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 […]

Read the full article →

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 […]

Read the full article →

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 […]

Read the full article →