| Smitecast - Show 24 |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|12:14 am] |
Smitecast
Show 24 - "Socialist Networking"
November 14, 2009 (61:00)
http://bigassradio.blogspot.com/
For the first time in recent memory, Randy does Smitecast alone.
So, it's largely a recap of news stories from this week and Randy's reactions to them...but there is also a good, solid bashing of the Obama administration and music from Robert Lund, Chris Waffle, The Great Luke Ski, Ted Knight, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, The Topsiders, Was (Not Was), Les Dantz, and Steve Goodie.
There is also a bit of attempted comedy that would get Randy soooo competely fired if this aired on radio. God bless the internet.
iTunes:
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| Floury |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:27 pm] |
I am writing this, sitting at coffee shop in midtown Sacramento, sipping some kind of cold, blended coffee concoction, and listening gleefully as the music system plays a whole bunch of songs from the 80’s. It’s like I’ve time-traveled back to high school, except that back then I would never have been caught dead lurking in a coffee shop, and back then I was doing all my writing in spiral-bound five-subject notebooks, scribbling all my stories down by hand. Considering the state of my handwriting (possibly I should have gone into medicine, is what I’m saying here), it’s probably a good thing that eventually I switched over to typing. Much better to be able to read what I wrote when I look back at it later.
This was the first week of my reduced work schedule, and today was my first of several months of every Friday off. So Richard went off to work and I stayed home and kicked off my first ‘furlough Friday’ by curling up under the comforter in bed, with a stack of books and some sleepy kittens and a fresh cup of coffee, and spending several blissful hours doing nothing remotely productive. Lovely!
Ever since I got that notice at work last week I’ve been slowly building up a list of Things To Do, now that I am going to have all this extra spare time. This list includes all kinds of exciting (ha) things, like cleaning the baseboards downstairs, and going outside and yanking out all the old, dead cherry tomato plants and putting in some onions and garlic, or finally getting around to organizing the barely contained disaster zone that is the random storage and yarn closet. So naturally, today, I did not do a single one of those things. Instead, after I polished off two paperbacks and the last of my coffee, I dragged out my recipe folder and lined up the flour and sugar and eggs and my trusty Kitchenaid mixer, and spent the majority of the day having myself a little baking orgy. I made double chocolate chip scones, and dough for pretzels, and one and a half dozen French rolls. I made a pizza with homemade white whole wheat dough and some of the tomato sauce I canned this summer. I took another reading break and worked my way through one more paperback (and people wonder why I take out books from the library a dozen at a time), and then went back into the kitchen and sterilized some jars and lids and canned seven pints of apple butter. And then I finished it all off by whipping up a lasagna, because I have been wanting one for quite some time now, but never had quite enough energy (or time) to get it all together until today.
Nanowrimo update: 18,244 words so far, but I took a break to do a bit of blogging, and I suspect we’ll be here at the coffee shop for another hour or so. I am going to err on the side of optimism and say that while I doubt I will be caught up completely to where I should be, there is a very good chance I could actually break 20,000 words before I go home tonight. We shall see.
Originally published at A Cat By Any Other Name. Please leave any comments there. |
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| Nightly buzz |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:37 pm] |
I have been feeling a bit adrift in my novel lately. It’s not that I don’t have any words left to type, a fact which means I’m doing significantly better than the last time I tried this (back in 2003) when I am not sure I even managed to crack 5,000 words before I gave up. No, the problem is exactly what I was worried about – that if I try to write at home, it is too easy to get distracted by all the other things I’d rather be doing.
Luckily, I’m not the only one feeling this way. One of the other Sacramento Nanowrimoers posted a note to the forums, wondering if anyone else wanted to get together for an impromptu write-in. I checked with Richard to see if he was interested, and then posted a quick “Me, me!” reply. So after we both got home from work and had dinner, we packed up our laptops and headed off to the Peet’s coffee shop in midtown. If I have gained nothing else from this month, I have at least significantly increased my familiarity with WiFi enabled coffee houses within a few miles from the house.
It turned out to be only four of us, but it was a nice group to be sitting and typing with. We chatted and drank coffee and compared word counts, and then it was time for Richard and I to leave because I finally got the text message I had been waiting for, and needed to go drop off some music to a string quartet. So off we went, awkwardly, since in the process of packing up, one of the others accidentally spilled his coffee and lots of it landed on me. Luckily it had had time to cool, and no coffee landed on laptops or coats or bags, and it was getting time for me to wash some clothes anyway, so it was actually kind of an amusing way to exit.
Music delivered, it was then time to go back home and watch Glee, a show for which we have both developed a deep and abiding love, if for no other reasons than to hear young performers with amazing voices perform things like this
Nanowrimo update: 16,832 words. I’m still a little behind, but I am not too concerned, mainly because I have come to two important realizations about my novel. The first is that it turns out that I started my story in the middle, and not at the beginning, which is not entirely surprising since I deliberately avoided any notion of plot or outline beforehand. And the second is that my main character is going to have to have a lot more horrible things happen to her, in the real beginning of the story, so that the place where the story is, right now, makes sense. Fun times, fun times.
Originally published at A Cat By Any Other Name. Please leave any comments there. |
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| The Bugcast - Episode 084 - LIVE |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|12:38 am] |
Episode 084 of The Bugcast is now ready for you to download or subscribe to.
Subway for dinner, illegal returns, the Podcrawl, and some great music!
Don’t forget to visit the redesigned website at thebugcast.org.
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| one light goes out, they all go out |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|03:38 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| [ | mood |
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| | songs from Glee | ] |
Great, first the Windows on the laptop crashes, now the iPod crashes.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. |
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| So today..... |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|12:21 am] |
I had some really crappy moments today. I really am not into anything at the moment. |
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| Six-eyes |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:30 pm] |
It occurred to me, a few months ago, that I only possess one pair of glasses. And frankly, considering Murphy’s law, and my own special brand of clumsiness, the fact that I have so far had nothing more disastrous happen to them than a broken nose pad, I was getting dangerously overdue for some kind of horrible glasses-related catastrophe. So the next time I had to get my glasses repaired (one of the lenses started popping out – no idea why) I had them check to see if I was due for a check-up and oops, apparently it’s been more than two years. And as long as I *have* all this lovely vision insurance, I really ought to be taking advantage of it.
I had my check-up last week, and my prescription is exactly the same as it was the last time I did this, so the whole ‘do this to get a back-up pair of glasses’ plan worked out nicely in my favor. I picked up the new pair this afternoon, and can now breathe a sigh of relief. Simply *having* an extra pair to fall back on means that this new pair will never, ever break. Now all I have to do is somehow avoid having my vision ever change again (do not speak to me of inevitable age-related presbyopia, I am not listening LA LA LA LA LA).
Nanowrimo update: Went to a write-in, drank Mexican hot chocolate, churned out a few thousand words. Still about 1000 behind where I really ought to be at this point in the month, and am starting to feel like writing this thing is kind of the same as slogging uphill through several feet of mud. However, according to all the cheerful pep-talk-emails the main Nanowrimo organization keeps sending out, this is perfectly normal for the second week of the project, and if I just keep at it, this, too, shall pass.
Originally published at A Cat By Any Other Name. Please leave any comments there. |
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| Denied |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
As I was driving to work this morning, and I turned onto the approach lane for the freeway, I caught sight of a bumper sticker on the SUV in front of me. It read “bad ass girl’s drive bad ass trucks”.
Naturally, the inappropriate use of an apostrophe to denote a plural amused me, so much that I even *cut someone off* in order to position myself directly behind the unsuspecting SUV driver (who, by the way, was male. Not that that’s relevant to the story, except that it just added to the hilarity I was feeling at that moment), and then I started to rummage in my purse in the hopes that somehow I could pull out my camera and snap a quick picture of the gross error in punctuation before the SUV driver and I both had to merge onto the freeway. Yes, yes, I know, distracted driving is wrong, but so is the inappropriate use of apostrophes!
Alas, by the time I had finally gotten my camera out and I inched my car a bit closer…and that’s when I finally could see that it wasn’t a punctuation error at all; it was simply that the ‘l’ in ‘girls’ had been partially scraped off.
So…bah. Photographic mockery denied. Sigh. Stupid reality, taking away all the fun.
Nanowrimo update: Same as yesterday (see last week’s entry regarding “writing” and “Mondays”).
Originally published at A Cat By Any Other Name. Please leave any comments there. |
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| Episode 154: Evil Moose Sounds |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|06:11 pm] |
The Nightsound Show is a veritable cornucopia of local and independent music, literature, philosophy, spirituality, culture, comedy, and politics. It is a magazine for your ears, fueled by your submissions. And in this open forum we will delve into the unknown and the mundane with as much geeky and entertaining over-analysis as unpretentiously as possible.
Episode 154: Evil Moose SoundsTo download, click HERE. In this episode:- What's Chris's Halloween costume?
- Real ghost stories from people on the street.
- Quoth the Parrot, "Shut Up Bitch"
- Is Halloween about racism?
- Community Badass: Cindy Higgins, psychic and medium
- Flashback: Hugh's ghost story from Ghostsound 2008
- Roy tells about being a part of a church that communicates with spirits
- "The Birds" a poem by Preston Bounds
- The Nightsound Studios Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)
Featuring music from: Submit your music, literature, and opinions to radio@nightsound.com.
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| The consequences of world domination. |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|12:33 am] |
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Originally published at lib schooled.. You can comment here or there. Last week, to put it succinctly, was the week from hell.
I left for St. Louis to present at a conference on Wednesday, came home mid-afternoon Friday only to immediately head to the Fox Theatre with Justin to see Bob Dylan play Friday night. Saturday morning, after dropping Wednesday off at the dog boarders, we drove to Kalamazoo to see our friends Lauren and Eric get married. Sunday, after a pit stop at IKEA, we headed home where I was able to finally couch for the first time, it seemed, in weeks.
I only checked email twice on Monday. Twice! Clearly, I was tired and overworked.
Justin and I have been having a lot of conversations on what’s going to happen with me when on-campus classes are done for me in May (I’ll still be doing a few online classes for the summer session): I’ll be out of a job (the graduate program kicks students off of student assistantships after 36 credit hours and I hit 42 or 44 May 2010), Justin and I are getting married (to get health benefits – srsly), we’re moving somewhere but we’re not sure where. And then there is the honeymoon to contend with (UK? Italy? For how long?). In a short amount of time, a lot of stuff is going to be happening and I can’t plan for it because it is all dependent on whether or not I get a job offer and if so, where I’m going. And on top of that, if I don’t get a job offer, where do we move to? Justin has the luxury of telecommuting, and I know that if I can’t find a job in X time, he will support me, but I don’t want to have to do that.
It’s called having to pay $900/month in student loans, muthafucker. (”Down with your bourgeois education,” Justin says.)
So then it goes back to, “What do you want to do! What do you want to do with your life!” and of course, “world domination” doesn’t necessarily pay the bills.
In all seriousness though, I stacked my interests and my work experience in the last two years to make myself as marketable as possible. I’ll have 18 months of academic librarianship under my belt, along with having presented at a conference, certification in archival work coupled with practicum experience, digital librarianship, special projects I’ve worked on with professors plus my own incredibly varied background.
I’m awesome and I know that.
One thing I keep musing on is just how far and to what extent I want to make librarianship and archival work my life — because I know me well enough to know that I will rabble rouse and want to change the world (I’ve already started that on campus here with the creation of a new student group that I did with three other students this summer), and while there are many incredibly awesome librarians and archivists out there who do similar rabble rousing things, the profession as a whole can be and is to some extent, incredibly backward and staid. As a student, looking at the work being done typically sums up one thing — that everything has to be committed to death and with that comes the death of innovation and moving forward.
But as par usual, I’m digressing.
As it stands, in addition to my course work and 20 hours of ref desk pimpin’, I currently am doing the following:
- President, ASIS&T,Wayne State student chapter.
- Vice President and co-founder, Progressive Librarians’ Guild, Wayne State student chapter.
- Communications chair, Graduate Employees’ Organizing Committee, Wayne State.
- Member, virtual reference committee for new technologies, Wayne State Library system.
- Digital technologies librarian liaison, various roles/responsibilities 1.
I can see my life going in a variety of directions, and I know that I’m flexible enough with my skillset that if I don’t like how one way goes, I can totally switch it to another. The problem, however, is that I’m not quite sure if I want to be a rabble rouser anymore — my own work and interests seem to get pushed to the side because when I take on something, I like to think I give it 110% of my focus – and I know it is because of this that makes me so good at what I do.
Writing, for example, has gone to the way side. Not just missing a few days or a few weeks but it’s been since MAY since I’ve posted anything to this or my LiveJournal account, which I even barely check anymore. My other domain, biblyotheke.net is to represent my “professional portfolio” and that’s not even been tweaked with since I installed Indexhibit on it a few weeks ago.
The quandary I’m having is not only how I want to live my life, but how to live my life and make it meaningful. How do I balance a husband, a future family, a career and personal interests while giving myself Lisa-time? What type of jobs should I start looking for? Should I sell out? Consult? Write the “Great American Novel”? Do I want to work 60hrs a week and push family and personal life aside (like my mom)? And if my school involvement right now is any indicator, it can end up like that.
Because I find it incredibly difficult to say “No.”
1. I have not discussed with my freelance employers what I can and cannot post about my work for them, so for now, they remain anonymous. |
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| oh, your hair is beautiful tonight |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:59 pm] |
Auctionhousing—how I make all my money in WoW.
First, basics.
Download Auctioneer. Run "get all" scans for a few weeks before you try to do anything.
This will help you sell those blues and greens that have been collecting dust in your bags or that, even worse, you've been gasp underpricing.
Advanced:
Take a look at a market. I've been doing this for a while, but my main markets are enchanting and herbs.
For example, I know that if I disenchant any armor or weapon selling in the lvl 35-45 range, I will possibly get a greater nether essence which sells for 15g. Auctioneer takes care of the math, all you have to do is buy what it tells you and disenchant it.
Like in this picture. See, math all taken care of.
It helps if you have some basic economics training, or you'll lose money to begin with and lose big. Actually sometimes I still lose money, but with proper use of auctioneer, it's very difficult.
Any questions? |
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| Rough day.... |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:39 pm] |
My mood has been fluctuating all day. Borderline depressed, but starting to feel better. |
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