From the monthly archives:

May 2008

the survey says…

28 May 2008

Right now the Library Research Service is conducting a survey on the worth of an MLIS. (I got in mine 1996.)
For the final comment I had to sum up my thoughts about my experince in the little box at the bottom of the survey. I said:
As a professional degree an MLIS is terribly perishable. The [...]

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the value of free speech

27 May 2008

Mostly I find the comments on the larger blogs to be so much me-to-ism but this afternoon I came across this comment on a post about a silly anti-non-Christian (yes i made that word up) advertisement used by a California car dealership that was in boing-boing.
One of the greatest gifts of truly understanding the notion [...]

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Garden Report

23 May 2008

We’re building a lot of stone walls this year. When we first had the lawns and beds installed we didn’t have the time and money to build the bed walls that we wanted so we used the black plastic edging to keep the grass out of the beds (sort of) This year we’re replacing the [...]

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