a library, handling moldy books. Not exactly how I intended to spend my second anniversary as the savior of media as we know it/ scourge of mainstream media as we know it/ harbinger of the end of Western civilization-- a

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113407396881653242005-04-13T11:49:00.000-04:002005-04-17T13:12:43.153-04:00

To LC member, Rivka who, on Monday gave birth to a baby otter.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113236293486283682005-04-11T12:12:00.000-04:002005-04-11T18:20:50.616-04:00

...From the Unitarian Jihad:We are Unitarian Jihad. We are everywhere. We have not been born again, nor have we sworn a blood oath. We do not think that God cares what we read, what we eat or whom we sleep with. Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity notes for the record that he does not have a moral code but is nevertheless a good person, and Unexalted Leader Garrote of Forgiveness stipulates that

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1113154876776004502005-04-10T13:00:00.000-04:002005-04-11T12:12:02.370-04:00

I've been trying to wrestle my thoughts about the Pope's death into a coherent shape for the last week. Not being Catholic, I don't owe the man any more respect than that paid to the average schmoe I never met, if that. There's a lot of talk about how the Pope helped the poor but you know what? There are still poor people in the world and the Pope still lives in a palace. Frankly, I never liked

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112991380407621402005-04-08T16:14:00.000-04:002005-04-08T16:16:20.406-04:00

Rather than a long weekend. I feel like climbing into a paper bag and hiding, too. Remember, kids, Grad School is a lot of fun. Sure it is.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112738206890984792005-04-05T17:40:00.000-04:002005-04-05T17:56:46.893-04:00

We had an informal workshop at work today about Google, not just Google the search engine but Google the social phenomenon. The Google Perspective. ePIC 2014. The group seemed to agree that professional researchers build their skills not by choosing which fancy tools they use, but by working the basics of the trade - kinda like the word processor doesn't make the writer (but the clothes make

Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112726627442480132005-04-05T14:42:00.000-04:002005-04-09T13:28:22.336-04:00

John Halbo has been dissecting the work of sociopolitical Philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, specifically in this post, concerning his (to me) rather incoherent definition of Liberalism. It's an interesting discussion, one that gets to the heart of a major problem that liberas have been wrestling with for the last decade or so, the problem of identity.This problem arises from the fact that there is no

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112714356127612502005-04-05T11:16:00.000-04:002005-04-05T11:19:16.130-04:00

Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing linked to the Starbuck's Delocator, which in principal, sounds like a great idea: a website that helps you locate non-Starbuck cafes. In reality though, the site leaves a lot to be desired.First off, the entire site is one long chain of popups. Because everyone loves popups.Secondly, as Cory points out, they don't actually use the Starbuck's name anywhere on

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112565440912211562005-04-03T17:37:00.000-04:002005-04-03T22:34:38.853-04:00

Over at the Battlestar Galactica Blog, Ron Moore discusses the implications of Starbuck's torture scene, and other troubling moral quandaries that have been addressed on the show:1Would I personally behave the same way in similar circumstances? I hope not, but neither am I so confident of my own immunity to the pressures felt by an interrogator charged with finding a nuclear weapon or to the

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112556622771117082005-04-03T15:23:00.000-04:002005-04-04T11:51:44.870-04:00

April is National Poetry Month. Last year, I posted a few poems to celebrate. Seems the trend is catching on this year. Glad to know I started something besides that fire on the living room table.Wild Dreams of a New BeginningLawrence FerlinghettiThere's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112553615931170832005-04-03T14:11:00.000-04:002005-04-03T18:41:45.036-04:00

Kevin, Jenny and I saw Sin City Friday night. Fantastic. The single best adaptation of comic to film, ever. It seems to be getting mixed reviews, however. Those, like me who've read the graphic novels love it. Those who aren't familiar with the source material however, seem to come out shocked and disturbed by the violence. I find this odd, since the title of the movie is Sin City. Not Pleasent

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112475861272697222005-04-02T15:36:00.000-05:002005-04-02T18:07:00.273-05:00

Pope John Paul II is dead. Being non-Christian, this effects me quite a bit less than my Catholic wife (she's never really been a fan but is Catholic, still). I've always given the Pope credit for dragging one of the most reactionary and regressive institutions in the world kicking and screaming into the 18th century by recognizing heliocentrism (and thus, pardoning Galileo), making ecumenical

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112375817713974452005-04-01T12:11:00.000-05:002005-04-01T12:18:52.560-05:00

It's April 1 and starting to feel like Spring, at last, at last. Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a fine assortment of notions making the rounds today. Be sure to check out Wikipedia's selected article of the day as well.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112304647706017012005-03-31T16:21:00.000-05:002005-03-31T16:30:47.706-05:00

Boy In Darkness, by Mervyn Peake.I had never heard of this strange little aside to the Gormanghast trilogy but, among Peake fans, this is considered a rare gem of a read.Nestled somewhere inbetween Titus Groan and Gormanghast, this novella tells the story of Titus on his 14th birthday. In a fit of Pique, he leaves Gormanghast, finding himself in a desolate gray, dusty land populated by two

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112225515924296332005-03-30T18:28:00.000-05:002005-03-30T22:06:31.486-05:00

You never heard much talk about the Enemies of Civilization before 9/11. That is one of the few things that the WTC disaster did change. It's all we hear about now. The Enemies of Western Civilization (EOWC) supposedly crouch in caves, polishing their homemade explosives, plotting to blow up our churches and unravel the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, just because they have no churches or Brooklyn

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1112121611920187592005-03-29T13:27:00.000-05:002005-03-30T14:44:38.820-05:00

So, I'm back from vacation and it's right back into the thick of it for me. Spent yesterday catching up on work I ignored while spending the week with my wife. Today has been all about the car. Seems I need new rear brakes, and front tires. Fun. Anyway, here's a few pictures from Spring Break. Elvira and I spent several days in museums. We went to the Baltimore Museum of Art (The Slide Show was

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1111774137957087942005-03-25T13:03:00.000-05:002005-03-25T13:08:57.960-05:00

We're staying with my aunt and uncle and their two cats (and a dog). One of the cats, Smoky, managed to get upstairs into our room and hide under the table, where Elvira took this picture of the demon cat with moon eyes. Below is what Smoky looks like when he hasn't swallowed the moon. Haley wouldn't sit still long enough for a picture.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1111596616254056622005-03-23T11:48:00.000-05:002005-03-28T13:10:25.303-05:00

General consensus was that the black background was a little hard on the eyes. I like this one better. Also, after extensive research, it looks like I won't be able to afford to switch over to Typepad right now. So, it's Blogger for me for a little while longer.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1111535746108855642005-03-22T18:45:00.000-05:002005-03-23T12:02:52.923-05:00

I'm still on vacation and enjoying myself very much. I'll have a full report when I get back into the grind on Monday.Even though I'm not really trying to keep up with news, I can't help but add my two cents about the Terri Schiavo kerfluffle: If she were poor or brown skinned, Georgie and Jeb would be falling over themselves to see who could get to the hospital first to pull the plug. Note to

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110989733232094372005-03-16T11:11:00.000-05:002005-03-24T17:31:30.596-05:00

Posting will be slight to non existent for the next week or so. It's Spring Break and I'm pooped. When we return, however, there will be a few changes to the Library. Here's a rough preview of one major change that I'm considering. Kevin and Jay may pop in from time to time so there could be some activity here but as for me, I'm going on vacation. Turn off the lights when you leave.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110897549927003252005-03-15T09:37:00.000-05:002005-03-15T11:21:52.273-05:00

"My mother's a librarian, but I hate to read," Sharon Grover's son is quoted as saying in today's Washington Post article by Valerie Strauss about boys and reading, page A12. [Does this sound like a radio ad for the paper, or what?]One of the basic intellectual and emotional challenges people face, I think, is nesting one's own talents and gifts with those of a community, either a biological or

Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110857276141324552005-03-14T22:06:00.000-05:002005-03-15T09:27:09.846-05:00

So, we had a guest speaker in my class today who gave a presentation (for an hour and a half) on resumes, cover letters and interviews. But she spent the bulk of the time describing in detail the new trend in library interview techniques, the Portfolio Presentation. Apparently, we now have to have a nice big book full of awards, cirtificates and thank-you letters scribbled in crayon from drooling

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110814980155833582005-03-14T10:32:00.000-05:002005-03-14T11:39:01.930-05:00

On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt.Bullshit is the operative word here. "Pure Academic Masturbation" would have been a more apt title. It's a good thing the book is only 68 very small pages of very large type, or else I would feel cheated by the time I spent reading it. There's probably a good reason no one has ever written a philosophical treatise concerning the nature of Bullshit before. Who

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110567146381755172005-03-11T13:43:00.000-05:002005-03-11T13:52:26.383-05:00

So, it turns out that the kid arrested for writing a Zombie story, didn't in fact include any zombies in the story. He did however, arrange to acquire stolen weapons and ammunition and write a scene describing people being shot. Then he lied to the press about the details. Thanks, William Poole for making me, and a lot of other people sensitive to free speech issues, feel like fucking tools. Now,

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110564980173177972005-03-11T13:13:00.000-05:002005-03-11T13:16:20.176-05:00

Lucy has a good idea. I wish I could take a nap...And, as if there weren't enough pictures of Lucy on the Internets, she now has her own webpage at Catster (which is like Friendster, except for... cats).

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110561139568033312005-03-11T12:07:00.000-05:002005-03-11T12:12:19.570-05:00

The King of Zembla pointed me to this conversation at Swans.com between Joe Bageant, Phil Rockstroh and John Steppling. Some rather bright fellows, I must say, wondering aloud about the world around us. It's long, fraught with introspection and a vocabulary as vast as the night. I highly recommend it. An excerpt, to drive you there:...Reading requires empathy and, again, eros. The rising of the

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110487699595127532005-03-11T10:50:00.000-05:002005-03-11T19:37:12.686-05:00

English as She is Spoke, by Jose de Fonesca and Pedro Carolino.In the mid nineteenth century, hoping to cash in on the craze for language phrase books for travelers, da Fonesca decided to fill a much needed gap and write a book translating common words and phrases from Portuguese to English. That he spoke not a word of English was not a hindrance. The intrepid da Fonesca had at his disposal a

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110423155666992112005-03-09T21:51:00.000-05:002005-03-11T11:12:32.850-05:00

First, a little site maintenance: I've been meaning to add this link for a week or more but life's been hectic. Better late than never though: the site feed is now active for all you atom subscribers out there (over on the sidebar, under Familial Blogs). Also, continuing my Open Source Evangelism, I've added a button at the bottom of the page, linking to OpenOffice.org, a fantastic, free

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110384369279495582005-03-09T10:58:00.000-05:002005-03-09T11:06:44.370-05:00

With this posting I celebrate my blog self, completely, utterly, and proudly. Should any ALA president find a photo of my friend's cat anti-intellectual, he's just outta the loop and didn't get the memo.Teshup is my pin up, of a kind. Teshup and I share a friend who's in Turkey, and I miss our mutual friend a lot.To all the cats in the world, I love you.

Kevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110308280678313202005-03-08T13:56:00.000-05:002005-03-08T13:58:00.680-05:00

Anyone else find it ironic that an author known for her Vampire novels is writing a book about Jesus? Probably not.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1110298392653202812005-03-08T11:15:00.000-05:002005-03-08T11:13:12.656-05:00

Yesterday in Maryland it was 72 and sunny. Today, it is 33 and snowing. But global warming is just a myth, you understand. This sort of dramatic weather change is perfectly natural for the 8th of March.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109981275907594782005-03-04T19:07:00.000-05:002005-03-04T19:07:55.910-05:00

Fish tanks are like TV for cats.

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109980277713160302005-03-04T16:53:00.000-05:002005-03-04T18:51:17.720-05:00

Hello, again, everyone.Three things: Good news, bad news, and "the consolation of philosophy". The good news first.I have to thank Keith and E. A couple of years ago they introduced me to a little movie called Donnie Darko. They knew that I would be drawn to the themes of time travel and (let's call it) Loophole Causality, because it's the kind of thing K. and I used to love to discuss at

Jaynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109883143875808112005-03-03T15:43:00.000-05:002005-03-03T15:58:51.323-05:00

When I was in high school, I wrote a short story about a superhero named Bedlam who had tentacles in his arms and killed a criminal by impaling him on an iron fence. Not my best effort, but my creative writing teacher really liked it, because it was descriptive and imaginative.I sure am glad I don't go to high school these days, where they arrest kids for writing stories about their schools being

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109881719890412872005-03-03T15:12:00.000-05:002005-03-03T15:28:39.893-05:00

Because we elect bugeyed twits like Michael Gorman to head the ALA. From Library Journal:It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109795172280258312005-03-02T15:10:00.000-05:002005-03-02T15:26:12.283-05:00

As a follow up to my post on UU and science fiction, here's a sermon from Rev. Bruce Clear of All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana about the most unlikely Cradle of Unitarianism, Transylvania:Unitarianism we celebrate today began nearly 450 years ago in Transylvania. The story I tell about the commitment to freedom and reason in religion has continued unbroken through the centuries

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109789131883089922005-03-02T13:15:00.000-05:002005-03-02T15:28:13.603-05:00

I've made a few minor changes in the last few days. The biggy is that I've activated the Invisible Library's Atom feed so I'm all RSS capable, which means if you're even lazier than usual, you can read my titles and the first paragraphs without ever even coming to the website.Edited to delete a rant. Who cares?

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109545794690608022005-02-27T18:07:00.000-05:002005-02-27T18:09:54.693-05:00

Cory Doctorow found this essay by Will Shetterly, which says everything about Science fiction/Fantasy writing's relationship to religion that I've been wanting to say, but couldn't. I tried, but every time, it devolved into a rant about the imbecility and intolerance of Conservative Christians attitudes towards Literature of the Imagination (see, I still can't even just link to it without pulling

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109450629028625332005-02-26T15:37:00.000-05:002005-02-27T19:57:55.693-05:00

It started with a snow storm, both a real fluffy white one outside and a metaphorical storm of words, falling form my head. Thursday morning, I woke to find it snowing and the university closed. This was perfect, as I wanted to get a little writing done that day. And boy, did I. I wrote nearly ten pages of the new version of the story I've been working on.For those keeping track at home, this is

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109341212094924662005-02-25T09:18:00.000-05:002005-02-25T09:20:12.096-05:00

Anyone who doesn't think we're sliding into some nascent American version of fascism needs to read this. Everyone else who has noticed needs to read it as well. From the Fort Worth Weekly:The war on terror, coupled with budget deficits, seems to have morphed into a war on information."This administration is trying to keep information from the U.S. citizens,'' said Monika Antonelli, a UNT

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109336880222357742005-02-25T08:04:00.000-05:002005-02-25T08:08:00.223-05:00

Since I was home last weekened, I was able to get a whole new crop of Lucy pics. It's too bad she isn't here in Baltimore, as I'd think she'd really enjoy the six inches of snow on the ground. Perhaps next year...

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109173248553575312005-02-23T17:15:00.000-05:002005-02-23T17:27:03.626-05:00

Via Boing Boing, I found this link to a collection of still shots from Star Wars Episode III. I recommend them to anyone who, like me, is morbidly curious but doesn't want to give any more money to George Lucas.My beef with George Lucas is this:One of the fondest and earliest memories of my childhood was when I was six years old. The day I graduated from Kindergarten, my father took me out to

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109089050415929012005-02-22T11:13:00.000-05:002005-02-22T11:40:52.316-05:00

The one Dick Cheney said was stolen as a result of the unruliness of war? Well, one more thing the election in Iraq didn't fix was theft of national treasures. Asia Times:CARACAS - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan

Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1109009113136305282005-02-21T13:02:00.000-05:002005-02-21T19:17:13.903-05:00

I rolled out of bed at four AM this morning, kissed my wife goodbye and hopped a plane back to the Nation's Capitol. 600 miles of screaming air and fog and rain to come back here and wrestle the swine, to sit in my office and read the news: Hunter S. Thompson is dead.My world is unhinged, just a little more. And not just because of the teenaged, spanish speaking Civil War re-enactors sitting

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