I'm a postmodern tweaker technophile lit-geek working for the libraries of academia. This is a space for sharing those bits of life that don't have a proper place to go: mostly library stuff. Some snark.
“The incentive that you want to give people is to do the right thing…. It’s [your] job to enable people to do their best work, to protect them from people who would try to undermine that, and to make sure that they have the tools and resources they need to get it accomplished without anybody screwing with them… A [good] leader is somebody that you trust to do the right thing.”
Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.
As someone who has neglected his Codecademy account for months now, I can sympathize with the idea. As much as I love the idea of coding, I’d much rather be focusing on other types of problems (some of which may require a talented coder to conquer).
(Source: codinghorror.com)
Graduation day. Left early to avoid traffic but now have to wait 40min to get into the library! Oye.
My MLIS graduation robes came in the mail today!
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about everything else the man or the country does. Tomorrow morning we should certainly go back to being unhappy about drones and torture and global warming and everything else, but for today, let’s not pretend this was inevitable. This moment is a reasonably big deal. It’s a good thing, and it didn’t have to happen, but it did. The fact of its happening can be good without saying anything about the goodness of the person doing it. There’s still a ways to go, but this had to happen before we got there, and now it has. Hooray. Have a small drink.
A good day to be awake.
(via kthread)
John Hamm is my hero.
It’s not much, but this is a little display I put together in honor of Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), drawing from our K-12 Educator’s Collection.
I’ve been playing this on loop for the last 30 minutes.
I think this is due to your post about being interviewed. She said you were famous…which made me wonder the same as the person asking! :^PRight, that makes sense.
I think that was just a bit of flattery on the part of the Cardigan Librarian. Between twitter and tumblr I have a fair number of friends and followers, but hardly enough to qualify as famous!
Daniel is being modest: he is totally internet famous. I’m pretty sure there is a fan club. If not, I’m starting one.
