Quotable Friday 20 Jul 2013 | 04:07 am

“When he was done, more than three-quarters of his page still remained to be filled between the gold lion on the crimson shield on top and the blank white shield at the bottom. Ser Gerold Hightower ha...

Community-a-Thon 18 Jul 2013 | 06:59 am

“I think if you say stop, he’ll say Hammertime.” -Dean Pelton on Community, “Football, Feminism, and You” (season 1, episode 6) Now that I have my tickets set, it’s time to make sure that all you lo...

The Story of My Life 17 Jul 2013 | 03:19 am

I have to keep telling my spam blocker that my own email is a trusted address, but my spam blocker doesn’t believe me and keeps blocking the emails I send myself. Put another way, I run a major cultu...

A Year of Library Directing, or The Value of Useful Things 10 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm

“Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.” -Anne Lamott in “Oh Noraht Noraht” in Plan B: Further Thoughts on ...

Quotable Tuesday 9 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm

“Everything that’s happened to you so far you have not been able to predict. That’s how it’s always been. Just stay open.” -Sarah Silverman on WTF with Marc Maron Podcast (Episode 116)

Getting By With a Lot of Help from My Friends 8 Jul 2013 | 04:19 pm

Farida made a decal to help encourage me as I get ready for my first 5K, which I’ll be running in two weeks. (Why a flamingo? There’s a story. It involves fairies and maybe only makes sense to four pe...

Quotable Maxwell 7 Jul 2013 | 09:18 am

“I have sand in places that I didn’t even know I had places.”

Film Club: Much Ado About Jeff’s Quiz 6 Jul 2013 | 08:32 am

I saw Much Ado About Nothing yesterday, and it did not disappoint me. I think it was John who said that setting Shakespeare in contemporary times makes him nervous, but this nerdy Shakespeare-loving E...

Reunited with My Laptop 4 Jul 2013 | 08:18 am

I was sick and missed a couple days of work before I left on my trip to Chicago, and I really got to missing HPL while I was gone. So even though I got home at 1:00 in the morning, I got myself up mid...

Wherever You Go, There You Are 28 Jun 2013 | 05:47 am