(Sigh.)
Maybe Ian should just start the ULA (Unemployed Librarians Association) with dues-paying members, and draw a salary from that. Except I’m not so sure that unemployed librarians would pay dues.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Interesting job posting
LIBRARIANS IN SPAAAAAACE!
I SHOULD NOT BE THIS EXCITED.
ALBANY EYE ALBANY EYE ALBANY EYE IS SORT OF BACK!!!
Ahem.
y halo thar editorial page
The NY Times editorial page is full of obviousness today.
YA THINK?! #1: The New College Try
Despite their image as meritocratic beacons of opportunity, the selective colleges serve less as vehicles of upward mobility than as transmitters of privilege from generation to generation.
YA THINK?! #2: Of Animal Eggs and Human Embryos
A respected team of stem cell researchers at …
Super-capitalism
Right now I’m listening to the Fresh Air podcast. I’m listening to an episode from a few weeks ago, an interview with Robert Reich on an issue dear to my heart, the problems with super-capitalism (big box stores, large companies, and the rest of the current state of things) and the problems and choices caused …
Park Avenue (west of Empire State Plaza) Albany, NY
Some days at work, I’m able to get a parking space at on the off-street spots on Park Avenue. It’s a few blocks’ walk from there to work, but not bad for free parking.
That end of Park is fascinating because the brick street was never repaved. Parts of the city are like that, and it’s …
Kelly’s birthday and Mt. CEC
These pictures are from work. We received an e-mail telling us not to be alarmed if we saw men rappelling down the building. And, indeed, there were people rappelling down our building, checking the condition of the marble.
I can has justice?
Justice for kitteh.
TROY — A 45-year-old city man will spend a year in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday in Rensselaer County Court to kicking his 6-week-old kitten, Creamsicle, to death in June.
Dennis Christensen of 407 First St. pleaded guilty to animal cruelty, a misdemeanor, when he appeared before County Judge Patrick J. McGrath.
McGrath immediately sentenced Christensen …
Posting roll
These are AMAZING. Especially by the staid standards of state library program marketing initiatives. Holy COW.
Edit: Oops, the mudflap image is already causing a minor feminist whin– er, uproar. Apparently it’s anti-feminist to tweak familiar images to get people’s attention.
Afternoon odds and ends
The Times-Union is conducting an interesting experiment in blogs. In addition to less formal articles written by their regular writers and reporters, they’ve brought on people from the community to write about a variety of subjects. One of their blogs on religious topics is written by Fr. Dennis Tamburello of Siena College. …