username, why I hardly

All of the careful scheduling of student assistants I did for the first week of the semester is shot to hell, because half of the students didn’t update their class schedules in the software I use, and the other half had class schedule changes within the past week. However, I did accomplish one thing just now: all you wonderful LiveJournal folks can now use your LJ usernames to comment on my entries instead of signing up for TypeKey usernames. (You still have to come on over to my site to do it, though.) And with this, I gallop into the three-day weekend, mildly victorious.

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Posted on 13 Jan 2006 | 7 comments

dear petty girl on the plane

You know, this “best of craigslist” post might be funny to me if it didn’t perfectly exemplify a trait I abhor that seems to be more prevalent with each passing day. If you’re going to discriminate against someone, or a group of someones, be honest about it. Don’t be all fake-nice and state things like “i by no means hate fat people” in the middle of a rant about a fat person who deigned to sit next to you on a plane and inconvenienced you by forcing you — o, the injustice! — to interact with her in order to move your seat back. Did that happen, what, a total of twice? Three times? In over nine hours of flying? What, did just being near a fat person make you so insecure about your own vanity that you...

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Posted on 13 Jan 2006 | 2 comments

links for 2006-01-13

Libraries Build Communities A blog by two librarians dedicated to community-building by library staff. (tags: libraries community) iSale 3.0 “iSale 3.0 is the ultimate eBay auctioning solution for your Mac. With it’s [sic] new slick iTunes-like design and intuitive interface, it is your iApp for eBay.” (tags: macosx ebay software) Online Scrabble at the Pixie Pit Thanks, Inkbot! (tags: games scrabble free) SmartShare Headphone splitter with individual volume control. (tags: ipod headphones hardware) Chandler “a next-generation Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrating calendar, e-mail, contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging” (tags: opensource PIM GTD calendar email tools...

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Posted on 13 Jan 2006 | 2 comments

links for 2006-01-12

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript Use this against telemarketers. (tags: telemarketing hacks humor)

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Posted on 12 Jan 2006 | Comments Off

dear mobile phone user

Dear Mobile Phone User: Shut. Up. I do not want to hear about your new shoe purchases. I do not want to hear about how you can’t believe what a dickhead that manager was to you in that one meeting. I do not want to hear about how no he di-int, o yes he di-id. I do not want to hear your vapid, codependent rambling, period. You may think that these things are important, but I can assure you, I do not give one iota of one shit about your life, just like you so obviously do not give one about mine. The difference between us is I’m not force-feeding my daily melodrama into your precious little eardrums. Here is what I want: I want to live my life without listening to you talk on the phone. I want to ride the bus and be able to concentrate on the book I am...

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Posted on 11 Jan 2006 | 6 comments

heaven is

Heaven is successfully backing up eight years’ worth of email and photos while eating pork and beans and listening to the Orb’s “Cydonia” album by latte-scented candlelight. … and then going to bed because you have the latest delight from Jonathan Carroll to enjoy. Yum. Technorati Tags:...

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Posted on 11 Jan 2006 | 1 comment

links for 2006-01-11

ScholarlyStats Compiles usage statistics for libraries. (tags: statistics libraries) Meetro: It Breaks The Ice “Technically speaking, Meetro is radius and proximity based software. Untechnically speaking, it finds like-minded people around you instantly.” (tags: socialsoftware instantmessaging) StikiPad Simply the best wiki implementation I’ve found. I use it for both work and personal stuff. (tags: stikipad rails wiki) PackageMapper.com Package Mapper shows you a map of your FedEx, UPS, USPS package routes. (tags: google maps...

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links for 2006-01-07

Favorville : People Helping People Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. (tags: socialsoftware help community)

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Posted on 7 Jan 2006 | Comments Off

stikipad: whoa.

Last weekend, the MSG turned to me and said, “You are the most web-gadgety person I know.” Since he works in software, I consider this an accomplishment. A sick, sad accomplishment, but hey, I’ll take what I can get. I leap on the new website bandwagons as early as possible, not because I’m compulsive or anything … wait, yes, I am. But it’s more my curiosity than my compulsion. I want to try new things. I want to break new things. I want new things to surprise me and make me go “whoa” just like Keanu. Right before I break them. Sometimes people suffer because of my pursuit of the whoa. Because of me, Inkbot failed her saving throw against the online doll maker and spent multiple hours creating her friends in...

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Posted on 6 Jan 2006 | 2 comments

links for 2006-01-06

Incunabula Database — The Bancroft Library The Incunabula Collection of The Bancroft Library comprises more than 430 titles printed before 1501. The word “incunabula” is Latin for “swaddling clothes,” as these books are from the infancy of European printing, typeset and printed by hand from moveab (tags: books printing libraries) Springdoo Springdoo is a free service that lets you talk your emails. Anyone can now easily send talking emails in their own voice, without typing. (tags: email audio) yakalike A Firefox extension that lets you chat with other users visiting the same site. (Signups are currently disabled.) (tags: chat extensions...

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Posted on 6 Jan 2006 | Comments Off