One of my old friends from high school who I haven’t seen in around 6 years came up to visit this weekend. We ran around Boston (not so much fun in the rain) and went to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which I thought was very much a style over substance movie, [...]

One of my recent resolutions was to try to revive my atrophied Japanese langugage skills. I was trying to make myself study in a very painless way so instead of pulling out any of my 4 or 5 Japanese textbooks, I decided to try to read some manga in Japanese. One of the things that [...]

I had a very strange day today. I was so groggy this morning, I forgot to sign the UPS slip to enable the delivery guy to leave my package with the 3rd season of Alias at my door. Oh, the trauma! What will I do? I’m seriously uninvested in the new fall tv season. I [...]

The Condiment Packet Museum (via Mr. Sun). I like the lemon juice and hot sauce packets.

I was happy when I woke up today and discovered this link for the Sin City footage from ComicCon, because nothing goes better with your morning coffee than watching Clive Owen (sigh) threatening someone with a razor blade. I wonder if the completed movie will have comic book panels incorporated into the live action [...]

I’m glad that LISBlogsource is more active right now, I found out today that a significant library from My Youth now has a blog. I got such a kick out of it. It doesn’t surprise me that this library has a blog, as the head librarian is totally cool and always trying new things. I [...]

Veerle is sharing all of her CSS bookmarks, all organized in a PDF file with hyperlinks to each site. Very nice!
I enjoyed this post on bookslut about the books that changed the way Jessa read.
I had to watch The Benefactor, since I am such a Dallas Mavericks fan. I guess only Mark Cuban would eliminate [...]

Hey, I’m trying to see about setting up a blog for internal reference desk communication at work. Right now everyone scribbles things down on a piece of paper when something happens at the desk that everyone needs to know about. I’ve set up a demo reference desk blog here. Registration is open. If you feel [...]

Dorothea over at Caveat Lector has been making some observations about usability (on More Stupid Opac Tricks and RefWorks and Usability) lately that resonate with my own experiences over the past year working with RefWorks and revamping an OPAC.
Having just transitioned to a new OPAC, I served on the committee that was responsible for the [...]

Thanks to Blankbaby for pointing out that Netflix now offers RSS feeds, I could even subscribe to my queue, or add it to my blog somewhere. Hmmmm…