I stopped at a thrift store today, and started perusing the books, as I am wont to do. And much to my delighted surprise, I found a copy old copies of Baby-sitters Club books. The series was my absolute favorite when I was a kid, and when I found out a few years ago they [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The Baby-Sitters Club
Posted in books on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oooh, surveys are fun
Posted in personal on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just saw this one on Alison’s awesome blog, Spinstah. No, I wasn’t tagged, but I don’t even care. I’m going to answer it because I have a weird fondness for survey questions and these are good. And I would tag Miss Crystal with this one, but I highly suspect her blog won’t be updated [...]
OpenCongress.org
Posted in politics on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to ReadWriteWeb (how did I only just start reading this blog?) for bringing to attention OpenCongress.org–this is a great site that pulls together tons of information on the US Congress and offers users a variety of ways to stay up-to-date about their Congressional representatives and all the (probably nefarious) activities going on in Washington. [...]
Everything is Miscellaneous
Posted in books, cataloging, education, technology on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up Everything is Miscellaneous to read while on vacation, and was promptly made fun of by my library school colleagues, because, apparently, it’s an assigned text in one of the cataloging classes. Well, I commend the person who’s assigning this book, because it’s really excellent. David Weinberger does a great job talking about [...]
