This is a patchwork of all my little thoughts,
sewn together in the blogosphere.
Happy quilting.
Wow, copyright lot is hatt. Hatt like Paris Hilton.
Jessie Whats-his-face went ape-shit today on Metro Morning, Michael Geist has said this bill ”turns librarians into locksmiths” and the CLA is sending hate mail to Industry Canada.
So exciting! You can see the facts sheets here:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/Home
3 weeks ago
School is FINALLY over. FINALLY.
I pulled several all-nighters to gitt’er done, but make no mistake - this is not because the work was hard. It is because I am the worst procrastinator on the face of the planet. I thought that bad part of me has been shed, like the skin of a snake, left behind with my other juvenile behaviours, from wearing socks more than once, to making coy eyes at boy-hipsters on the bus (*shudder*).
Alas, the sweet weather combined with my general distaste for required courses (I’s a grown up, let me pick ma own classes), was a toxic cocktail that left me feeling deflated and then guilty for spending an entire day infront of the computer doing nothing except reading blogs and mucking around on stupid facebook. Somehow I pulled through though, and glory, glory, glooooory be.
Now I’ve got to go get a job or something.
2 months agoSchool is pretty stressful at the moment - I pulled an (almost) all-nighter Monday to get a presentation/paper done. The topic was Gay and Lesbian Legal Studies, and while the Gay and Lesbian is cool, the Legal Studies is BO-ring.
Three more papers over the next nine days and I am freeeeeeeeeee.
AND: I have successfully booked two sets of flights.
#1 - A trip to beautiful, seaside Halifax. I have wanted to go FOREVER, like more than I want to go to Mexico, or outerspace. Scottie-so-hottie is my partner in crime and I imagine our vaca as a geriatric paradise: historical site-seeing, a visit to the tall ships and maybe some gambling at the new casino. We’re like a wholesome 65 year old couple!
#2 - NYC BABY. With the edgiest person I know: My Ma. She’s still a bit crazier than all my friends, and the woman doesn’t even drink. Or do drugs (though my brother and I tried to convince her to hot box the bathroom once, and she pulled the “I have asthma” line and we were all, “Fuck Ma, you’ve gone square in a big way, drugs are cool. Hey, you got any Oxycodone left over from your hysterectomy?” And she mourned the loss of humanity’s innocence). A benefit of travelling with a parent is that people with financial security have a ridiculous concept of “needs”. We “need” to stay at an au-minimum-four-star-hotel. We “need” to see a Broadway show. We “need” to be in Upper West Side Manhattan.
As long as you feel the “need” to pay for all this, I support you. My idea of fancy is clean sheets at the hostel and breakfast that didn’t dispense itself from a candy machine.
Ok, must go write three amazing papers of brillance and awesomeness.
kthnxbai.
3 months agoAfter two months of computer screen all day, sushi for dinner, beer, sleep, I decided to join the Fresh Air Fitness Challenge!!!!!!!
So I bought a bunch of organic food (thanks Scott!), and I go swimming a few times a week. It’s pretty amazing.
I don’t necessarily feeeeel better, but I feel more sanctimonous for eating organic and being like, “Oh, it’s time for my workout! Bye guys!”
Which is really what personal health is all about, non?
3 months ago
OHIP Poos on Pallett, NDP Picks Up ShovelWow.
Nothing like finding out your a freakin’ drone of a stereotype to start the weekend off right.
I discovered http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
(two white people told me about it).
Many of them made me go, “Ohhhh MAN! White people are so lame. I don’t like wine. Or natural medicine. I’m so different than all the other white people!”
But then I read #19 - Travelling. And #57 - Juno. I really like those things.
And I was like, “Aw man. I’m a freakin’ stereotype in the worst way. I’m so bummed, I’m gonna go blog about this.”
(I’m only guessing that “blogging” is going to show up on the website in the new few days).
4 months ago
This is my boyfriend Scott when he plays his new NBA XBox Game.
Thank you Tasha for introducing me to the lovely site from which I stole the fotog.
5 months agoAn article came down the RSS feed shoot this morning (at 12:30am… Blake from LIS News - it is Christmas. Stop blogging), that I found interesting.
It discusses Google’s potential next moves, in its bid to take over the world - err… help us get the information we really want. I’m no business analyst, but luckily, this ain’t Forbes.com, so I will express my thoughts on this Internet-media-giant, free from the constraints of journalistic integrity (You can’t even POST your complaints here! I’m drunk with POWER!). OK, thoughts.
1) The article suggests that Google will move into more conventional forms of media - radio and television. Remember those predictions that older media would meet their ultimate demise at the hands of the Interweb? It seems such doomsday theories are largely untrue. The two have simply joined together in a symbiotic relationship to make both sides even richer than before! Hoorah for billionaires in a counry without public health care! Ite seems though, that TV and radio aren’t going away. Arguably they’re getting more dynamic and interactive through use of the web rather than being swollowed up by its digital ways.
On a similar, but utterly unrelated note, Scott and I rented a car with Sirius satellite radio and it is SO awesome. We listened to “The Verge”, and they had interviews with Fiest, the Arcade Fire and Hot Hot Heat all in one DAY. I think that is evidence enough that we should all
2) I really like Googling things. You don’t necessary have to spell words correctly, it offers alternative spellings in its hits… Basically its search algorithms are really sophisticated and make finding stuff - newspaper articles, brown leather boots, porn, whatever - really easy. The more basic of these algorithms are available publicly.
And yet.
The U of T catalogue remains an utterly useless device in finding anything within the collection. The monolith that is UTL is an inpentrable wall, despite the incredible accessibility it COULD provide with the right tools… A bloody shame, really.
Folks, take a cue from the *gasp* private industry and make the collection a thing of beauty and not just a monstrosity of illogically littered items.
6 months ago
