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• drinking tea. #
• @edheil one *swills* a latte, not sips. in reply to edheil #
• Playing with Google Top Draw ( http://tinyurl.com/4fea7n ) So far underwhelmed – seems kinda MacPaintish. #
• Smacking down odds and ends. Damn odd ends they are too, I might add. #
• @UDCMRK Ah, thanks. How is the EOL Dramatic World Component Champion Leaders of Strength meeting going? in reply to UDCMRK #
• @UDCMRK What is POD, Martin? in reply to UDCMRK #
• In the office. IA carts just shipped out. Aleve kicking in. Coffee hot. Now onto CONTENTdm. #
• Actually, this is the one I meant: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/9/29yoder.html #
• Currently Browsing: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ #
• @jacgreen Thanks, me too. Nope, warn’t invited. Where is it? in reply to jacgreen #
• @chrisfreeland Ah, thanks. Is that like 4-H for EOL Components? in reply to chrisfreeland #
• Palin Quote Generator: http://palinquotes.awardspace.com/ #
• @jacgreen Crashed the bike on the 2nd day of 2 wk vaca and fractured the humerus in my left shoulder. Started PT last wk, prob 3-5 wks more. in reply to jacgreen #
• @cavlec Thanks for the encouragement. I’m detrmined to get all the mobility lost back, so I’m sticking it out and buying Advil by the gross. in reply to cavlec #
• @chrisfreeland Which meeting is this now? in reply to chrisfreeland #

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• @udcmrk http://twitpic.com/ddug – Your point? 🙂 in reply to UDCMRK #
• @pilsks Physical therapy started this week. Arm is starting to feel usable again, but I’m eating advil like cocktail peanuts. in reply to pilsks #
• @pilsks You ain’t missin’ much. in reply to pilsks #
• Currently Browsing: http://moma.org/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/ #
• Also considering “speedballing” Tylenol and advil, but unsure if I shd be living that fast. #
• @pdxmph Man, them donuts must be good. What donuts are they? in reply to pdxmph #
• @chrisfreeland Cool – what is up with that? in reply to chrisfreeland #
• "We keep the 2.5 bn bonuses or the economy gets it. Come alone. We see any taxpayers and the economy dies." WTF is WRONG with … #
• Sign the Bernie Sanders letter, I did: http://tinyurl.com/4e5umu #
• Being amazed at the bright colors and flashing lights one sees when the nice physical therapist bends your injured arm back behind the neck. #
• The only reasonable response to these people: take them out and flay them alive: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/fashion/21dim.html #
• $700 billion for a do-over AND *I* get stuck with all their bad debt? Um, NO THANKS #

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• ending my brief flirtation with the translucent menu bar. Glad THAT’s over with. #
• @edheil It’s the only truly honest answer, though. in reply to edheil #
• In the office, aching arm, getting ready to delve into OPAC webpages. An hour till the next Tylenol. #
• @PearTreePens Thank Ghod. I sent that and thought, “maybe it’s completely obscure.” in reply to PearTreePens #
• can’t resist: so long, pink floyd wright… #
• discovering that you need really good todo when you’re not sleeping much #
• having more fun with digitization and opacs. #
• On the train with a bunch of loud dumb prep school kids. #
• Back in the office on 4 straight hours and 2 or 3 broken ones. Sleep, I knew ye well oncet. Coffee, tylenol, Philip Whalen, black ink. #

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• http://twitpic.com/b32h – 7 years #
• Remembering. 7 years. #
• remebering. & years. #
• Heading into a general NYBG staff meeting #
• Plowing on through the afternoon. #
• lunched #
• back in the damn office again. Talk about your wheel of samsara. #
• still waiting #
• waiting. #

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• @UDCMRK Yikes. We’re going out for Indian. in reply to UDCMRK #
• sweating and waiting on the storm #
• up, not at ’em. #
• Wondering whether I want to buy a copy of Tetris DS from Oz via Fleabay. #
• @PearTreePens if the Bexley were a fp I’d probably go for it – well, and if my pen budget for the month wasn’t wholly depleted. in reply to PearTreePens #
• wondering why MoodBlast went toothless. #
• @DennisLively Close – it’s Ernie Bushmiller’s immortal Nancy. in reply to DennisLively #
• Back from ortho – no surgery. Bone is knitting, have started dangling the hand in circles. Amazingly painful. #
• @UDCMRK Or maybe you should – could be a great rarity someday! in reply to UDCMRK #
• digging into CONTENTdm. ANd so it begins. #
• back in the office – how does this keep happening? #

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The Fischer Prince

Bobby Fischer, Chess Master, Dies at 64 – New York Times:

When I was 12, Fischer was responsible for my wanting to play chess. Of course, he had not yet become a raving lunatic.

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Correspondence

Paul Greenleaf – Photographer:

An interesting exhibition where the photographer photographed scenes from old postcards in the present day:

I aim to highlight how the land has changed physically, by neglect, ‘development’ or sometimes coastal erosion, and the way the landscape has changed culturally, illustrating changing trends. The work exposes clichés within these rose-tinted tourist towns and offers a modern day alternative to the picturesque.

The written notes from the cards, with all their inherent idiosyncrasies are integral to the work, providing a narrative to the photograph and a unique insight into people’s lives.

With the original postcards exhibited alongside the photographs, I invite a direct comparison between the past and present, both being subjective viewpoints. The 21st century ‘reality’ of the locations offers a stark contrast to the often vibrantly coloured dream-like postcard images, revealing a personal view of contemporary Britain.’

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Quote of the day

From Paul Ford, writing in Harper’s e-mail weekly:

“A broken heart,” explained a brain imaging research scientist, “looks different in somebody old.”

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AmaZune

Color me entirely underwhelmed by Amazon’s Kindle. For one thing, the thing is fugly. Wickit fugly, as we say in New England. The thing looks like it was designed by the people who did my thermostat. A tricorder looks more modern. So for four hundred dollars, I get a basically single purpose machine. I can pay more money to get DRM’d content onto this machine (It’ll hold 2 grand worth of ebooks!,) or I can jump through hoops to get my own content onto it, including paying yet more money (“conversion fees”) to get the most widely available eBook format (PDF) onto it. Plus did I mention it’s really ugly? I happened to run across my old Sony Magic Link yesterday while doing some cleaning, and it’s much more attractive than the Kindle.

But wait! you say. It’s got an always-on network connection, via EVDO. Yes, an always-on connection to Amazon.com. But, you say, it will vastly expand the act of reading. It will finally provide the rich information contexts that that poor old slob the printed codex book has lacked on its dance card for centuries. So even better – I can take one of the few activities – book reading – where I can hear myself think without having to incorporate the contributions of the Teeming Millions, and now i can see what other people thought of the book? I want to see what I think of the book.

So, this is sort of like an always-on iPod with no iTunes that only connects to Apple with really tight DRM on the content you buy for it.

Hey – it’s the Zune for books!

Sorry, but I remain skeptical. You can spend the same amount on the OLPC Give One Get One program, get a much more versatile machine that’d make a terrific eBook reader, and do some good in the world.

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