Last night I dreamt I was on the reference desk, when a strange man with a mustache came up and needed help researching an obscure Russian scientist. He was carrying a stack of ripped up pages from a Superman comic book and when I asked him how to spell the Russian last name he started [...]

I got the best calendar on sale for $3, the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events Calendar 2004. It now hangs proudly in my cubicle at work, inspiring me with quotes scattered around on random dates, like this one for yesterday:
“It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
-Wallace Stevens
Followed [...]

On tomatonation’s “Ask an Expert” series, advice on interviewing.
Also on AskMetafilter.

I hadn’t realized that Eugene Volokh wrote the amicus brief for the McFarlane/Tony Twist case that the Supreme Court refused to hear.

Why, why, why, do the Mavericks keep losing? Where was my team from last season? Why did they lose to Detroit? Why was Michael Finley only shooting 2-10? Who on earth decided it would be a good idea to let Antoine Walker take 5 3 point shots in one game (it goes without saying that [...]

I was able to free up an extra bookcase in my house by buying some cheap shelves for my dvds (I was holding the camera crooked, it doesn’t actually lean):

I was able to do some shifting around, and I now actually have a few inches of empty space on a couple shelves, and instead of [...]

Some of the recent topics in online comicfandom �trades vs monthlies,� �what to do about the kids� have got me reflecting a bit.
I think only in comics would you find people suggesting that customers have an obligation �to the industry� to purchase product in a certain format (monthly form as opposed to trade paperbacks) [...]

Via Waxy’s links, refgruting is on memepool.
Wow, we are so trendy!

Tokyopop has their web page up for Princess Ai (via Shawn Fumo) the manga series that features some sort of connection with Courtney Love and character designs from Yazawa Ai. Ok, we have “co-creators” and character designers but WHO is acutally writing and drawing this volume? I’m curious. My curiosity will probably extend to reading [...]

I’ve decided that having an ipod would make me a better librarian. I don’t know if I want one of the pretty tiny colorful ones or one of the older models. Having an ipod would make me a better librarian because I listen to music all day at work (not while I’m on the reference [...]